The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - This is because from 2018 onward, local governments have had sufficient authority to raise fees to pay for the costs of compliance due to the statutory chan ges that took effect at that time —thereby making it so the state is not required to reimburse local governments for their costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

2001 Budget Analysis: Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (2100)

Under the act, the ABC has the exclusive authority, in accordance with laws enacted by the Legislature, to license and regulate the manufacture, sale, purchase, possession, and transportation of alcoholic bevera ges in California, and to collect licensing fees.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2001/general_govt/gen_16_2100_Dept_Alcoholic_Bev_Control_anl01.htm

Proposed pilot unlikely to provide reliable results

May 19, 2014 - The property tax is a major source of revenue for local governments, raising more than $50 billion annually for counties, cities, special districts, and schools and community colle ges. Counties administer the property tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/810

Analysis of the 1995-96 Budget Bill: Business and Labor Overview

Therefore, we recommend that the DIR report to the Legislature on the cost- effectiveness of the program and on any chan ges in the law or administrative process that would improve its performance. (See page G-66.)
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1995/chapg-ov.html

California Update, May 1996

Similarly, the current withholding gains provide encouraging evidence that the underlying trend in wa ges is stronger than previously thought. The withholding gains are especially strong in view of the elimination of the top 10  percent and 11  percent marginal state income tax brackets as of this January.
https://lao.ca.gov/1996/cal_update/cup0596.html

LAO Analysis of the 1998-99 Budget Bill Criminal Justice Overview Issues

In view of the increased federal role, the Legislature needs to evaluate proposed state-funded law enforcement increases in the context of expanded federal funds and consider linka ges with federal programs in order to maximize both federal and state funding (see pages D-34 to D-42).
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/crim_justice_overview_anl98.html

^[PDF] State's Fiscal Outlook Brightens

Proposition 98 Funding- Significant Increase Based on our review of the various factors that determine the minimum funding guaran- tee under Proposition 98, we conclude that aE_out 80 to 100 percent of the new reven~s will go to K-12 schools and community cal- l~ges.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/1997/update_california_5-1997.pdf

2001 Budget Analysis: P&I, Part 5b

The UC Riverside, for example, encoura ges native English speakers who fail the Subject A exam to enroll directly in lower division courses. Because it does not characterize these courses as precollegiate, it receives f ull state funding for them.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2001/2001_pandi/pi_part_5b_anl01.html

1996-97 Budget Analysis: Health and Social Services Overview

This is due to several factors, including (1) the increasing incidence of AIDS-related disabilities, (2) chan ges in federal policy that liberalized the criteria for establishing a disability, (3) a decline in the rate at which recipients leave the program (perhaps due to increases in life expectancy), and (4) expanded state and federal outreach efforts in the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1996/a96cov.html

Felony sentencing. [Ballot]

Jan 2, 2018 - We describe these chan ges in greater detail below. Reduces Number of Felonies Considered Violent and Serious. Under current law, burglary of an occupied residence and robbery are considered both violent and serious felonies.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-046