Insurance regulation. [Ballot]

Nov 10, 2025 - The Insurance Commissioner would decide what home-hardening standards would need to be me t. An insurer could ask the Insurance Commissioner to waive this requirement if the insurer already covers a lot of homes in places with high wildfire risk.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-020

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - In January 2017, CCI was ended, effectively eliminating the 2012 MOE. In response to this elimination, a new county IHSS MOE was  established in July 2017 —referred  to as the 2017 IHSS MOE. Under the new 2017 IHSS MOE, the counties ’ share of IHSS costs were reset to roughly reflect the counties ’ share of estimated
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

Involuntary Servitude [Ballot]

Jun 9, 2021 - As such, the fiscal effects of the me asure on state and local governments are uncertain. If the measure is interpreted to allow all forms of work currently performed by people in the criminal justice system, it would have no direct fiscal effect on state or local gover nments.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-003

The 2026-2027 Budget: California Cannabis Control Appeals Panel Permanent Funding Request

Feb 11, 2026 - The panel was expanded to five persons by Chapter  27 of 2017 (SB  94, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review). Three of the panel members are appointed by the Governor and two are Legislative appointees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5119

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - To address this possibility, we estimate the age distribution again, this ti me only for workers who have lived in the U.S. for at least one decade. Figure  2 displays the results. These estimates are very similar to the numbers in Figure  1, indicating that recent immigration does not explain those age patterns.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/2

Attorney compensation in certain civil lawsuits. [Ballot]

Nov 29, 2021 - State law places limits on contingency fee agreements in a few civil cases, such as prohibiting them in family law cases and imposing limits on the contingency fee percentage in me dical malpractice cases.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-031

The rights of individuals to make “fully free and informed” health decisions. [Ballot]

Nov 18, 2021 - For example, the rights granted to people under this me asure would prevent other individuals and entities from requiring a person to make a particular health decision or treating a person differently based on their health decisions, in cluding whether to have any medical procedure done or to wear a device that restricts the person ’s breathing or senses (potentially including face masks or gloves).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-025

The 2022-23 Budget: Assessing Proposals to Address Unemployment Insurance Fraud

Feb 15, 2022 - The continued decline in new PUA claims after the state instituted ID. me —as shown in Figure  2 above —suggests that ID.me may have further reduced the viability of fraudulent claims. …But Took Other Actions Inconsistent With Strike Team Call to Reassess Stance on Fraud.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

Voting in California. [Ballot]

Oct 13, 2021 - Although the me asure requires that the system would be operational within two years, the system could take many years to complete. Based on other complex statewide IT systems, it could cost the s tate and local governments hundreds of millions of dollars to develop the system.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-012

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - Additional details about the mandate are as follows: Time Period in Question: November 10, 2010 to December 31, 2017. CSM ’s Estimated Statewide Cost to Reimburse Local Governments: Between $238,301 and $334,104.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054