Congressional districts in California. [Ballot]

Dec 29, 2025 - The 2021 maps were used in the 2022 and 2024 congressional elections. Proposition  50 (2025). In November 2025, California voters approved Proposition  50, replacing the 2021 maps with new legislatively drawn congressional district maps (Proposition  50 maps).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-031

Peace officer use of force. [Ballot]

Oct 12, 2021 - Peace officers can also be sued in federal court. However, federal courts have ruled that peace officers have certain immunities that limit their liability to such lawsuits. For example, if officers did not violate a person ’s clearly established constitutional right with their actions, the officers cannot be sued in federal court for those actions.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-010

Housing assistance program for certain University of California employees. [Ballot]

Oct 27, 2025 - Created in 2022, the California Dream for All (DFA) program offers down-payment assistance to first-time homebuyers with incomes below a certain level (150  percent of the area median income). The California Housing Finance Authority administers this program.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-018

Proposition 50 [Ballot]

Nov 4, 2025 - Census and have been used since the 2022 congressional elections. PROPOSAL California ’s Congressional District Maps Use Legislatively Drawn Congressional District Maps Until After the Next Census. Proposition  50 replaces California ’s current congressional district maps with new, legislatively drawn maps.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=50&year=2025

Public access to state and local government records (Amendment #1). [Ballot]

Sep 21, 2023 - Additionally, government entities would incur technology and storage costs to retain public and legislative records for five years, as well as to manage and search su ch records. A portion of these costs could be higher in the short run.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-015

Gaming. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2023 - These compacts can also require gaming tribes make certain payments, su ch as to non-gaming tribes, the state, and local governments. However, federal courts have issued rulings that payments to state and local governmental entities should generally be limited to the amount necessary to cover their regulatory costs, compensation to mitigate the negative impacts of gaming, distribution to other tribes, and other costs related to gaming activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-030

Child custody and juvenile dependency. [Ballot]

Oct 28, 2021 - To the extent that the measure results in a su bstantial number of jury trials for jurisdictional hearings, these costs could potentially reach the low millions of dollars annually. However, some or all of the county costs resu lting from increased workload could potentially be shifted to the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-019

Creating a new online university administered by the University of California (UC). [Ballot]

Dec 26, 2023 - In 2022-23, approximately 15 percent of UC undergraduate courses were taught using an online or hybrid format. (Comparable data is not available for UC graduate courses.) In 2022-23, approximately one-third of CSU instruction was provided using an online or hybrid format.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-034

Child Custody and Juvenile Dependency. [Ballot]

Mar 17, 2021 - To the extent that the measure results in a su bstantial number of jury trials for jurisdictional hearings, these costs could potentially reach the low millions of dollars annually. However, some or all of the county costs resu lting from increased workload could potentially be shifted to the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-001

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

Dec 27, 2021 - This includes programs to promote light-duty ZEVs (such as cars and passenger trucks), medium-duty ZEVs (su ch as delivery vans), heavy-duty ZEVs (such as large commercial trucks), and off-road equipment (such as agricultural equipment).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-037