The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This foundation operates the Imagination Library, which mails books free of charge to children under age five. Proposition  2 (2024) Workload. The budget provides DGS $59.5  million over 5 years (including $12.5  million in 2025-26) from the 2024 State School Facilities Fund and $356,000 ongoing from various funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2025-26 Budget: Update on Implementation of New Firearm and Ammunition Tax

Feb 19, 2025 - Providing an amount less than $75  million annually could still provide CalVIP with a sizeable increase in stable funding —while freeing up some monies to support lower priority Chapter  231 programs, such as those at the judicial branch or DOJ.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

The 2018-19 Budget: California Earned Income Tax Credit Education and Outreach

May 8, 2018 - The VITA program is an IRS initiative that supports free federal and state tax preparation assistance to individuals with a limited income (generally under $54,000). In 2018, there were more than 850 VITA sites in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3826

The 2018-19 May Revision: LAO Economic Outlook

May 12, 2018 - The federal administration currently is renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, an agreement that eliminates many barriers to the exchange of goods among the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. These negotiations are ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3829

The 2022-23 Budget: Fuel Price and Other Fiscal Relief Options

May 12, 2022 - Provide free transit services. a a Included in Governor ’s proposed package of actions. b Governor proposed deferring scheduled inflation increases to gasoline and diesel excise tax rates in 2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4597

Evaluating the Sale-Leaseback Proposal: Should the State Sell Its Office Buildings? [Publication Details]

Apr 27, 2010 - The sale-leaseback is designed to free up the state’s equity in the buildings to provide one-time revenue for addressing the state’s current budgetary shortfall. We estimate that the sale of buildings would result in one-time revenue to the state of between $600 million and $1.4 billion, but that annual leasing costs would eventually exceed ownership costs by approximately $200 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2261

The 2019-20 May Revision: Sales Tax Exemptions for Diapers and Menstrual Products

May 12, 2019 - Public schools Relatively high ‑poverty middle schools and high schools must provide free menstrual products. Human Services Eligibility criteria and grant amounts not adjusted for menstrual expenses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4040

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—State Earned Income Tax Credit Expansion

May 14, 2018 - FTB uses these resources to educate taxpayers and tax preparers broadly about the state EITC and free tax preparation services. As we describe in our earlier analysis , the Legislature augmented FTB’s budget in 2016‑17 and 2017‑18 by $2 million for grants to other organizations to expand awareness of the EITC.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3835

Comparing Taxes on Cannabis to Taxes on Other Products in California

Dec 17, 2019 - Second, under a new law that takes effect January 1, 2020 (Chapter  837, Statutes of 2019 [SB  34, Wiener]), medical cannabis products that businesses donate to consumers free of charge (and that meet other conditions) are fully exempt from the state ’s cannabis excise taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4123

The 2023-24 Budget: Considering Inflation's Effects on State Programs

Nov 16, 2022 - In other cases, pausing automatic adjustments could free up resources and mitigate the need for reductions. If the Legislature wants to provide new inflation adjus tments in some areas in response to higher prices, the size of the budget problem will increase, meaning corresponding reductions to other areas also would be required.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4647