MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Between 2000-01 and 2024-25, the state ’s inflation-adjusted General Fund pay-as-you-go cost towards these benefits increased by more than 250  percent to $2.8  billion. The largest factors driving these cost increases have been (1)  the rapid growth in health premiums and (2)  the growing number of people receiving the benefit as more employees retire and people live longer in retirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - Between 2000-01 and 2024-25, the state ’s inflation-adjusted General Fund pay-as-you-go cost towards these benefits increased by more than 250  percent to $2.8  billion. The largest factors driving these cost increases have been (1)  the rapid growth in health premiums and (2)  the growing number of people receiving the benefit as more employees retire and people live longer in retirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 12 (Craft and Maintenance)

Jun 27, 2025 - Between 2000-01 and 2024-25, the state ’s inflation-adjusted General Fund pay-as-you-go cost towards these benefits increased by more than 250  percent to $2.8  billion. The largest factors driving these cost increases have been (1)  the rapid growth in health premiums and (2)  the growing number of people receiving the benefit as more employees retire and people live longer in retirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: CalSTRS Funding Plan Relies on Abstract Calculation

Feb 2, 2016 - Specifically, the calculation estimates what CalSTRS ’ unfunded liabilities would be if (1) the state never granted teachers more generous pensions in the late 1990s and (2) contributions to CalSTRS ’ main pension fund had not been decreased when CalSTRS was fully funded around 2000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3333

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Between 2000-01 and 2024-25, the state ’s inflation-adjusted General Fund pay-as-you-go cost towards these benefits increased by more than 250  percent to $2.8  billion. The largest factors driving these cost increases have been (1)  the rapid growth in health premiums and (2)  the growing number of people receiving the benefit as more employees retire and people live longer in retirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

The 2017-18 Budget: Governor’s CalPERS Borrowing Proposal

May 16, 2017 - For much of the late 1990s and 2000s, the yield averaged around 6  percent, although it fell after the dot-com bust and ensuing recession in the early 2000s. After the rate fell in 2008, it has remained near zero as inflation and U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3673

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - Under state law (Sections 21362 and 21362.2 of the Government Code), an employee’s pension benefit is limited to 90 percent of final compensation for patrol members who retire directly from the state on or after January 1, 2000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

The 2022-23 Budget: UC Climate-Related Proposals

Feb 16, 2022 - Most notably, the state established four California Institutes for Science and Innovation at UC in 2000 supporting various applied science industries. The state provided one ‑time General Fund to support the construction of the institutes, and today the institutes receive ongoing General Fund support for their operations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4538

CalSTRS Funding: An Update

May 5, 2017 - Generally, the calculation estimates what CalSTRS ’ unfunded liabilities would be if (1) the state had not granted teachers more generous pensions in the late 1990s and (2) state and teacher contributions to CalSTRS ’ main pension fund had not been decreased when CalSTRS was fully funded around 2000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3662

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Coastal Flooding and Erosion From Rising Sea Levels Sea levels along the California coast are projected to rise by about six inches by 2030 and as much as seven to ten feet by 2100 compared to 2000 levels, depending upon the degree of warming the planet experiences.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575