Immunology and immunotherapy. [Ballot]

Dec 17, 2025 - Medical R &D. Approximately 65 percent of medical R &D funding in the United States comes from private industry. The federal government is the next largest contributor, accounting for about 25 percent of R &D funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-026

Insurance regulation. [Ballot]

Nov 10, 2025 - For example, CDI would have one-time costs for rulemaking and ongoing costs to review waiver r equests from insurers. These costs could be paid by CDI charging insurers additional fees. Changes in Insurance Tax Revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-020

Oversight of certain public benefit artificial intelligence (AI) companies. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - For example, California-based companies could make changes to their r esearch, development, or investment decisions in response to the measure ’s oversight and compliance requirements. If such changes affect company profits or employment levels in California, it would affect state and local tax revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-033

Oversight of certain frontier artificial intelligence (AI) companies. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - For example, California-based companies could make changes to their r esearch, development, or investment decisions in response to the measure ’s oversight and compliance requirements. If such changes affect company profits or employment levels in California, it would affect state and local tax revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-034

Personal income tax rates for high-income taxpayers. [Ballot]

Oct 20, 2025 - About half of this spending is for K-12 schools, community colleges, and the state ’s public universities. (The amount spent on K-12 schools and community colleges is set by the State Constitution.) About another one-third of state spending is for health and huma n services programs, mainly for the state ’s health insurance program for low-income residents, Medi-Cal.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-016

Use of school, college, and university sex-segregated facilities and student participation in athletic programs and activities based on their gender identity. [Ballot]

Oct 17, 2023 - The measure defines biological sex as eithe r male or female, based on specified physiological and genetic attributes. Requires Sex-Segregated Facilities on School, College, and University Campuses Be Segregated Based on Biological Sex.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-019

Research and development involving certain psychedelic substances (Amendment #1). [Ballot]

Sep 7, 2023 - R &D Is Funded by a Few Main Sources. Both the private and public sectors fund R &D. Private businesses collectively contribute the greatest amount toward R &D. In 2021, businesses collectively contributed nearly 75  percent of the estimated $792  billion in R &D funding nationally.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-013

Felony sentencing. [Ballot]

Dec 14, 2021 - Under the measure, at least 40  percent of the money in the fund would be allocated to public K-12 schools and community colleges and would count toward the state ’s constitutionally required spending on education.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-035

Personal finance education. [Ballot]

Oct 25, 2023 - For example, state-level guidance for the r equired high school economics course specifies teachers could provide an overview of what a credit card is and how interest is calculated. Some schools offer a stand-alone personal finance course, while other schools incorporate personal finance topics in other elective courses (such as business).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-022

Funding for students attending private schools. [Ballot]

Oct 13, 2021 - Background California Has Nearly 6.6 Million K-12 Students. California law requires all children between the ages of 6 and 18 to attend a public school, private school, or homeschool. These options are organized into kindergarten and grades 1 through 12 (K-12).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-011