The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - Citing previous court decisions, including the 2002 and 2022 appellate court decisions, CSM also concluded that local governments in the Santa Ana case lacked sufficient authority to raise fees during the historic period and that SB  231 did not apply retroactively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - HCD has completed program design and intends to issue the NOFA in March  2022, with awards starting October 2022. Governor ’s 2022 ‑23 Budget Proposal Expands and Augments Funding for Portfolio Reinvestment Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 9, 2022 - A statutorily mandated interim report is due to the Legislature July 1, 2022 and a final assessment is due by December 31, 2022. In addition, the budget provided $4  million one ‑time General Fund to support further development of HDIS, which would allow the state to access and compile more standardized data collected by CoCs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government

Oct 22, 2025 - The 2025-26 augmentation will be the third round of funding for this program (with $500  million authorized in 2022-23 and $20  million in 2023-24). Funding for Affordable Housing. The budget provides $120  million one-time General Fund for the Multifamily Housing Program (MHP), HCD ’s flagship affordable housing program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate The 2022-23 Budget Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate Summary. The Governor ’s budget proposal includes $18.4  million in one ‑time General Fund to reimburse certain local governments in Los Angeles County for costs related to the Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges mandate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Additionally, the Commission estimates that the annual costs for the mandate could range between $19,000 and $1  million starting in 2022-23. Governor ’s Budget Governor Funds Mandate Reimbursement Costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2018-19 Budget: County Assessor Funding

Feb 15, 2018 - In a 2022 report to the Legislature, DOF would use this data to estimate the extent to which SSCAP funding resulted in higher property tax collections. Specifically, DOF would track the increase in taxable property values attributable to tasks completed by employees hired using SSCAP funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3756

An Initial Look at Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Local Government Fiscal Condition

May 12, 2021 - The picture will beco me more clear next year when the Legislature considers the state ’s 2022 ‑ 23 b udget after the SCO has published local governments ’ 2019 ‑20 financial data and clearer still when the Legislature considers the state ’s 2023 ‑ 24 b udget after the SCO has published local governments ’ 2020 ‑21 financial data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - The Insurance Commissioner proposed a regulation in February  2022 that would require insurance companies to incorporate these mitigations in their rate setting, to provide information about wildfire risk to homeowners, and to create a process through which homeowners may correct or appeal the insurers ’ assessment of this risk.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Moreover, 2022 already experienced the driest consecutive January and February in the Sierra Nevada, based on records dating back over 100 years. Droughts have widespread impacts across the state, including mandatory water use restrictions, reductions in agricultural crop production, over ‑pumping of groundwater —which damages infrastructure from land sinking and dries up domestic wells in some communities —and degraded habitats for fish and wildlife.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575