The 2025‑26 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 20, 2024 - The purpose of spike protection is to protect the state budget from needing to sustain inc reases in the guarantee that are the result of temporary revenue spikes. At Key Points, the State Recalculates the Guarantee.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

Update on Student Housing Assistance

May 7, 2024 - For example, the Long Beach, Northridge, and Pomona campuses are all working with Jovenes, Inc., an organization that provides support services to youth exper iencing homelessness in Los Angeles County.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4898

The 2024-25 Budget: Deficit Update

Feb 20, 2024 - For example, in the Great Recession, the programs with some of the largest expenditure reductions were in health and human services, including to Medi-Cal, which provides health coverage to low-income individuals and the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, which provides income assistance to low-inc ome individuals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4850

Proposition 29 [Ballot]

Nov 8, 2022 - Two private for-profit companies —DaVita , Inc. and Fresenius Medical Care —own or operate nearly 75  percent of licensed clinics in California. A variety of nonprofit organizations and for-profit companies own or operate the other clinics.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=29&year=2022

Assessing the Provision of Criminal Indigent Defense

Sep 22, 2022 - This report provides background on the provision of indigent defense in California, discusses existing indigent defense service levels, and makes recommendations to improve the state's oversight of indigent defense.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4623

Chronic dialysis clinics. [Ballot]

Oct 14, 2021 - Two private for-profit companies —DaVita, Inc. and Fresenius Medical Care —are the “governing entity ” of nearly three-quarters of licensed CDCs in California. (The measure refers to the governing entity as the entity that owns or operates the CDC.)
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-013

California gaming activities. [Ballot]

Oct 1, 2021 - In addition, the measure specifies that it entirely conflicts with any other proposed initiatives that address the rights of individuals to gamble in California if they appear on the same statewide ballot, inc luding the above initiative already eligible for the November 2022 ballot.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-009

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - A key strategy for reducing home losses during wildfires is for homeowners to maintain an area free of excess or dead vegetation around their homes, known as defensible space.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457

The 2021-22 Budget: Department of Toxic Substances Control

Mar 19, 2021 - Should the Legislature determine that the specific activities and service levels proposed by the Governor align with its priorities, then it may find the proposed level of tax inc rease to also be reasonable.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4406

Proposition 23 [Ballot]

Nov 3, 2020 - Two private for-profit companies —DaVita, Inc. and Fresenius Medical Care —are the “governing entity ” of nearly three-quarters of licensed CDCs in California. (The measure refers to the governing entity as the entity that owns or operates the CDC.)
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=23&year=2020