The State Appropriations Limit [Publication Details]

Apr 21, 2021 - The State Appropriations Limit [Publication Details] HTML Description: This report: (1) describes how appropriations limits work for the state, school districts, and local governments in California; (2) explains why the limit is a constraint for state government; and (3) concludes with a variety of short- and long-term policy options—both of which we think the Legislature will need to take—in response to the issue.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4416

Flexible Funding to California in the American Rescue Plan

Mar 23, 2021 - State and local governments have until December 31, 2024 to use the funds. Restrictions on Use of Funds. There are two restrictions on the use of the fiscal recovery funds. First, state and local governments are prohibited from using the funds to make supplemental pension payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4407

The 2021-22 Budget: The Governor’s Suspension Proposal

Jan 29, 2021 - It is possible that future state proposals to eliminate or reduce IHSS services could face the similar legal challenges. Other Items Provide Funding for Newer State Programs. Not all suspensions directly fund longstanding government programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4328

The 2021-22 Budget: The Governor’s Suspension Proposal [Publication Details]

Jan 29, 2021 - Under current law, about $1.3 billion in state expenditures—including many that directly support core government services—are subject to potential suspension in 2021-22. Given that the state has a significant windfall, it is unlikely that these suspensions would be operative under current law. The Governor proposes maintaining the suspension calculation for 2022-23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4328

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - We recommend the Legislature begin to consider how the state might address the budget ’s ongoing problem. For example, using some of the windfall to make supplemental pension payments would reduce the multiyear structural deficit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

The 2021-22 Budget: CalWORKs Fiscal Outlook

Dec 8, 2020 - We have talked to several of these offices throughout the state, and we understand that they have made extraordinary effo rts to ensure CalWORKs remains accessible even during public health lockdowns.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4306

With New Deficits Looming, California Will Weigh its Options for Allocating a Large Revenue Windfall

Dec 1, 2020 - The first recognizes that replenishing reserves, repaying internal borrowing, and restoring supplemental pension payments —which together represent the lion ’s share of the state ’s budget resilience —all are one-time resource commitments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4305

The 2021-22 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook [Publication Details]

Nov 18, 2020 - However, the state also faces an operating deficit beginning in 2021-22 and throughout the outlook period, growing to $17 billion by 2024-25. Our analysis also finds it is quite unlikely for revenues to grow fast enough for the budget to break even and erase the operating deficit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4297

The 2021-22 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 18, 2020 - …But State Also Faces an Operating Deficit Beginning in 2021 ‑22. Under our main forecast, General Fund revenues from the state ’s three largest sources would grow at an average annual rate of less than 1  p ercent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4297

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 5, 2020 - Shift Pension Costs. The budget takes actions in a few pension ‑related areas that result in cost shifts from the present to the future. First, the 2019 ‑ 20 b udget made a supplemental pension payment of $2. 5  b illion to CalPERS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4263