There was one of these in 2022 (and 2010, and 2018, and 2012, and 2004), and California just announced its ballot propositions for November, 2024. Here are the quick versions:
Proposition 2 - hard to tell, as only the first page is available, but it appears to be $10 billion in bonds for building and “modernizing” schools at all levels below university.
3 - finally replaces the “Only marriages between a man and a woman are recognized in California” text in the state Constitution with, “The right to marriage is a fundamental right.”
4 - $4.1 billion in bonds for (deep inhale) safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, drought preparedness, and clean air.
5 - reduces the 2/3 majority requirement for a city/county district to pass a tax increase to be used for public infrastructure or affordable housing to 55%.
6 - makes it illegal to force prisoners to do work (the exception to the ban on involuntary servitude in the 13th Amendment).
For some strange reason, numbers 7 through 31 are skipped
32 - raise the minimum wage by $1/year until it reaches $18.
33 - re-enables cities and counties to enact rent control.
34 - a health care provider that spends more than $100 million over a 10-year period on anything not considered “direct patient care” that owns two or more “multifamily dwellings” that have had a combined total of 500 or more “high-severity safety violations” loses its health care license(s) and tax exempt status if it does not spend at least 98% of its revenues from the federal discount prescription drug program on direct patient care. If you thought, “This is obviously targeting some company,” you appear to be right, but it’s not one of the big players like Kaiser; it’s the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
35 - makes the current Medi-Cal tax permanent.
36 - applies the “three strikes” law to drug possession and to theft (assuming all three “strikes” are for the same offense); it seems to be that something like this was tried before, and was found “cruel and unusual punishment” to charge someone with a felony for three petty thefts.
There was another one planned - to require that a ballot measure that would raise a minimum required vote to a certain level pass by the same level - but this has been moved to 2026.
No, I didn’t leave out any attempts to legalize sports betting in the state; if there were any even at the petition stage, none of them made the ballot.