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

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

Proposition 50 [Ballot]

Nov 4, 2025 - This would result in one-time costs to counties of up to a few million dollars statewide and one-time costs to the state of roughly $200,000 . The state amount is much less than one-tenth of 1 percent (0.1  percent) of the state ’s roughly $220  billion General Fund budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=50&year=2025

Public sector unions and collective bargaining. [Ballot]

Sep 28, 2021 - Often, retirees receive a cost-of-living adjustment each year to at least partially offset erosions in purchasing power resulting from inflation. For example, the rate of accrual for a typical state worker hired before 2007 who retires at the age of 55 years is 2 percent per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-008

Congressional districts in California. [Ballot]

Dec 29, 2025 - Accordingly, if the measure were approved by voters in November 2026, it likely would result in minimal costs to counties of less than a few hundred thousand dollars statewide to revert back to the Commission ’s 2021 Congressional maps.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-031

California labor law violations. [Ballot]

Nov 23, 2021 - Prior to 2004, employees could seek unpaid wages from their employer by filing a lawsuit in court to recover the wages (as they still can today), but they could not seek additiona l penalties in these cases because only state agencies were authorized to assess penalties.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-027

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

Property tax rules for inherited property. [Ballot]

Jan 21, 2026 - Beginning in 2027, the measure would allow age-eligi ble homeowners to request an exemption from their county assessor if they have lived in the home for five years or lived in the state for ten years.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-035

New tax on the wealth of billionaires. [Ballot]

Dec 11, 2025 - Several of the wealthiest people in the world live in California. Wealth is the value of all the things a person has come to own over their lifetime. Wealth is different from incom e, which is how much a person earns in a set period of time, like one year.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-024

Child custody and juvenile dependency. [Ballot]

Oct 28, 2021 - Physical custody refers to whom the child lives with. If two people have joint physical custody, then the child lives with both individuals. An individual with sole physical custo dy lives with the child all or most of the time.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-019