The 2026-27 Budget: State Mandate—Disclosure Requirements and Deferral of Property Taxation

Feb 19, 2026 - Printing a disclosure about Chapter  712 ’s deferment procedures is no longer relevant given that the option expired more than two years ago and is no longer available to property owners in the county.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5130

California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - Why Doesn’t California Build Enough Housing? [Video]

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California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - Consequences of California's High Housing Costs [Video]

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California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - California's High Housing Costs - Overview [Video]

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The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - Second, any unawarded credits from the previous fiscal year can be added to the pool of available credits for the current fiscal year. Credit Pool Has Ballooned to over $923  million for the Current Year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

How High? Adjusting California’s Cannabis Taxes

Dec 17, 2019 - We determined that this body of evidence could support estimates of the short ‑term effects of tax rate changes on legal consumption and tax revenues, but not estimates of longer ‑term effects or effects on other outcomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4125

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 During the special session called by the Governor, the Legislature added Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 to the 2024-25 Budget Act providing up to $2.5  billion one-time from the General Fund for response and recovery costs related to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Mar 18, 2025 - If the Legislature approves this proposal, we recommend adding explicit requi rements to assess a grant applicant ’s inability to use tax credits. California Regional Initiative for Social Enterprises Grant Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

The 2017-18 Budget: Governor's Gann Limit Proposal

Mar 2, 2017 - The Governor proposes to no longer count $22  billion in state education appropriations toward the state limit. First, the Governor proposes to no longer count under the state limit roughly $14  billion of state funding that cannot be absorbed under school district limits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3596

Overview of Diversity Efforts in the Film Tax Credit Program

May 1, 2025 - One trend of note is that since the inception of the film tax credit, the share of Californians who identify as white only has decreased from 41.5 to 33.3  percent, making white no longer the largest ethnic group in the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5036