Local Investment Reporting Mandate

Persons seeking election or appointment as county treasurers or tax colle ctors must meet certain education requirements, and must complete 24  hours of continuing education in the areas of treasury management or public finance every two years.
https://lao.ca.gov/2000/011800_investment_report/011800_investment_report.html

2000 Cal Facts State-Local Finances

Half of state revenues are from the personal income tax, while 30 percent are from sales and use taxes. The largest share of local taxes is from the property tax. Other local taxes include the business license tax, transient occupancy tax, motor vehicle license fee, and utility users ' tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/2000/calfacts/2000_calfacts_state-local.html

California Spending Plan 2001-02 Chapter 1

The budget also includes a permanent 45  percent increase in the senior citizens' property tax assistance program. In addition, the budget contains an agricultural and rural tax relief package which includes sales tax exemptions for agricultural and forestry equipment, liquified petroleum gas, and diesel fuel.
https://lao.ca.gov/2001/spend_plan/0901_spend_plan_chap_1.html

California's Fiscal Outlook: LAO Projections 2003-04 Through 2008-09

Over 90 percent of the total, however, is attributable to the state's three major taxes —the personal income tax (PIT), the sales and use tax (SUT), and the corporation tax (CT). In this chapter, we summarize our updated revenue projections and provide detail behind our key revenue-related assumptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/2003/fiscal_outlook_03/03-04_fiscal_outlook.html

California Spending Plan 2004-05: The Budget Act and Related Legislation

Both Measures Greatly Reduce State Authority to Reallocate Tax Revenues Among Local Governments to Address Policy Concerns Effect on Revenue Allocation · Proposition  65 requires state voter approval before the state can reduce any individual local government’s revenues from the property tax, uniform local sales tax, or vehicle license fee (VLF),
https://lao.ca.gov/2004/spend_plan_04/0904_spend_plan_main.htm

Revenue Volatility in California

Increase Reliance on Alternative Taxes An alternative approach to directly changing treatment of capital gains or modifying the PIT tax rate structure would be to retain the current basic PIT structure but "rebalance " the state's portfolio of taxes away from the PIT and toward other taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/2005/rev_vol/rev_volatility_012005.htm

^[PDF] SANDAG: An Assessment of Its Role in the San Diego Region

Existing Sales Tax. First, every city in the region and the county would be guar- anteed to receive at least its current level of sales tax revenues in future years, provided the community continues to have a comparable (or greater level) of sales tax transactions.
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/sandag/sandag_033006.pdf

^[PDF] Tax Expenditure Reviews

Chapter 552, Statutes of 2004 (SB 1713, Machado) PIT Expansion of favorable tax treatments provided to military personnel. TEP = tax expenditure program; PT = property tax; PIT = personal income tax; CT = corporation tax; SRT = Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee. 3L E G I S L A T I V E A N A L Y S T ’ S O F F I C E Benefi t Changes.
https://lao.ca.gov/2007/tax_expenditures/tax_expenditures_1107.pdf

^[PDF] 2009-10 California Spending Plan: The Budget Package

The Legislature also passed a personal income tax (PIT) surcharge, a change in income tax withholding, a 0.75 cent increase in the sales tax, and a conversion of the gas tax to a fee. The Legislature’s December 2008 package was passed on a majority vote (as opposed to a two-thirds vote) on the premise that the package was not a net tax increase.
https://lao.ca.gov/2009/spend_plan/spending_plan_09-10.pdf

^[PDF] 1947 Budget Analysis: SECTION I

The matter of recommending new taxes or sources of revenue where present tax levies are insufficient is required in the last sentence of Section 34 of Article IV of the Con- stitution above presented. " This new service as presented in the several bills is so loose and open that one cannot estimate accurately what it may cost, but it will be many millions a year more than the proposed tax will produce.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1947/03_section_1_1947.pdf