The bill was repealed by voter initiative in November 2012.

By voter initiative, as a proposed amendment to appear on the ballot (limited to a single subject).

Since then, voter initiatives have become a regular instrument of California public policy.

The benefits had been stripped by a voter initiative in November 2010.

The program was created in November under a voter initiative known as Proposition 71.

A steering committee of environmentalists, which included him, decided to drop plans for a new voter initiative on next June's ballot.

That would be by far the largest number of such statewide voter initiatives held in any one year.

The legal effect of the court ruling was curtailed by another voter initiative called Proposition 8 later that year.

The court also stayed the ruling; the voter initiative was to remain in effect pending appeal.

Though it is the most extreme case, California is not alone in making law through voter initiatives; 26 states do so.