Artificial intelligence (AI) and child safety. [Ballot]

Dec 12, 2025 - Requires Schools to Ban Use of Internet-Enabled Devices During Instructional Time . The measure requires school governing boards to develop and adopt a policy prohibiting students from using all internet-enabled devices, including smartphones, during school time by July 1, 2027.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-025

Voting in California. [Ballot]

Oct 13, 2021 - This means t hat the measure would require both phases of the internet voting system (voting over the internet at a voting location and voting over the internet outside of a voting location) to be operational within two years of voters approving the measure.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-012

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

The state's initiative, referendum, and recall processes. [Ballot]

Aug 22, 2023 - Within six months from this measure 's approval by voters, the Secretary of State would be required to develop a system that allows voters to view initiative, referendum, and recall petitions on a statewide internet website and do either of the following: (1) electronically sign the petition (with necessary identifying information) via that website or (2) download, print, and sign a petition document in the "portable document format " (known as PDF).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-007

Social media platforms. [Ballot]

Feb 6, 2024 - A social media platform is generally defined as an internet-based application or service that allows users to connect and interact with each other on the platform. Users connect and interact on the platform by, for example, posting content or sending messages using one or more of its features.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-035

The state's initiative, referendum, and recall processes. [Ballot]

Sep 27, 2021 - Within six months from this measure 's approval by voters, the Secretary of State would be required to develop a system that allows voters to view initiative, referendum, and recall petitions on a statewide internet website and do either of the following: (1) electronically sign the petition (with necessary identifying information) via that website or (2) download, print, and sign a petition document in the "portable document format " (known as PDF).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-007

Time limits, environmental reviews, and judicial reviews for certain types of infrastructure projects. [Ballot]

Dec 10, 2025 - The following types of projects —and their associated infrastructure —would be considered essential and eligible for the new processes: housing, water systems (not including Delta conveyance facilities), clean energy, medical treatment facilities, p ublic safety (including first responder facilities and wildfire risk reduction, but not including jails or prisons), broadband Internet access, education facilities, and transporta tion (not including high-speed rail).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-023

California Public Utilities Commission and wildfires. [Ballot]

Nov 3, 2021 - CPUC regulates certain telecommunications companies, including internet and telephone providers. Water. CPUC is responsible for regulating private water companies (water IOUs). Roughly 16 percent of Californians receive their water from a water IOU.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-020

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