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

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

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

Oct 20, 2025 - Voters approved Proposition  30 in 2012 to temporarily increase income tax rates on high-income taxpayers. In 2016, voters approved Proposition  55 to extend these higher rates until 2030. The top 2  percent of California taxpayers pay these higher rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-016

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

Public sector unions and collective bargaining. [Ballot]

Sep 28, 2021 - In 2012, the Legislature approved Chapter 296 (Furutani, AB 340), referred to as PEPRA. This legislation made a number of changes to state law intended to reduce future costs of pension benefits, including reducing pension benefits for state and local government employees hired after 2013 and establishing a standard that employees contribute one-half of the normal cost.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-008