The 2020-21 Budget: U-Visa I-918 Form Mandate

Mar 4, 2020 - Below, we discuss the U-Visa I-918 Form mandate, which is one of two newly identified state mandates in the 2020-21 bu dget. Background U-Visa. Victims of crime without legal status in the U.S. who cooperate with the investigation of the crimes against them and meet certain other requirements are eligible to apply for a U-Visa.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4192

The 2020-21 Budget: Immigrant Legal Services at the Public Higher Education Segments

May 21, 2020 - Another one-quarter have legal status, such as a green card or employment visa, and may be eligible to undertake the process of becoming a naturalized citizen. The remaining roughly one-quarter of the state ’s immigrants (more than two million residents) are undocumented.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4239

Update on Los Angeles’ Bid for the 2024 Olympics

Mar 23, 2017 - During the Salt Lake City Games, work permits and entry visas for those connected with the Games received priority status, which reduced the average processing time to one week. President ’s Executive Orders.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3622

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852

California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - After the dot-com bust and the Great Recession, it took four and five years, respectively, for revenues to recover. Incorporating revenue risk into the budget now, therefore, reflects prudence, not pessimism.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

^[PDF] Update on Los Angeles’ Bid for the 2024 Olympics

During the Salt Lake City Games, work permits and entry visas for those connected with the Games received priority status, which reduced the average processing time to one week. President’s Executive Orders.
https://lao.ca.gov/Reports/2017/3622/Update-Olympics-032217.pdf

Oversight of certain public benefit artificial intelligence (AI) companies. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - The measure would have the following major fiscal effects: Increased state costs that would likely be in the tens of millions of dollars annually to establish and operate a new regulatory commission overseeing certain public benefit AI com panies.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-033

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - For California, the dot ‑com era —when stocks rose and then fell precipitously in response to widespread adoption of the internet —offers the most salient example. The internet has proven to be a transformative technology and, yet, the stock market ’s initial reaction was clearly overly exuberant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

Supplement D: California Tax Policy and the Internet

Option: Reciprocal Agreements Between Individual States This approach would call for California to establish cooperative agreements with individual states that would require companies operating in them to collect the appropriate SUT taxes on shipments to California, and visa versa.
https://lao.ca.gov/2000/013100_inet_tax/013100_internet_sup2.html