The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Proposals

Mar 19, 2026 - For example, providing less funding for land use policy staff might mean the office tak es longer to respond to CEQA-related requests for technical assistance. If it needs to provide less funding, the Legislature could also consider revisiting LCI ’s statutory requirements, time lines, and associated resource needs —for example, by reducing expectations around how the office should implement the CalHeatScore extreme heat ranking.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

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

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - In negotiating salary increases with their local unions, districts typically account for a number of factors, including the COLA the state is providing for apportionments, changes in housing and other costs for employe es, salary competitiveness, and the need to address non ‑salary cost pressures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System

Feb 27, 2026 - This analysis should compare the options based on the key parameters described above (such as cost and effectiveness of addressing the problems encountered to date) as well as any others deemed relevant by O ES.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

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

Time limits, environmental reviews, and judicial reviews for certain types of infrastructure projects. [Ballot]

Dec 10, 2025 - For example, an EIR provides detailed information to public agenci es and the public about the effects the proposed project likely will have on the environment, potential ways to reduce significant effects, and possible alternatives to the project .
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-023

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

Home building and downpayment assistance. [Ballot]

Oct 6, 2025 - Eligible homes could include single family dwellings, condominiums, townhouses, or certain other typ es of homes. The measure sets a maximum purchase price for a home financed with a middle-class homeownership loan, which in 2025 is roughly equivalent to between $1  million to $1.5  million depending on the county.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-013