The 2017-18 Budget: The State Controller’s Office Unclaimed Property Program

Feb 24, 2017 - Holders must do this between six months and one year prior to their deadline to report the property to the SCO (the “holder report ”). Within 165 days of the holder report, SCO notifies owners that their property will escheat to the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3584

The 2017-18 Budget: California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission

Feb 3, 2017 - In each of the past five fiscal years, CDIAC has underspent its budgeted authority by at least $200,000. Accordingly, it is not clear why additional budget authority is needed for the commission to maintain its current operations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3546

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—California State Payroll System

May 14, 2018 - Based on the Governor ’s request, SCO now anticipates completing Stage 2 of PAL in March  2020, about 1.5 years later than previously expected. SCO also anticipates it will complete Stage 3 in 2020 ‑21 and Stage 4 in 2021 ‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3836

The 2017-18 Budget: California Department of Food and Agriculture

Feb 28, 2017 - This is a net decrease of $63  million (or 14  percent) from the estimated current-year spending level. This year-over-year decrease in spending is mainly explained by (1)  an $89  million decrease in spending from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund —which receives revenue from cap-and-trade allowance auctions —reflecting a shift of these funds
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3591

The 2020-21 Budget: Assessing the Governor's Reorganization Proposals

Feb 7, 2020 - The provisions of these bills are usually proposed by the Governor and negotiated as part of the budget package for each fiscal year. In recent years, several government reorganizations have been pursued through budget trailer legislation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4146

The 2018-19 Budget: State Treasurer’s Office

Jan 31, 2018 - This is a decrease of about $6.6  million, or about 16  percent, from current-year estimated expenditures. This decrease is largely because the budget-year costs associated with STO ’s ongoing information technology (IT) project, Debt Management System II, are not reflected in the Governor ’s budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3737

The 2016-17 Budget: The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services

Mar 1, 2016 - Governor ’s Proposal The Governor ’s 2016 Five-Year Infrastructure Plan identifies $3  million in deferred maintenance needs —almost all new projects since 2015-16 —at the OES headquarters facility, as shown in Figure  2.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/report/3376

The 2019-20 Budget: Department of Consumer Affairs

Feb 13, 2019 - The Governor ’s budget proposes $ 699  m illion from various funds for support of DCA —including the boards, bureaus, commissions, and programs it oversees —in 2019 ‑20, which is a decrease of $ 5  m illion, or less than 1  p ercent, from the current ‑year estimated expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3937

State Fiscal Effects of California’s Minimum Wage

Nov 15, 2017 - A law passed in 2016 ( SB 3 [Leno] ) will increase California’s statewide minimum wage over a period of several years, reaching $15 per hour for most workers as soon as January 1, 2022. (In a 2016 blog series , we presented some data on the workers who will be affected by this policy.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3714

State Fiscal Effects of California’s Minimum Wage [Publication Details]

Nov 15, 2017 - This post discusses the fiscal effects of California's minimum wage on the General Fund. This is part of a collection of material for The 2018-19 Budget: California’s Fiscal Outlook. See a complete list of this year's fiscal outlook material on our fiscal outlook budget page.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3714