2002 Budget Analysis: Health and Social Services, Tobacco Settlement Fund

List of TSF-Supported Programs Would Change The budget makes significant changes in the line-up of health programs that would receive support from the Tobacco Settlement Fund (TSF ) . The Legislature should consider whether the programs selected to receive dedicated funding from the TSF are in-line with its own health program priorities and how
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2002/health_ss/healthss_04_CC_TSF_anl02.htm

2002 Budget Analysis: Health and Social Services, Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board (4280)

If the parent expansion, as currently approved by the federal government, were implemented on July 1, 2002 it would cost the state an estimated $96  million (TSF) in the budget year and provide health coverage for about 187,000 parents.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2002/health_ss/healthss_09_4280_anl02.htm

LAO 2003-04 Budget Analysis: Health and Social Services, Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board (4280)

Nevertheless, the budget assumes that $220  million in proceeds from the TSF will be available on a one-time basis in 2003-04 to help fund the Healthy Families Program. The 2003-04 Governor's Budget assumes that the state can sell a sufficient amount of tobacco bonds to both raise the $4.5  billion in cash and have enough left over to prepay the 2003-04 debt service costs on the bonds.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2003/health_ss/hss_7_4280_anl03.htm

^[PDF] LAO 2003 Budget Analysis: Health & Social Services Chapter

In addition, the administration has proposed to shift $10.5 mil- lion from MRMIB programs formerly supported by the Tobacco Settle- ment Fund (TSF) to the General Fund due to the securitization of the TSF revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2003/health_ss/healthss_anl03.pdf

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - After the dot-com bust and the Great Recession, it took four and five years, respectively, for revenues to recover. Incorporating revenue risk into the budget now, therefore, reflects prudence, not pessimism.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

Oversight of certain public benefit artificial intelligence (AI) companies. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - The measure would have the following major fiscal effects: Increased state costs that would likely be in the tens of millions of dollars annually to establish and operate a new regulatory commission overseeing certain public benefit AI com panies.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-033

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - For California, the dot ‑com era —when stocks rose and then fell precipitously in response to widespread adoption of the internet —offers the most salient example. The internet has proven to be a transformative technology and, yet, the stock market ’s initial reaction was clearly overly exuberant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

^[PDF] Overview on Poverty

Despite its fl aws, the poverty thresholds allow researchers and policy makers to examine trends over time using a consistent measure.  Substantial Changes Set for 2011. In September 2011, the Census Bureau will publish two sets of poverty data.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/socservices/2011/Poverty_Overview_05_10_11.pdf