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

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

Jan 20, 2026 - Recently enacted state law, effective January 1, 2026, establishes requirements for companies that develop or train highly capable “frontier ” AI systems —generally advanced AI models with significant computational scale or capabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-034

Nonprofit safety net health clinic expenses. [Ballot]

Sep 22, 2025 - Clinics also report the share of total expenses that advance the clinic ’s mission to provide primary care services to medically underserved groups (separate from the clinic ’s management and fundraising expenses).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-008

Immunology and immunotherapy. [Ballot]

Dec 17, 2025 - Many projects do not advance through all stages, as they may fail to meet safety, efficacy, or other regulatory standards along the way. Private and Public Sources Fund U.S. Medical R &D. Approximately 65 percent of medical R &D funding in the United States comes from private industry.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-026

Oversight of certain nonprofit charities and related entities. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - These costs would generally be paid by new revenue collected by fees or penalties authorized by the measure; however, there could be initial costs to the state General Fund, likely in the range of millions of dollars to tens of millions of dollars, to begin these efforts in advance of future revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-032

California Children’s Services (CCS) program. [Ballot]

Dec 12, 2023 - State law also requires DHCS to keep abreast of advances in medical sciences and consider whether to add qualifying diseases or services. Before changing its formal rules and guidance, DHCS must undertake a process to notify stakeholders.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-029

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

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