The 2023-24 Budget: Considering Inflation's Effects on State Programs

Nov 16, 2022 - In some other areas of the budget, the state provides lump sum amounts —sometimes referred to as block grants —to other entities of government, which those entities manage as part of their own budgets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4647

The 2017-18 Budget: An Overview of the Governor's Proposition 56 Proposals

Feb 22, 2017 - Though Superior Court decisions generally are not binding precedent, one California Superior Court decision ( Children and Families Commission of Fresno County et al. v. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., et  al ) considered issues concerning supplantation of funds related to Proposition  10 (1998), another voter ‑approved tobacco measure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3573

Do Communities Adequately Plan for Housing?

Mar 8, 2017 - Residents often push back against projections of future housing needs, question whether it is their community ’s responsibility to accommodate such growth, and attempt to block necessary zoning changes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3605

Building Reserves to Prepare for a Recession

Mar 7, 2018 - In a 2003 decision in Paterno v. California , a state appellate court found the state was responsible for a levee failure along the Yuba River in 1986. The state eventually paid a $ 464  m illion settlement to the nearly 3, 000 p laintiffs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3769