Online sports wagering. [Ballot]

Oct 20, 2021 - This tax is applied to the amount a person bets. Additionally, the measure authorizes DOSBC to take va rious enforcement actions, including requiring people making such bets to register with DOSBC, requiring entities illegally offering online sports wagering to disclose the names of people who make wagers with them, and blocking access to illegal sites accepting sports wagers.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-017

Gaming. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2023 - Banking games generally involve players betting against the “house, ” who is a participant in the game with an interest in the outcome, and percentage games generally involve the house receiving a percentage of the money involved in the game.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-030

Tribal gaming. [Ballot]

Dec 27, 2021 - For those under the state law framework, the measure authorizes CGCC to develop and implement various regulations —such as the types of bets that can be offered, licensing requirements, and consumer protection requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-039

Sports wagering. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2023 - At minimum, these regulations must limit wagering to (1) bets made by people age of 21 and older; (2) professional or college sporting events that do not include animals other than horses; and (3) amateu r sporting events that do not include children under the age of 18.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-031

California gaming activities. [Ballot]

Oct 1, 2021 - Banking games generally involve players betting against the “house, ” who is a participant in the game with an interest in the outcome, and percentage games generally involve the house receiving a percentage of money involved in the game.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-009

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

Jan 20, 2026 - For example, some public benefit corporations commit their m issions to environmental sustainability, public health, or improving access to essential services. This applies only to companies that affirmatively elect to operate as public bene fit corporations.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-033

Voting in California. [Ballot]

Sep 4, 2025 - In total, we estimate that the range of possible costs on state and local governments fro m the measure could be (1)  one-time costs of tens of millions of dollars and (2)  ongoing annual costs of between tens of millions of dollars and the low hundreds of millions of dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-007

Involuntary Servitude [Ballot]

Jun 9, 2021 - For example, if it is determined that paying people with inmate jobs less than the state ’s minimum wage constitutes involuntary servitude, the state and local governments would be required to raise most inmate wages significantly and/or hire additional staff to perfor m the work instead of inmates.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-003

Minimum wage. [Ballot]

Jan 24, 2022 - (Self-employed people, including independent contractors, generally are exempt from m inimum wage laws.) Federal law sets an hourly minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. California ’s minimum wage currently is $15  per hour for employers with 26 employees or more.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-043

Psilocybin legalization. [Ballot]

Jun 29, 2023 - The measure also allows people 21 years of age and over to cultivate psilocybin mushrooms subject to certain limitations, such as requiring the m ushrooms to not be publicly visible. These activities would generally remain illegal for people under the age of 21 who engage in them without parental consent.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-004