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

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

Oct 20, 2025 - We estimate the measure would have the following major fiscal effects: Maintains $5  billion to $15  billion of annual state income taxes (in today ’s dollars) by making a tax on high income earners permanent instead of letting it expire in 2031.  
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-016

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

Affordable housing bonds. [Ballot]

Jan 3, 2022 - Today, an average California home costs 2.3 times the national average. Federal, state, and local governments fund and implement a variety of programs aimed at directly helping Californians, particularly  low-income  Californians, afford housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-040

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

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

Nov 5, 2021 - Although in use today, costliness and cert ain existing technological limitations currently prevent metagenomic sequencing from being used more widely for infectious disease detection and other purposes (such as improving scientific understanding of the non-pathogenic microorganisms that live in various environments).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-022

The extraction and recovery of oil and gas, as well as fossil fuel consumption. [Ballot]

Nov 23, 2021 - While some of these effects will occu r decades in the future, our estimates below are in today ’s dollars. Ending Extraction and Recovery of Oil and Gas Decreased State Revenues. Phasing out oil and gas production would likely reduce state revenues over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-028

Public sector unions and collective bargaining. [Ballot]

Sep 28, 2021 - Voters established the California state civil service in 1934 with the approval of what is today Article VII of the State Constitution. All state employees are in the civil service unless specifically exempted by the Constitution.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-008