The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization [Publication Details]

Feb 25, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization [Publication Details] 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/Publications/Detail/4987

The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization

Feb 25, 2025 - As we understand it, BCSH would become two agencies: the Consumer Protection Agency and the Housing and Homelessness Agency. Each agency would be led by a Secretary, who would be a member of the Governor ’s cabinet.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - When proposing new projects, the administration generally follows the ranked project priority list identified in the judicial branch ’s 2019 assessment of facility needs. Since 2021 ‑22, the construction or renovation of about a dozen of the highest ranked immediate need projects have commenced.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Collective bargaining between the Governor and the state ’s rank-and-file employees (organized into 21 bargaining units) is governed by the Ralph C. Dills Act (Dills Act). The product of negotiations at the bargaining table is a labor agreement referred to as a memorandum of understanding (MOU).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

The 2025-26 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 18, 2025 - Chancellor ’s Office Then Ranks Projects Within Each Category. Districts typically submit more modernization and growth project proposals than available state bond funding can support. Each year, the Chancellor ’s Office uses certain scoring metrics to rank projects within these two categories.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5017

2014 GDP: California Ranks 7th or 8th in the World [EconTax Blog]

Jul 1, 2015 - The figure below shows how California ranks based on estimates from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank , and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) World Factbook publication. This exercise essentially treats California as if it were a separate nation-state.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/90

The 2020-21 Budget: Fresno Integrated K-16 Education Collaborative

Mar 11, 2020 - Education agencies also may coordinate to create articulated education programs. To aid in meeting local goals, education agencies may use their core funding to support counselors, tutors, mentors, industry partners, and program coordinators, among other expenses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4199

The 2025-26 Budget: Natural Resources and Agriculture Discretionary Spending Proposals [Publication Details]

Feb 18, 2025 - This brief discusses three discretionary General Fund spending proposals in the agriculture and natural resources policy areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4967

The 2025-26 Budget: Natural Resources and Agriculture Discretionary Spending Proposals

Feb 18, 2025 - The 2025 ‑26 Governor ’s Budget includes three notable new discretionary one ‑time General Fund expenditures in the agriculture and natural resources policy areas: (1) $24.9  million for the California Department of Food and Agriculture ’s (CDFA ’s) Farm to School Program, (2) $10  million for the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) to provide to the privately owned and
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4967

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - The administration ’s fiscal estimates indicate that nearly 1,400 rank-and-file and nearly 500 excluded employees have more than 18 years of service and currently receive a seniority payment. The administration estimates that the higher tiers for employees with 27 or more years of service would apply to 180 rank-and-file employees and 80 excluded employees, increasing annual state costs by about $2.2  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920