The 2022-23 Budget: Fuel Price and Other Fiscal Relief Options

May 12, 2022 - The state can meet SAL  requirements through a variety of actions, such as lowering revenues from certain taxes, spending more on excludable purposes (for example, tax refunds, capital outlay, and subventions to local governments), and/or providing tax rebates and additional payments to schools.
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The 2022-23 Budget: Update on K-12 Student Attendance [Publication Details]

May 11, 2022 - In early March, the California Department of Education published the first report of 2021-22 attendance data. In this post, we provide background on the calculation of school attendance, describe findings from the updated data, and discuss a few key issues to provide greater context for the findings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4595

The 2022-23 Budget: Update on K-12 Student Attendance

May 11, 2022 - These declines are mainly due to declines in the school ‑age population caused by historically low birth rates. As   Figure  3 shows, year ‑to ‑year declines in statewide enrollment and attendance were relatively modest prior to the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4595

The 2022-23 Budget: Hastings College of the Law [Publication Details]

May 10, 2022 - The Governor’s January budget proposes a $2 million (12 percent) General Fund base increase for the Hastings College of the Law (Hastings) in 2022‑23. After accounting for other revenue increases (primarily from student tuition revenue), Hastings’ total ongoing core budget would increase by $5 million (6.7 percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4593

The 2022-23 Budget: Hastings College of the Law

May 10, 2022 - As Figure  1 shows, the size of Hastings ’ base adjustments has varied over the past several years. Figure 1 State Has Provided Hastings With Base Augmentations Most Years (Dollars in Millions)
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The 2022-23 Budget: Office of Planning and Research Higher Education Proposals

May 10, 2022 - Thus, a course provided once per academic year at three campuses over the three ‑year period is counted as nine courses.) Of these courses, CELL estimates 38  percent were at CCC, 31  percent were at CSU, 20  percent were at UC, and 11  percent were at high schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4594

The 2022-23 Budget: Pesticide Enforcement

May 5, 2022 - Data from DPR indicate multiple cases in recent years where regulated entities did not provide requested sale and distribution information for contaminated produce in a timely manner (roughly 45 cases annually over the past five years) and where regulated entities distributed and/or moved quarantined produce (roughly three cases annually over the past five years).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4592

The 2022-23 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Revenue Update

Apr 29, 2022 - Under those two revenue scenarios, we estimated that total revenue would exceed the Governor’s budget assumptions by $600 million (low scenario) to $2.8 billion (base scenario) over the 2021-22 and 2022-23 fiscal years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4591

Strong Tax Collections Belie California's Challenging Fiscal Outlook [Publication Details]

Apr 26, 2022 - Strong Tax Collections Belie California's Challenging Fiscal Outlook [Publication Details] Strong Tax Collections Belie California's Challenging Fiscal Outlook Format: HTML Description: Given the persistent strength in state tax collections, it may come as a surprise that California’s General Fund likely faces a budget problem in the coming years.
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Strong Tax Collections Belie California's Challenging Fiscal Outlook

Apr 26, 2022 - No one knows for sure, but in some scenarios, we found the cumulative estimated budget problem would substantially exceed the state ’s current combined general-purpose budget reserves of around $25  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4590