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

Oct 20, 2025 - The top 2  percent of California taxpayers pay these higher rates. These taxpayers pay about half of all state income taxes. How Does the State Spend This Money? The state collects taxes from people and businesses and uses them to pay for services to the public.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-016

Local taxes. [Ballot]

Aug 14, 2025 - The specifically-designated transfer taxes are on top of a “base ” general-purpose transfer tax in those two cities. Vote Thresholds for Local Taxes. State law permits local governments to impose various other types of taxes with local voter approval.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-006

Local taxes. [Ballot]

Jul 1, 2025 - The specifically-designated transfer taxes are on top of a “base ” general-purpose transfer tax in those two cities. Vote Thresholds for Local Taxes. State law permits local governments to impose various other types of taxes with local voter approval.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-004

Local taxes. [Ballot]

Jul 1, 2025 - The specifically-designated transfer taxes are on top of a “base ” general-purpose transfer tax in those two cities. Vote Thresholds for Local Taxes. State law permits local governments to impose various other types of taxes with local voter approval.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-005

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

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

Dec 26, 2023 - To be eligible for UC admission, entering freshmen must have completed certain high school courses, generally have obtained high grade point averages (GPA), and generally rank among the top of their graduating high school class.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-034

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

Dec 27, 2021 - Top priority for CalFire funding must be given to hiring and training firefighters, and no more than 25  percent can be used for defensible space, home hardening, and forest resilience programs in the first six years.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-037

Raising taxes on certain corporations to fund zero-emission vehicle programs and wildfire-related activities. [Ballot]

Dec 27, 2021 - Top priority for CalFire funding must be given to hiring and training firefighters, and no more than 25  percent can be used for defensible space, home hardening, and forest resilience programs in the first six years.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-038

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