The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This change is estimated to reduce state r evenues by $135  million in fiscal year 2025-26 and $85  million annually thereafter. Excludes Wildfire Settlements From State Income Taxation. The budget package provides a blanket exemption for settlements related to any wildfire occurring between tax years 2021 and 2029.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - The NSTC is a cooperative public-private effort to advance semiconductor research and development (R &D). Natcast is the nonprofit organization in charge of the NSTC. Natcast Currently Relies on Federal Funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - Some of these conditions attempt to align the forthcoming May Revision budget proposal (which we discuss later) with the project cost documents o r incorporate additional information that is only available once the primary vendor contract is awarded (such as updated project management and testing plans).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2021-22 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Spending Authorities

Mar 2, 2021 - Our concerns with the Governor ’s proposal to extend DREOA for COVID ‑ 19 r esponse are reflective of the larger problems associated with the state ’s existing emergency spending authorities overall.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4393

The 2021-22 Budget: Peace Officer Training Mandate

Feb 4, 2021 - Specifically , Chapter  469 directed POST to require that FTOs have at least eight hours of crisis intervention behavioral health training by June 2017 o r within 180 days of assignment or appointment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4344

The 2021-22 Budget: Funding for Debt Collector Licensing and Regulation

Feb 17, 2021 - In addition, because the department is still in the process of drafting S B   908 r egulations, it had to make assumptions about the level of staff time and resources needed to license and regulate debt collectors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4376

The 2020-21 Budget: The Governor’s Cannabis‑Related Proposals

Feb 14, 2020 - We recommend that the Legislature consider other additional changes to the state ’s cannabis tax structure and rates, consistent with our December 2019 r eport, How High? Adjusting California’s Cannabis Taxes .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4162

The 2020-21 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 11, 2020 - The Governor suggests some criteria that DSS could use when deciding how to allocate funds among regional administrators, including ( 1)  p oint ‑in ‑time homelessness counts, ( 2)  r ent burden among low ‑income households, ( 3)  r egional housing need estimates for low ‑ and very low ‑income housing, and ( 4)  r acial equity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4152

Evaluation of the Statewide Project Management Office

Dec 7, 2017 - Specifically, CDT ’s new eligibility policy narrows direct PMO services to ( 1)  a ll non ‑reportable projects, ( 2)  r eportable projects only during the project approval process (known as the Project Approval Lifecycle [PAL]), and ( 3)   r eportable projects that have completed the PAL process but are determined by CDT to be “low ‑complexity, ” and therefore receive very limited oversight from CDT.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3723

The 2019-20 Budget: May Revision Multiyear Budget Outlook

May 17, 2019 - Our outlook assumes the state faces no major disaster in the coming years, such as an earthquake or catastrophic wildfire, similar to the Camp, Woolsey, and Hill fires that occurred in November 2018 o r the Tubbs wildfire in October 2017.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4050