The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Census American Community Survey, from 2015 to 2024, the number of individuals in the state aged 65 and over has incr eased by 29  percent, while the overall population has increased by a little over 2  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - Total caseload (of Early Start and Lanterman caseload, excluding presumptive eligibility) has increased from about 280,000  individuals served in 2015 to about 460,000 individuals served in 2025. This represents about a 60  percent increase.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

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

Mar 9, 2026 - Smaller, short-lived corrections occur frequently, among them the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the 2011 U.S. debt celing standoff, the 2015 Chinese growth slowdown, the early pandemic drop in 2020, and the 2025 tariff selloff.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

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

Mar 9, 2026 - Smaller, short-lived corrections occur frequently, among them the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the 2011 U.S. debt celing standoff, the 2015 Chinese growth slowdown, the early pandemic drop in 2020, and the 2025 tariff selloff.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - This new methodology was to be implemented no sooner than 2015 ‑16. Although efforts began to develop a revised methodology, none has been implemented to date. This is largely due to other competing policy priorities —for example ACA implementation and COVID ‑19 response efforts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Mar 3, 2026 - Beginning in 2015-16, however, SSI/SSP caseload began to decline slowly at an average rate of 1.7  percent each year. As shown in Figure  3, the Governor ’s budget projects that caseload will decrease by 0.9  percent in both 2025-26 and 2026-27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System

Feb 27, 2026 - In 2015, the Legislature directed the Office of Emergency Services (OES) to develop a plan for transitioning to Next Generation 911. Initially, OES adopted a regional approach for the project consisting of four regional networks and a single statewide back ‑up provider, intended to enhance resiliency of the system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - Between 2015 ‑16 and 2024 ‑25, UC ’s FTE workforce increased by an annual average of 2.4  percent, while its FTE enrollment rose by 1.9  percent. As a result, the student ‑to ‑employee ratio declined slightly over the period (from 2.2 to 2.1).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

The 2026-27 Budget: CDTFA’s Cannabis and Tobacco Programs

Feb 23, 2026 - When we reviewed this issue in The 2015‑16 Budget: Cigarette Tax and Licensing Programs , we did not find this argument compelling. We recommended that the Licensing Program be funded exclusively through license fees, which is how it is funded today.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5132

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 4, 2026 - It paid the remaining amount over the 2015 ‑16 through 2018 ‑19 period. Most recently, the June 2025 budget recognized an increase in the 2024 ‑25 guarantee but set school funding $1.9  billion below the revised estimate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110