Updating the California Necessities Index

Aug 14, 2025 - Figure  3 provides our overall ranking of each measure across the three criteria. Option C ranks best in both historic similarity and fidelity to the current concept. While it faces some risk from future publication decisions, these risks are similar to the risk for options A and B, which still require metropolitan area statistics on prices for specific spending categories.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5065

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - LEMA supports local law enforcement agencies that have been deployed through the state ’s mutual aid system. The remaining balance of amounts previously appropriated for this purpose (about $12  million) was reverted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 Budget: California’s Film Tax Credit

Feb 28, 2025 - California is the only state that has an explicit competitive element to its tax credit, as it ranks projects using a formula that weighs the wages that will be generated by a production versus the value of credits that will be allocated t o that project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5000

Income Mobility in California Across Generations

Jan 4, 2017 - In general, adjusting for prices in a high–priced area like San Francisco reduces both the child’s income rank and the parents’ income rank. As a result, a child’s rank in the income spectrum does not change much relative to the parents’ rank.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3518

Evaluation of a Tax Exemption for Zero-Emission Buses

Apr 15, 2024 - CARB Exempts Transit Agencies From ICT Requirements Under Some Conditions. Under the ICT, CARB will exempt a transit agency from the requirements described above under specified conditions outside the agency ’s control, including: The agency declares a financial emergency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4890

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - In unadjusted dollar terms, at $380 per week, California ’s average weekly benefit rank around the middle of U.S. states. However, wages are higher in California than they are in most other states. As a result, California ’s average weekly UI benefits as a share of average weekly wages rank near the bottom, as shown in Figure  9 .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

The 2024-25 Budget: Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development

Feb 20, 2024 - Loans are made to public agencies on a first-come, first-served basis. To fund its loans, ISRF sells revenue bonds which are repaid from loan payments from public agencies. Over the last five years, ISRF has made, on average, around $50 million in loans per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4846

The 2018-19 Budget: California Competes Proposal

Feb 21, 2018 - GO-Biz uses a two-stage evaluation process to identify the businesses that will receive a California Competes tax credit: In the first stage, the applications are scored and ranked based only on (1)  the amount of tax credit that the business requested and (2)  the total dollar value of their proposed hiring and investments over five years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3759

The 2025-26 Budget: Update on Implementation of New Firearm and Ammunition Tax

Feb 19, 2025 - Retail sales to law enforcement agencies and active or retired peace officers, as well as those that total less than $5,000 per quarter, are exempt from this tax. Entities paying this tax are required to submit an electronic return and pay taxes quarterly, no later than the q uarter after the sales were made.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

The 2023-24 Budget: Multiyear Budget Outlook

May 23, 2023 - At an agency level, the single largest contributor to this difference is Health and Human Services (HHS). Across all programs in this agency (including, for example, Medi ‑Cal, In ‑Home Supportive Services, developmental services, and child care), our estimates are $6  billion higher than the administration ’s projection by 2026 ‑27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4772