This bond issue would authorize the state to borrow $8.5 billion for K-12 schools and $1.5 billion for community colleges for construction and modernization.

Analysis: Prop 2 will cost taxpayers an estimated $18 billion when repaid with interest. A bond works like a government credit card—paying off that credit card requires the government to spend more of your tax dollars.

This constitutional amendment would redefine marriage in the California State Constitution.

Analysis: Gay marriage is already legal in the United States. California is one of just a few states that has no minimum age at which a person can enter into a marriage or a domestic partnership. Many in the public policy space have concerns that this proposition is too vague and would lead to the exploitation of children through underage marriages.

This bond issue would allow the state to borrow $3.8 billion for drinking water and groundwater programs, $1.5 billion for wildfire and forest programs and $1.2 billion for sea level rise.

Analysis: Bonds are the most expensive way to fund government spending. Water and wildfire mitigation are necessities, not luxuries. They should be budgeted for, not bonded. Mismanagement led to this crisis.

This constitutional amendment would make it easier for local governments to borrow money for affordable housing by lowering the voter approval requirement from two-thirds to 55%.

Analysis: Prop. 5 changes the constitution to make it easier to increase bond debt, leading to higher property taxes.

Amends the California Constitution to remove current provision that allows jails and prisons to impose involuntary servitude to punish crime.

Analysis: Prop 6 risks removing a key rehabilitation tool that provides inmates with work experience and skills that can aid their reintegration into society after release.

This initiative would raise the minimum wage from $16 an hour and adjust it for inflation, fast food workers = $20 and health care workers = $25.

Analysis: Raising the minimum wage could lead to increased prices for consumers, potentially hurting small businesses and driving inflation. Additionally, the wage hikes might result in job cuts or reduced hours as businesses struggle to absorb the higher labor costs,

This measure would roll back the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act of 1995 that generally prevents cities and counties from limiting rents in properties first occupied after Feb. 1, 1995.

Analysis: Prop 33 could discourage new housing development by imposing stricter rent controls, potentially exacerbating the housing shortage in California. It could also reduce property owners' ability to maintain and invest in their rental units

Requires certain providers to spend 98% of revenues from federal discount prescription drug program on direct patient care. Authorizes statewide negotiation of Medi-Cal drug prices.

Makes permanent the existing tax on managed health care insurance plans.

This measure would partly roll back Proposition 47, approved by voters in 2014, that turned some felonies into misdemeanors.

Analysis: Prop. 36 makes California communities safer by addressing rampant theft and drug trafficking. It toughens penalties for fentanyl and drug traffickers and "smash-and-grabs" while holding repeat offenders accountable.