2010 Initiative Analysis: The McCauley Pension Recovery Act

We discuss the impact of the proposed income tax surcharge and the excise tax separately below. Income Tax Surcharge The FTB estimates that the income tax surcharge would generate roughly $5  billion per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2010/100155.aspx

2010 Initiative Analysis: The McCauley Pension Recovery Act (version 2)

We discuss the impact of the proposed income tax surcharge and the excise tax separately below. Income Tax Surcharge The FTB estimates that the income tax surcharge would generate roughly $15  billion per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2010/100325.aspx

^[PDF] The 2011-12 Budget: Achieving General Fund Relief from Transportation Funds

This means that if the Legislature does not reenact the tax provisions of the tax swap with a two-thirds vote, they would be repealed November 3, 2011. Absent legislative action to reenact the tax swap, the state would most likely return to taxing fuels the way it did prior to the swap legislation.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/2011/transportation/tax_swap_012511.pdf

^[PDF] LAO 1998 Perspectives and Issues: Perspectives on State Revenues

The budget also proposes permanent elimination of the renters’ tax credit, although we view this not as a tax program per se, but rather akin to an expenditure program which uses the tax structure as a conve- nient means of disbursing its benefits.)
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/pdfs_pandi98/part3_revenues_pandi98.pdf

Despite Fiscal Forecasting Uncertainties, Multiyear Budget Planning Essential

May 27, 2021 - Prudence dictates that only when baseline projections show operating surpluses (annual revenues exceeding expenditures) can new ongoing commitments or tax reductions be considered. Conversely, if projections indicate a looming structural deficit, the estimates are helpful in functioning as an early warning system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4443

^[PDF] The McCauley Pension Recovery Act

We discuss the impact of the proposed income tax surcharge and the excise tax separately below. Income Tax Surcharge The FTB estimates that the income tax surcharge would generate roughly $15 billion per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2010/100325.pdf

Proposition 1A: Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act.

This measure would increase excise taxes on cigarettes and use these revenues to fund various health research and tobacco-related programs. Background Tobacco Taxes Existing Tax Rate. Current state law imposes excise taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2009/090689.aspx

^[PDF] Statewide Tax on sugar-sweetened drinks.

File No. 18-0004, Amendment #1) that would create a new statewide tax on sugar-sweetened drinks. BACKGROUND Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Drinks Four California Cities Tax Sugar-Sweetened Drinks. Albany, Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco levy excise taxes on nonalcoholic sugar-sweetened drinks.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2018/180384.pdf

^[PDF] The Weighted Student Funding Formula and English Learner Students

New formula also would apply to charter schools but not to county offi ces of education.  Equal base grant for every student ($4,920 in 2012-13).  Additional “weight” of 37 percent ($1,820 in 2012-13) for every EL and ED student, as measured by participation in Free and Reduced Price Meals (FRPM) program.  Additional “concentration” funding for districts with large proportions
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/education/2012/The_Weighted_Student_Funding_Formula_and_English_Learner_Students_032612.pdf

^[PDF] Open Meeting Act Mandate

.  Examples of Claims  County of Santa Barbara. For 384 meetings in 2005-06, the county claimed $78,044. The county claimed the “fl at rate” (then $134 per agenda) for most of the meetings. For 41 meetings with lengthy agendas, the county claimed 30 minutes of staff time (at a $44.60 hourly rate) for each item on the agenda.  City of Vista.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/Conf_Comm/2010/Open_Meeting_Act_6_16_10.pdf