The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget assumes reductions to CDFA ’s budget of $11  million ($9.8  million General Fund) authorized by Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12 of the budget act. This includes $8.2  million ($7  million General Fund) in efficiency reductions and $2.8  million General Fund in vacant position reductions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - For example, if California had had equivalently sized reserves going into the Great Recession, it still would have required a federal loan, but that loan would have been $5 billion rather than $11 billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

Overview of Efforts to Modernize EDD’s Benefit Systems [Publication Details]

Feb 24, 2026 - Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on State Administration
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5135

2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Revenues [Publication Details]

Feb 6, 2009 - 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Revenues [Publication Details] 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Revenues Format: HTML Description: To assist the Legislature in resolving the 2009‑10 budget gap, we developed a list of proposals that would raise more than $5 billion in each of 2009‑10 and 2010‑11.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1923

The 2017-18 Budget: The Board of Equalization

Mar 7, 2017 - The administration requests $0.3 million in 2017-18 and $0.2 million in 2018-19 and ongoing for BOE to implement two of the laws described above: ABx2-11 and SBx2-5. Ongoing Workload Uncertain Due to Data Limitations...
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3609

Building Reserves to Prepare for a Recession

Mar 7, 2018 - Under Proposition  2, the state must put money into the BSA until its total reaches a maximum amount of 10  p ercent of General Fund tax revenue. Currently, this is about $13. 5  b illion. Once the BSA reaches this maximum, funds that would bring the BSA above 10  p ercent of General Fund taxes must be spent on infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3769

Managing California’s Cash

Sep 3, 2019 - Had the proposal been adopted, the state would have had to repay the $5. 5  b illion of RAWs with interest by the end of 2010 ‑11. In effect, this would have shifted this part of the budget problem one year into the future.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4092

Local Sales Tax Rebates in 2023-24

Sep 16, 2025 - For example, to encourage a retailer to set up shop in a city, the city could refund half of the Bradley-Burns tax paid by the retailer. If retailers respond strongly to these rebates, then cities providing them could end up with higher revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5074

The 2023-24 Budget: Multiyear Budget Outlook

May 23, 2023 - Under our outlook, Proposition  98 General Fund spending on schools and community colleges is $89  billion in 2026 ‑ 27 —nearly $12  billion above our projected 2023 ‑24 level and $5  billion higher than the administration ’s projection for 2026 ‑27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4772

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of Proposed Earned Income Tax Credit Expansion

Mar 6, 2019 - DOF estimates that this will make the credit available to up to 1  m illion new workers and would cost $ 70  m illion in 2019 ‑ 20 i f implemented alone. Of these new workers, about 70  p ercent would have no dependents.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3960