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

Jan 20, 2026 - The measure would have the following major fiscal effects: Increased state costs that would likely be in the tens of millions of dollars annually to establish and operate a new regulatory commission overseeing certain public benefit AI com panies.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-033

Proposition 36 [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2024 - Proposition  47 Reduced Punishments for Some Theft and Drug Crimes In 2014, Proposition  47 changed some theft and drug crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. For example, shoplifting (stealing items worth $950 or less from a store) and drug possession generally became misdemeanors.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=36&year=2024

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

California labor law violations. [Ballot]

Nov 23, 2021 - On the other hand, trial courts could receive an increased number of appeals of Labor Com missioner decisions or an increased number of class-action lawsuits or other civil filings that otherwise would have been pursued as PAGA lawsuits.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-027

Theft crimes. [Ballot]

Jan 12, 2022 - In November 2014, voters approved Proposition  47, which resulted in certain theft-related crimes being reduced from wobblers to misdemeanors. For example, under Proposition  47, petty theft (theft involving property worth $950 or less) is generally punished as a misdemeanor —rather than as a wobbler as was sometimes possible before (such as if a car was stolen).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-041

Drug and theft crimes. [Ballot]

Oct 11, 2023 - In November 2014, voters approved Proposition  47, which reduced penalties for certain drug and theft-related crimes. For example, prior to Proposition  47, possession of illegal drugs for personal use and shoplifting (stealing property worth $950 or less from a commercial establishment) could be punished as felonies.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-017

Tribal gaming. [Ballot]

Dec 27, 2021 - This is because a federal court previously determined that the payments required by certain tribal-state com pacts into the state ’s General Fund for use at the state ’s discretion generally were an illegal tax prohibited under federal law.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-039

Water supply. [Ballot]

Oct 15, 2021 - The measure directs CWC to prioritize funding for (1)  the completion of water storage projects for which CWC has already awarded some funding from a 2014 state water bond measure; (2)  projects being proposed by a public agency, special district joint powers authority, or public-private partnership; (3)  projects that could be completed within five years of being funded; (4)
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-014