Firearms and Ammunition Revenue Update (2025 Q4) [EconTax Blog]

Feb 18, 2026 - Firearms and Ammunition Revenue Update (2025 Q4) [EconTax Blog] Firearms and Ammunition Revenue Update (2025 Q4) February 18, 2026 Seth Kerstein Beginning July 2024, Chapter 231 of 2023 (AB 28, Gabriel) imposed an 11 percent excise tax on retail sales of firearms, firearm precursor parts, and ammunition, with some exemptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/849

Firearms and Ammunition Revenue Update (2025 Q4) [EconTax Blog]

Feb 18, 2026 - Firearms and Ammunition Revenue Update (2025 Q4) [EconTax Blog] Firearms and Ammunition Revenue Update (2025 Q4) February 18, 2026 Seth Kerstein Beginning July 2024, Chapter 231 of 2023 (AB 28, Gabriel) imposed an 11 percent excise tax on retail sales of firearms, firearm precursor parts, and ammunition, with some exemptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/849

Firearms and Ammunition Revenue Update (2025 Q3) [EconTax Blog]

Nov 18, 2025 - As Chapter 231 went through the legislative policy process, the administration preliminarily estimated that the new firearm and ammunition excise tax would raise $159 million in 2024-25. The administration lowered its estimate to $103 million in May 2024 and then to $65 million in May 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/842

Firearms and Ammunition Revenue Update (2025 Q3) [EconTax Blog]

Nov 18, 2025 - As Chapter 231 went through the legislative policy process, the administration preliminarily estimated that the new firearm and ammunition excise tax would raise $159 million in 2024-25. The administration lowered its estimate to $103 million in May 2024 and then to $65 million in May 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/842

Firearms and Ammunition Revenue Update (2025 Q2) [EconTax Blog]

Aug 18, 2025 - As Chapter 231 went through the legislative policy process, the administration preliminarily estimated that the new firearm and ammunition excise tax would raise $159 million in 2024-25. In May 2024, the administration revised its estimate to $103 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/836

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - Background For background information on municipal stormwater permits; why CSM considers some requirements to be state-reimbursable mandates; and the role of Proposition  218 (1996), Chapter  536 of 2017 (SB  231, Hertzberg), and court decisions in determining whether local governments had sufficient authority to raise fees to pay for their costs to comply with stormwater permit
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

Firearms and Ammunition Revenue Update (2025 Q1) [EconTax Blog]

May 21, 2025 - As Chapter 231 went through the legislative policy process, the administration preliminarily estimated that the new firearm and ammunition excise tax would raise $159 million in 2024-25. In May 2024, the administration revised its estimate to $103 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/830

The 2025-26 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor's May Revision

May 17, 2025 - This change increases ongoing General Fund costs by $267  million for UC and $231  million for CSU. Rebenching Proposition   98 for Wildfire ‑Related Property Tax Losses. The May Revision proposes rebenching the Proposition  98 minimum funding guarantee to account for property tax revenue losses resulting from the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5044

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

May 5, 2025 - In addition, the court found that SB  231 did not apply retroactively because that legislation did more than clarify the law, it changed the law. Citing previous court decisions, including the 2002 and 2022 appellate court decisions, CSM also concluded that local governments in the Santa Ana case lacked sufficient authority to raise fees during the historic period and that SB  231 did not apply retroactively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

Mar 10, 2025 - In 2015 ‑16, CLSF ’s workforce totaled 231 individuals. By 2024 ‑25, this total had grown to 278 individuals (increasing by 21  percent). This growth is in line with the growth in enrollment over the same period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5014