The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - Notably, Proposition  218 did not define what activities are encompassed by “sewer services. ” A 2017 State Law Defined “Sewer, ” Making Fee Increases Less Burdensome. Chapter  536 of 2017 (SB  231, Hertzberg) explicitly defined sewer to include both sanitary and stormwater systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

Assessing California’s Climate Policies: Cap-and-Trade Reauthorization

May 7, 2025 - This report is intended to help inform legislative decision-making around reauthorization of the cap-and-trade program. It is submitted pursuant to Chapter 135 of 2017 (AB 398, Garcia), which requires our office to report annually on the economic impacts and benefits of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5042

Assessing California’s Climate Policies: Cap-and-Trade Reauthorization [Publication Details]

May 7, 2025 - This report is intended to help inform legislative decision-making around reauthorization of the cap-and-trade program. It is submitted pursuant to Chapter 135 of 2017 (AB 398, Garcia), which requires our office to report annually on the economic impacts and benefits of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5042

Frequently Asked Questions About Wildfires in California

Jan 28, 2025 -  $25  million annually beginning in 2017 ‑18 to pre ‑position mutual aid fire engines and other related equipment in order to decrease local response times to potentially destructive wildfires and other disasters.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4952

The 2025-26 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Expenditure Plan

Feb 12, 2025 - Before the Legislature last extended the statutory authorization for the cap ‑and ‑trade program in 2017, revenues from GGRF began to decline due to investor uncertainty about the status of the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4960

The 2024-25 Budget: Salton Sea Management Program

Feb 26, 2024 - Nevertheless, reductions are expected to progress and evaporation consistently outpaces inflows, meaning the Sea will continue to  contract. 2002 SWRCB Order Delayed Impacts of Water Transfers Until 2017.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4859

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Residential Electricity Rates in California

Jan 7, 2025 - This report is submitted pursuant to Chapter  135 of 2017 (A B  398 , E. Garcia), which requires our office to report annually on the economic impacts and benefits of the state ’s GHG emissions reduction targets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950

California’s Cap-and-Trade Program: Frequently Asked Questions

Oct 24, 2023 - For example, in 2017, AB  398 added the requirement that half of eligible offsets for the program be from projects that provide direct environmental benefits in California. What Will Happen to the Program After 2030?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4811

Assessing California's Climate Policies—The 2022 Scoping Plan Update

Jan 4, 2023 - This revenue scenario could be somewhat similar to the auction results from 2016 and early 2017, where the state sold very few allowances and generated almost no revenue. (See our report, The 2017‑2018 Budget: Cap‑and‑Trade , for more details.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4656

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Sep 12, 2024 - AB 617 = Chapter 136 of 2017 (AB 617, C. Garcia); CARB = California Air Resources Board; SGC = Strategic Growth Council; OPR = Governor ’s Office of Planning and Research; CalEPA = California Environmental Protection Agency; CEC = California Energy Commission; and GWP  =  Global Warming Potential.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4928