^[PDF] State Spending and Administrative Costs

General Fund and Special Funds as Percent of Personal Income State Spending as a Share of Economy Basically Flat Since Late 1970s 1 1950-51 55-56 60-61 65-66 70-71 75-76 80-81 85-86 90-91 95-96 00-01 05-06 10-11 15-16 20-21 Since 1970s, the State Government Has Grown Roughly at the Same Pace as State Economy Note: Values for 2019-20 are revised estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/state_admin/2020/State-Spending-and-Administrative-Costs-09292020.pdf

1999 Initiative Analysis: The Anti-Corruption Act of 2000

State law will soon require candidates for state legislative office, as well as other candidates for state elective positions, to make an online electronic disclosure of "late con tributions" to their campaigns within 24 hours after they are received.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/1999/990335_INT.html

^[PDF] Groundwater Preservation and Water Consumer Awareness Act of 2015

California’s state and local governments levy sales and use taxes on retail sales of most tangible goods. Under the State Constitution and state statute, many foods and beverages—including bottled water—are currently exempt from California’s state and local sales and use taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2015/150257.pdf

LAO 2003-04 Budget Analysis: General Government, Technology, Trade, and Commerce Agency (2920)

Some portion, if not most, of these jobs, therefore, would have been created even absent state funds. Tax Revenue Attributable to State Support Is Small. As an offset to the state costs identified above, the state receives some increased revenues from new product development and sales.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2003/general_govt/gen_21_2920_anl03.htm

BUDGETARY TRENDS

Nationwide, State Finances Have Been Improving After struggling through the 1990s recession, finances have improved for most states. In 1991-92, state year-end average reserve balances--a rough measure of fiscal health--had plummeted to their lowest level in decades.
https://lao.ca.gov/1995/010195_calguide/cgsbud1.html

^[PDF] Personal Privacy Protection Act

However, the actual cost would depend on how the measure is interpreted by the courts and implemented by state and local governments. For example, state and local governments could simply revise their Hon.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2015/150251.pdf

2005 Initiative Analysis: The McCauley-Rooker Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act

While state spending is currently subject to an annual limit on appropriations of tax revenues, the state is currently far below—about $11  billion—its limit. As a result, the state could spend some portion of the large influx of new tax revenues estimated under the measure in 2007 ‑08 and 2008 ‑09.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2005/050762.htm

^[PDF] The Comprehensive Population Policy of the State of California

The welfare reform law also prohibits state and local governments from providing public benefits to nonqualified aliens without state enactment of authorizing legislation. Examples of programs where the state has passed legislation to provide benefits to nonqualified aliens include prenatal care and long-term care benefits in the Medi-Cal Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2004/040254.pdf

Investment of Tobacco Settlement Funds for Health

Background In November 1998, the attorneys general of 46 states, including California, signed an agreement with five of the country's largest tobacco firms to settle several pending lawsuits brought by the states against the tobacco industry.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/1999/990904_INT.html

^[PDF] California Flat Tax

Finally, the large net loss in state revenues would result in major reductions in state spending and/or lead to increases in other state revenues. The impacts of these behavioral effects are unknown but likely major.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2007/070642.pdf