The 2026-27 Budget: Permitting Support at the State Water Resources Control Board

Mar 2, 2026 - CWA Section 401 certification (dredge/fill certification) State and Regional Water Boards For WOTUS, issued in conjunction with Section 404 permits to ensure projects also comply with state water quality standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5144

The 2024-25 Budget: Future of Public Health Budget Solution

May 21, 2024 - The state operations portion focused primarily on workforce development and emergency preparedness and response and included 404 positions in its spending plan. The funding for LHJs was distributed based on population and equity measures and at least 70  percent of funding is required to be spent on workforce (LHJs plan to hire about 1,300 new positions with the funding).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4904

The 2022-23 Budget: Public Health Foundational Support

Feb 16, 2022 - The plan proposes 404 new positions at CDPH, a 15  percent increase across the relevant CDPH centers and offices, which had 2,617 authorized positions as of December 1, 2021. CDPH intends to draft duty statements for the 404 new positions from January through May of this year, begin advertising positions from May to July, and conduct interviews and make candidate selections from July to October.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4544

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - A key strategy for reducing home losses during wildfires is for homeowners to maintain an area free of excess or dead vegetation around their homes, known as defensible space.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457

The 2020-21 Budget: Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Sep 9, 2020 - As of December 31, 2019, 404 Unit 2 members —roughly 9  percent of the bargaining unit —have vacation or annual leave balances exceeding the existing 640 hour cap. Contract Reopener. Under the side letter, the Director of Finance has sole discretion to determine whether or not there are sufficient revenues to restore suspensions or deferrals or other compensation reductions provided by the agreement before the scheduled restoration.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4267

How High? Adjusting California’s Cannabis Taxes

Dec 17, 2019 - Miller, Keaton and Boyoung Seo (2019). “Tax Revenues When Substances Substitute: Marijuana, Alcohol, and Tobacco. ” Mimeo, University of Oregon. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4125

The 2019-20 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 26, 2019 - This initial operating segment (IOS) —commonly referred to as the Valley ‑to ‑Valley line —is expected to be completed in 2029 and cost about $29. 5  b illion. The IOS is itself divided into multiple segments, beginning with the initial construction segment (ICS), which extends for 119 m iles through the Central Valley from Madera (about 25 m iles north of Fresno) to Shafter (about 20 m iles north of Bakersfield).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3948

The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the May Revision Education Budget Proposals

May 14, 2018 - Proposition 98 funding per student is $11,428, an increase of $404 (3. 7 p ercent) over the revised 2017 ‑ 18 l evel. Figure 2 Comparing K ‑12 Proposition  98 Funding Under Governor ’s Budget and May Revision (Total Funding in Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3834

The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the Health and Human Services Budget

Feb 16, 2018 - This Legislative package —which includes Chapter   35 o f 2012 (S B  1013 , Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review),  Chapter   773 o f 2015 (A B  403 , Stone), Chapter   612 o f 2016 (A B  1997 , Stone), and Chapter   732 o f 2017 (A B  404 , Stone) —makes fundamental changes to the way the state cares for children in the foster care system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3757

The 2018-19 Budget: Proposition 98 Outlook

Nov 15, 2017 - Though we assume total Proposition  98 funding remains unchanged in 2016 ‑17, our estimate of local property tax revenue is up $ 404  m illion (see Figure   2 ). The increase reflects updated property tax data for 2016 ‑17.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3716