Proposition 6 [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2024 - Proposition  6 changes the Constitution to ban involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime. It also bans state prisons from disciplining people who refuse to work. However, Proposition  6 states it does not stop prisons from giving people time credits for working.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=6&year=2024

Research and development involving certain psychedelic substances (Amendment #1). [Ballot]

Sep 7, 2023 - The bond funds are intended primarily to support R &D, with no more than 6  percent of total bond funds allowed for administrative costs. The measure would provide the TREAT Institute with an initial $6  million General Fund loan so it could commence its operations, followed by annual General Fund loans of $150  million if the first bonds are not sold in the first fiscal year following passage of the initiative.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-013

Managed care organization tax. [Ballot]

Oct 27, 2023 - Because the measure does not change the structure of the most recently approved MCO tax, it likely would not affect the amount of tax proceeds generated through 2026 ($6 billion to $9 billion each year) for the recently enacted MCO tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-024

Proposition 28 [Ballot]

Nov 8, 2022 - State law requires schools to provide instruction in visual and performing arts (including music) to all students in grades 1 through 6. State law also requires schools to offer such courses in grades 7 and 8 as electives.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=28&year=2022

Funding for arts and music education in schools. [Ballot]

Dec 21, 2021 - Background State Has 6  Million Public School Students. Public schools are operated primarily by local education agencies (LEAs) —school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education. In 2020-21, California ’s public schools enrolled just over 6  million students from Transitional Kindergarten through grade 12.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-036

Funding for students attending private schools. [Ballot]

Oct 13, 2021 - California law requires all children between the ages of 6 and 18 to attend a public school, private school, or homeschool. These options are organized into kindergarten and grades 1 through 12 (K-12).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-011

Funding for students attending private schools. [Ballot]

Nov 2, 2023 - In percentage terms, the reduction would range from 6  percent to 10  percent of total Proposition  98 funding for public schools ($1,100 to $1,700 per student). Adding private school students to the Proposition  98 calculation, however, could increase the minimum requirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-026

Funding for students attending private schools and homeschool. [Ballot]

Sep 27, 2021 - California law requires all children between the ages of 6 and 18 to attend a public school, private school, or homeschool. These options are organized into kindergarten and grades 1 through 12 (K-12).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-006

Taxing very high-income taxpayers and dedicating revenues to pandemic prevention. [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2021 - These agencies —which include school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools —currently enroll about 6 million students. The California Department of Education oversees and supports local educational agencies by collecting data, allocating funding, and providing technical assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-022

Raising the personal income taxes for certain households to fund zero-emission vehicle programs and wildfire-related activities. [Ballot]

Dec 27, 2021 - Of this amount, 75  percent would go to CalFire for such things as (1)  hiring and training firefighters; (2)  purchasing wildfire detection and monitoring systems; (3)  improving fire suppression and safety infrastructure; (4)  improving defensible space; (5)  retrofitting homes in low-income communities to make them less likely to catch fire (referred to as home hardening); and (6)  expanding forest resilience programs, such as prescribed fires and forest thinning.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-037