{"id":340418,"date":"2026-05-31T17:12:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/340418\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:12:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:12:29","slug":"los-angeles-city-and-county-election-guide-proposed-cannabis-tax-healthcare-tax-and-hotel-tax-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/340418\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles city and county election guide: proposed cannabis tax, healthcare tax and hotel tax measures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Both Los Angeles city and county<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-05-01\/2026-california-election-voter-guide-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> voters have several ballot measures<\/a> to decide in the primary election, covering such issues as hotel taxes, pot and and healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>L.A. County ballot measure<\/p>\n<p>The half-cent sales tax on the ballot would go to prop up local hospitals and clinics. Backers say it\u2019s necessary after President Trump\u2019s Big Beautiful bill is set to <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/file.lacounty.gov\/SDSInter\/lac\/1202661_EssentialServicesRestorationActforLosAngelesCountyGeneralSalesTaxMeasureFAQ_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">slash<\/a> more than $2 billion from the county\u2019s budget for health services over the next three years. Critics worry it could hurt business and be a burden on taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"The Olympic cauldron is lighted at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum \"   width=\"1200\" height=\"802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1780247549_996_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p>The Olympic cauldron is lighted at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.<\/p>\n<p>(Damian Dovarganes \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p>       L.A. City ballot measures<\/p>\n<p>Measure TT<\/p>\n<p>Would increase the city\u2019s hotel and short-term rental bed tax by 2% until the end of the Olympics, and 1% thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>Measure TC<\/p>\n<p>Would require online travel companies to pay taxes on their markups to L.A. customers.<\/p>\n<p>Measure CB<\/p>\n<p>Would tax illegal cannabis businesses at the same rate as legal operators, potentially generating $30 million to $35 million annually for city services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both Los Angeles city and county voters have several ballot measures to decide in the primary election, covering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2076,41125,21224,140277,140275,140282,140276,137183,140278,48,52,51,47,25834,50,49,140280,76848,140279,140281,9577],"class_list":["post-340418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-budget","tag-burden","tag-clinic","tag-county-ballot-measure","tag-county-voter","tag-health-service","tag-healthcare-tax","tag-hotel-taxis","tag-l-a-customer","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-city","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-measure-tt","tag-pot","tag-short-term-rental-bed-tax","tag-such-issue","tag-taxpayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}