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

Oct 20, 2025 - In 2016, voters approved Proposition  55 to extend these higher rates until 2030. The top 2  percent of California taxpayers pay these higher rates. These taxpayers pay about half of all state income taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-016

Local land use planning and zoning. [Ballot]

Sep 1, 2023 - State laws enacted since 2016 that would be affected by this measure aimed to reduce barriers to housing de velopment. If cities and counties adopt zoning and land use laws that restrict housing development, housing costs could increase and potentially constrain economic growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-011

Climate change. [Ballot]

Sep 1, 2023 - (The state met this goal in 2016.) The state updated the limit in 2016 to 40  percent below 1990 levels by 2030, and further reduced it in 2022 to an objective of at least 85  percent below 1990 emissions levels by 2045.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-012

Personal finance education. [Ballot]

Oct 25, 2023 - In 2016-17 (the most recent year for which statewide data are available), less than 1 percent of high school students in California took a stand-alone personal finance course. No Specific Credentialing Requirements for Personal Finance Educators.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-022

Landfills. [Ballot]

Aug 22, 2023 - To further reduce methane emissions from landfills, a 2016 law required CalRecycle to adopt regulations that reduce statewide organic waste disposal in landfills to 75  percent of 2014 levels by 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-006

Water supply. [Ballot]

Oct 15, 2021 - For example, when California experienced a serious drought in 2012 through 2016, the state required cities to decrease their water use by 25  percent, and many farmers experienced significant reductions in the amount of water they could take from rivers and streams to water their crops.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-014

The extraction and recovery of oil and gas, as well as fossil fuel consumption. [Ballot]

Nov 23, 2021 - Legislation enacted in 2016 established the goals for California to reduce its GHG emissions to 40  percent below 1990 levels by 2030. In addition, legislation enacted in 2018 established a state policy that all retail electricity sold in California will be from renewable and ze ro-carbon resources by 2045.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-028

Funding for students attending private schools. [Ballot]

Oct 13, 2021 - The state currently is paying $2.6 billion annually related to five school bonds it sold between 1998 and 2016. Federal Funding. Most of the funding provided by the federal government supports three main activities: (1) serving meals to low-income students (primarily through the National School Lunch Program), (2) providing academic support and other services at low-income schools, and (3) educating students with disabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-011

Funding for students attending private schools and homeschool. [Ballot]

Sep 27, 2021 - The state currently is paying $2.6 billion annually related to five school bonds it sold between 1998 and 2016. Federal Funding. Most of the funding provided by the federal government supports three main activities: (1) serving meals to low-income students (primarily through the National School Lunch Program), (2) providing academic support and other services at low-income schools, and (3) educating students with disabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-006