Despite Fiscal Forecasting Uncertainties, Multiyear Budget Planning Essential

May 27, 2021 - This manifests in operating deficits that persist through the outlook horizon (2024‑25). Adopting a budget with this combination of assumptions is inadvisable in our view. One reason is that—given the state’s balanced-budget requirement—doing so requires assuming that the multiyear budget projections are wrong.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4443

^[PDF] The 2021-22 Budget: Trial Court Operations Proposals

We estimate the annual excess tax revenue will continue to increase and will exceed $200 million in 2024-25. Recommendations Adjust Offset to Free Up Additional
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2021/4362/Trial-Court-Operations-021121.pdf

Why Are Home Sales a Useful Economic Indicator? [EconTax Blog]

Aug 23, 2018 - As we have discussed ( here , here , and here ), both home price growth and home sales are important drivers of growth in taxable property values and, in turn, property tax revenues for schools and local governments.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/299

Mental Health Services Act: LAO Update: The Governor's Revised Behavioral Health Modernization Proposal

Aug 21, 2023 - The amendments not only set a statutory minimum level of funding for children and youth mental health services, but also include, unlike the initial proposal, transition-age youth (individuals 16 to 25 years of age) in those services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4792

2023-24 Changes in Proposition 98 Spending [EdBudget]

Nov 7, 2023 - LCFF = Local Control Funding Formula, COLA = Cost-of-living adjustment, COE = county office of education, ASES = After School Education and Safety Program, CCEE = California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, LCAP = Local Control and Accountability Plan, LGBTQ+ = lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and others.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/778

Issues That Could Impact Californians' Health Care Coverage in 2023 and Beyond [Publication Details]

Dec 16, 2022 - This brief looks at health care coverage in California; provides background on the drivers of the significant decline in the percentage of Californians without health care coverage over the last ten years; and discusses various issues that could impact the number of Californians with coverage, and how the type of coverage they have may change, in calendar year 2023 and beyond.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4654

^[PDF] 1963 Budget Analysis: Legislative

It is understood this location is of a temporary nature due to the remodeling of the Law School. It is be-, lieved reasonable to anticipate that the current rental fee of $125 per month (~OO square feet at 25 cents per square foot) nQW paid the university will be increased should the commission be returned to its former 10Gation in the remodeled Law School Building. .' .
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1963/02_legislative_1963.pdf

LAO Education

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2002-03 May Revision

The May Revision also proposes a one-year rollback in the VLF rate reduction enacted previously —from 67 percent to 25  percent for calendar year 2003. This reduction will result in a temporary increase in the VLF paid by vehicle owners in 2003.
https://lao.ca.gov/2002/may_revise/0502_may_revision.html

The 2021-22 Budget: LAO Preliminary Comments on the May Revision Medi-Cal Budget

May 21, 2021 - The medically tailored meals pilot program is a three ‑year pilot, which began in 2018, to provide Medi ‑Cal participants with congestive heart failure medically tailored meals. The 2020 ‑21 Budget Act extended the pilot through calendar year 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4436