Business group backers of a November ballot initiative that would repeal California’s Private Attorneys General Act have seeded a campaign account with $15 million in hopes of leveraging legislative changes to the targeted labor law and avoiding a costly election fight in November.

Since January, the California Chamber of Commerce, the California New Car Dealers Association and the Western Growers Service Corp. have each kicked in $5 million loans to a committee supporting the initiative. That’s on top of the $813,000 an associated political group spent late last year on mailers and online ads designed to put the PAGA issue in front of legislative eyes.