The 2015-16 Budget: Health Benefits for Retired State Employees - Health Benefits for Retired State Employees: Recommendations [Video]

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The 2015-16 Budget: Health Benefits for Retired State Employees - Health Benefits for Retired State Employees: Background [Video]

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The 2022-23 Budget: Assessing Proposals to Address Unemployment Insurance Fraud

Feb 15, 2022 - The continued decline in new PUA claims after the state instituted ID. me —as shown in Figure  2 above —suggests that ID.me may have further reduced the viability of fraudulent claims. …But Took Other Actions Inconsistent With Strike Team Call to Reassess Stance on Fraud.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Sep 12, 2019 - Specifically, across the levels I through V of the Attorney and Deputy Attorney General series, 15  percent of the 3,700 positions were vacant as of August 30, 2019. Among these classifications, the entry-level Attorney classification had the highest vacancy rate —19  percent —while the most senior classifications (Attorney V and Deputy Attorney General V) had the lowest vacancy rates (less than 9  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4095

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Control Section 3.90 of the 2025-26 budget (as added by Chapter 5 of 2025 [AB 102, Gabriel]) established an expectation of the Legislature that all 21 of the state’s bargaining units would meet and confer in good faith with the administration before July 1, 2025 to achieve savings assumed in the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians)

Sep 7, 2023 - In February 2006, after finding that the state had failed to provide a constitutional level of medical care to people in prison, a federal court (in the case now referred to as Plata v. Newsom) appointed a Receiver to take control over the direct management of the state ’s prison medical care delivery system from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4801

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - Control Section 3.90 of the 2025-26 budget (as added by Chapter 5 of 2025 [AB 102, Gabriel]) established an expectation of the Legislature that all 21 of the state’s bargaining units would meet and confer in good faith with the administration before July 1, 2025 to achieve savings assumed in the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

The 2017-18 Budget: Funding Public Works Labor Enforcement

Mar 3, 2017 - In our v iew, the SPWEF, funded by fees paid only by contractors that are subject to prevailing wage requirements, is a preferable long-term funding source. Ideally, the prevailing wage determination function would eventually shift back to the SPWEF as compliance with the contractor registration requirement improves and fee revenues increase.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3603

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 19 (Health and Social Services/Professional)

Sep 1, 2023 - While there currently is one authorized position in this classification, the administration’s fiscal estimates indicate that the administration proposes adding 10.5 additional positions in the classification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4797

COVID-19: Unemployment Insurance for Workers Impacted by COVID-19

Mar 23, 2020 - In December, 2020, H.R. 133 re-instituted the weekly $300 added benefit for January 1, 2021 to March  14, 2021. On March  11, 2021, H.R. 1319 extended the weekly $300 added benefit through September 6, 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4208