^[PDF] The 2025-26 Budget: California’s Fiscal Outlook

The largest contributors include: the fiscal effects of recently passed Figure 2 General Fund Condition Under Fiscal Outlook (In Millions) 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 Prior-year fund balance $47,119 $15,875 $13,881 Revenues and transfers 191,536 215,951 217,970 Expenditures 222,781 217,944 223,303 Ending fund balance $15,875 $13,881 $8,549 Encumbrances $10,569 $10,569 $10,569 SFEU
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2024/4939/2025-26-Fiscal-Outlook-112024.pdf

^[PDF] The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Public Safety Package

Preliminary 2021 data from 27 cities across the United States show a 14 percent increase in motor vehicle theft between 2020 and 2021. 1,000
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2022/4546/Public-Safety-Package-021722.pdf

^[PDF] The 2019-20 Budget: Creating an Integrated Education Data System

Do students who earn an associate degree for transfer (ADT) at a community college end up taking fewer total units to earn a bachelor’s degree than students who transfer without an ADT? 8. Are students receiving Cal Grant competitive awards more likely to enroll and graduate from college than those eligible students who just missed the cut-off for getting awards?
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2019/4026/IEDS-050619.pdf

^[PDF] Legislative Analyst's Office

Some cities and counties have enacted minimum wages that exceed the state’s minimum wage. Currently, more than 20 cities—and all of Los Angeles County—have local minimum wages that exceed the state’s.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2019/3952/Analysis-DDS-022519.pdf

^[PDF] Considering Options to Expand Paid Family Leave in California

Alternatives include changing the statutory rules that govern the adjustable payroll tax used to finance benefits, identifying other employment-related fund sources, or making an annual General Fund transfer to finance expanded benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/state_admin/2019/Family-Leave-030719.pdf

^[PDF] Review of Recent Department of Social Services Housing and Homelessness Augmentations

Project Roomkey is administered locally and eligibility varies by community—cities, counites, and tribal governments. Project Roomkey units are intended to be temporary, emergency shelter options. The program has established a rehousing strategy to help ensure no Project Roomkey occupant is forced to exit into unsheltered homelessness by developing and implementing plans to transition individuals from Project Roomkey sites into permanent housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/socservices/2023/DSS-Housing-Homelessness-Augmentations-071423.pdf

^[PDF] Local government control

California’s cities and counties make most decisions about when, where, and what type of housing will be built. Cities and counties enact zoning ordinances to set property-specific land use requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2020/200474.pdf

^[PDF] CalFacts 2024

Also provide services similar to those provided by cities to residents living outside city limits. (About 16 percent of Californians do not live within city limits.) Provide certain specialized municipal services (in place of cities and counties), such as water and pest abatement.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2024/4942/CalFacts-2024-120224.pdf

^[PDF] An Initial Review of the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program

Forest ownership in the conterminous United States circa 2014: distribution of seven ownership types - geospatial dataset. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2017-0007.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2021/4482/RFFC-121321.pdf

^[PDF] The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor’s Budget

The administration’s estimates of revenues (excluding transfers, both between state funds and from the federal government) are $13.6 billion higher across the three-year budget window compared to our estimates in November.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2023/4662/Budget-Overview-2023-011323.pdf