California Statewide Ballot Measures 2026

Supports authorizing $11.25 billion in state general obligation bonds, with $10 billion for affordable rental housing and homeownership programs and $1.25 billion for veterans' farm, home, and mobilehome purchase assistance.

Opposes the bond issue, leaving these programs without the new bond funding.

Supports changing required deposits into the state's rainy-day fund, raising the cap on its balance from 10% to 20% of General Fund tax proceeds, and excluding reserve deposits from the state spending limit.

Keeps the current deposit rules and 10% cap on the Budget Stabilization Account.

Supports making permanent the 2012 voter-approved tax rates on high incomes now set to expire in 2031, with revenues allocated 89% to K-12 schools and 11% to community colleges.

Opposes the extension, letting those tax rates expire in 2031 as scheduled under current law.

Supports allowing public funds for campaign financing when candidates accept spending limits and strict qualifying criteria, and increasing penalties for prohibited foreign contributions in connection with ballot measures and elections.

Keeps current law, which does not provide this public campaign financing framework.

Supports eliminating the successor election when a state officer is recalled, leaving the office vacant until filled under existing law, with the Lieutenant Governor finishing the term if a Governor is recalled.

Keeps the current recall process, in which voters choose a successor on the same recall ballot.

Supports authorizing up to $25 billion in bonds to fund fixed-rate second mortgages of up to 17% of the purchase price for eligible middle-income buyers of qualified new homes, repaid by homeowners' mortgage payments rather than the State.

Opposes creating the bond-funded home loan program.

Supports authorizing $8.4 billion in state general obligation bonds for immunology and immunotherapy research at a University of California-affiliated nonprofit institute and through grants to public or nonprofit universities and institutions.

Opposes the research bond issue.

Supports requiring government-issued identification at the polls (or the last four digits of a government-issued ID number for mail ballots), state-provided voter ID cards on request, and annual reporting of citizenship-verification rates.

Keeps California's current voter identification and verification rules unchanged.

Supports imposing a one-time tax of up to 5% on taxpayers and trusts with covered assets valued over $1 billion, with 90% of revenues for health care and 10% for food assistance or education-related programs.

Opposes imposing the one-time tax.

Supports requiring pre-election and recurring audits of programs funded by new statewide special taxes, and prohibiting new state taxes that exclude their revenues from the voter-approved state spending limit.

Keeps current law, which does not require these audits or impose that restriction.

Supports prohibiting new state taxes on the ownership or control of personal property, including retirement accounts, financial assets, and business interests, and barring retroactive state taxes enacted or taking effect from 2026 on.

Keeps the state's existing constitutional rules on what taxes may be enacted.

Supports requiring two-thirds voter approval for local special taxes, including those proposed by citizen initiative, beginning in 2027, and prohibiting local ad valorem property taxes except as already provided in the constitution.

Keeps the current voter-approval rules for local special taxes.

Supports requiring nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Centers to spend at least 90% of revenue on program services advancing their charitable purpose rather than management and overhead, with monetary penalties for noncompliance.

Keeps current law, which sets no such 90% spending requirement.

Supports amending CEQA to expedite environmental review for specified project categories, including most housing, transportation, water, health, and clean energy projects, with deadlines for review and limits on court review of approvals.

Keeps the current CEQA review process and court review rules unchanged.