The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement

Mar 11, 2025 - California also already has an extensive network of state and campus financial aid offices that administer federal, state, and campus-based financial aid programs. CSAC regularly interacts with campus financial aid offices in the administration of state fin ancial aid programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

^[PDF] Questions and Answers: California's First Retiree Health Valuation

In the past, unfunded liabilities have been discussed primarily in the context of public pension systems. The average public pension sys‑ tem in California has enough assets on hand to cover about 88 percent of its estimated liabilities for future pension benefits earned to date by cur‑ rent and past employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/2007/ret_health_val/ret_health_val_050907.pdf

^[PDF] Supplemental Pension Payments and Deferrals

Supplemental Pension Payments and Deferrals Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 4 On State Administration and General Government Hon. Maria Elena Durazo, Chair P R E S E N T E D T O : L E G I S L A T I V E A N A L Y S T ’ S O F F I C E Supplemental Pension Payments and Deferrals M A R C H 2 8 , 2 0 1 9 Text Margins Left align medium
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/state_admin/2019/Pension-Payments-Deferrals-032819.pdf

The State's Retirement Systems: Fiscal Issues for 1993-94 [Publication Details]

Mar 1, 1993 - The State's Retirement Systems: Fiscal Issues for 1993-94 [Publication Details] The State's Retirement Systems: Fiscal Issues for 1993-94 Format: PDF Description: In the November 1992 election, the voters approved Proposition 162—the California Pension Protection Act of 1992.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1949

The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - State School Nutrition Program Supplements Federal Reimbursement. State law sets a state rate for free meals, which supplements the federal rate for free meals. For paid and reduced ‑priced meals, the state provides funds to match the combined state and federal rate for free meals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities [Publication Details]

Apr 10, 2025 - In this report, we describe how the Legislature has delegated some of its core powers to allow the Governor to exercise emergency authorities during a state of emergency. Next, we assess the degree to which this is necessary to facilitate emergency response and whether there are adequate oversight mechanisms in place.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5029

LAO 2006 Budget Perspectives and Issues: State Fiscal Picture

State currently appealing lower court rulings. ·       California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids grants ( Guillen case) —$460  million. ·       Pension obligation bonds —$525  million. ·       State Teachers’ Retirement System contributions —$500  million. »   Federal Deficit Reduction Act.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/2006_pandi/pi_01_anl06.html

The State Appropriations Limit

Apr 21, 2021 - The Constitution defines this exclusion as: “appropriations required to pay the cost of interest and redemption charges ... on indebtedness existing or legally authorized as of January 1, 1979, or on bonded indebtedness thereafter approved according to law by a vote of the electors... ” In implementing legislation, the Legislature chose not to include some outstanding debt that existed in 1979 —such as unfunded pension liabilities —as an exemption under  this  language.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4416

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - State ’s Data System Suggests Number of People Experiencing Homelessness Is Even Higher. Since 2021, the state ’s California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH), an entity within the Business, Consumer Services and Housing (BCSH) Agency charged with coordinating the state ’s efforts to address homelessness, has maintained a Homeless Data Integration System (HDIS).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

K-14 District Pension Contribution Rates and Costs [EdBudget]

Jan 12, 2018 - K-14 District Pension Contribution Rates and Costs [EdBudget] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/82