California New Car Registrations: March 2025 [EconTax Blog]

May 9, 2025 - For example, although registrations in March 2025 were strong compared to the last couple years, they remained 4.5 percent lower than in March 2019.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/828

California New Car Registrations: March 2025 [EconTax Blog]

May 9, 2025 - For example, although registrations in March 2025 were strong compared to the last couple years, they remained 4.5 percent lower than in March 2019.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/828

The 2025-26 Budget: Scholarshare Investment Board

Apr 30, 2025 - The state created the CalKIDS program in the 2019-20 budget package. Under the program, SIB opens college savings accounts and makes deposits for eligible children (discussed in more detail below). The deposits are invested so they have the potential to grow over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5035

The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - In 2023-24, each county received their highest SB  678 grant award from the prior three fiscal years (2018-19, 2019-20, or 2020-21) due to concerns that grant awards would fluctuate for reasons unrelated to performance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Rethinking California's Reserve Policy

Apr 10, 2025 - While the state neared this cap in the 2019 ‑20 budget, the cap has only been operative twice: in 2022 ‑23 and 2023 ‑24. All  told, had there not been a cap on constitutional deposits, the state would have deposited about $2  billion more in reserves.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5028

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - On December 23, 2019, Governor Newsom terminated 61 states of emergency dating back to January 2011. All of these states of emergency were proclaimed under the previous administration but had not been  terminated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2025-26 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 18, 2025 - The use of online and other distance education at CCC remains significantly above pre-pandemic levels, accounting for an estimated 42  percent of full-time equivalent (FTE) students in fall 2024, compared to 17  percent in fall 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5017

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - As Figure  2 shows, the gap between California and the national average steadily closed from 2005 to 2019, but has remained relatively flat since 2019. The gap between the state and the national average is driven by the outcomes for economically disadvantaged students, which NAEP defines as students with family incomes below 130  percent of the federal poverty level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library

Mar 7, 2025 - Since creation of the special fund account, the Legislature has reauthorized the associated appellate filing fee rate six times, with the most recent reauthorization occurring in 2019. One of those reauthorizations (in 1999) raised the fee allocated to the law lib rary from $50 to $65.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5013

The 2025-26 Budget: Understanding Recent Increases in the Medi-Cal Senior Caseload

Mar 6, 2025 - The 2019 ‑20 budget package eliminated this share of cost for seniors and persons with disabilities up to 138  percent of FPL, consistent with the eligibility rules for children and adults through age 64.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010