The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 23, 2020 - “Pop-Up ” Child Care Facilities. CCL implemented a statewide waiver in March  2020 to allow temporary employer-sponsored child care facilities, or pop-up facilities, for employers whose essential workers may experience lack of access to child care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4286/6

Taxation of Sugary Drinks

Nov 26, 2018 - Taxes on sugary drinks have become increasingly common in recent years. In June 2018, the Legislature passed a law (Chapter 61 of 2018 [AB 1838, Committee on Budget]) prohibiting local governments from levying such taxes (and other taxes on groceries) through 2030. The law stated the Legislature’s intent to regulate the imposition and collection of such taxes to the exclusion of local action.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3903

"Fair Vote 2K"

The proposed redistricting criteria specifies that all new districts to be drawn are to be geographically compact and that all districts for the same legislative office vary in pop ulation by less than 1  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/1999/990792_INT.html

2001 Initiative Analysis: California Clemency Board

If inmates receive clemency through the process established in this measure, the state may incur lower prison operation costs due to a reduction in the prison pop ulation. The magnitude of the reduction in prison operation costs is dependent upon the number and type of clemency actions taken by the local boards.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2001/010935_INT.htm

LAO 2003-04 Budget Analysis: Education, California Postsecondary Education Commission (6420)

However, it is up to the segments themselves to establish and periodically adjust their admissions criteria in a way that captures the target pop ulations. In order to gage how well the segments are doing this, existing law requires CPEC to "periodically " estimate the percentages of California public high school graduates that are eligible for admission to UC and CSU.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2003/education/hied_06_6420_anl03.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Department of the Youth Authority (5460)

We expect these changes would have the effect of decreasing the ward pop ulation. For this reason, we recommend the Legislature direct the Youth Authority to incorporate into its spring population projections an estimate of the impact of the Governor's policy proposals on the Youth Authority's future population.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/crim_justice/cj_08_5460_anl05.htm

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

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: Perspectives on the Economy and Demographics Summary

This speculative bubble has now popped and the housing market is currently in the painful process of deflating. Based on past experience with real estate bubbles of this sort in the state, the full process of adjustment can take a number of years until housing prices return to sustainable levels and excessive housing inventories are worked off.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/2008_pandi/pi_anl08002.aspx