The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Costs of the Program Have Increased Significantly Since Fiscal Year 2001 ‑02 … Looking back over the last couple of decades, as seen in Figure  1 , the IHSS program has experienced significant growth in total and General  Fund costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - Over the next eight years, growth rates fluctuated between 3  percent and 8  percent, until reaching a peak growth rate of 10.2  percent and 10.4  percent in 2001-02 and 2002-03, respectively. Caseload growth then hovered between 4.5  percent and 8  percent for the next six years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

Updated "Big Three" Revenue Outlook [EconTax Blog]

Aug 21, 2023 - Not long after the big upgrade in May 2000, revenues dropped $13 billion (18 percent) in 2001-02. After the May 2006 upgrade, revenues were flat in 2007-08 and then dropped $16 billion (17 percent) in 2008-09.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/777

Updated "Big Three" Revenue Outlook [EconTax Blog]

Aug 21, 2023 - Not long after the big upgrade in May 2000, revenues dropped $13 billion (18 percent) in 2001-02. After the May 2006 upgrade, revenues were flat in 2007-08 and then dropped $16 billion (17 percent) in 2008-09.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/777

The 2022-23 Budget: Middle Class Scholarship Program

Mar 30, 2022 - (Whereas the access award covered roughly 15  percent of the living costs of a student living off campus in 2001 ‑02, it covers an estimated 7  percent today.) Under the revamped MCS program, the state will cover a larger share of students ’ living costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4581

Public sector unions and collective bargaining. [Ballot]

Sep 28, 2021 - If this employee earns $60,000 in their final year of service before retiri ng after working 18 years for the state, the employee will retire with an annual pension of $21,600 (18 x .02 x 60,000). This pension may increase by up to 2 percent each year, depending on actual inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-008

The 2020-21 Budget: Medical Education Analysis

Feb 20, 2020 - In 2001 ‑02, the state appropriated funds to construct a new Fresno facility to house these programs, and, in 2005, UCSF Fresno moved into the new 87,700 square foot facility adjacent to a Fresno medical center.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4166

Medical Malpractice Cases [Ballot]

Nov 15, 2019 - Since medical malpractice costs are currently about 1  percent of total health care spending, raising or removing the cap on noneconomic damages would likely increase total health care spending —based on our very rough estimates —by .02  percent to 0.3  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2019-018

The 2019-20 Budget: Increasing Compliance With Unclaimed Property Law

Mar 15, 2019 - For comparison, this represented about a quarter of property escheated in 2000 ‑01 and 2001 ‑02. Option Would Address Willful Noncompliance. Conducting audits —as the Governor proposes —is one way to address the problem of willful noncompliance, but it is a narrow solution to a wide ‑ranging problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3978

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 13, 2019 - Proposition   56 r evenues dedicated to Medi ‑Cal are projected to be $1. 02  b illion in 2019 ‑20, and to decline on annual basis thereafter. Moreover, scheduled changes in the FMAP for certain populations will increase the state ’s share of cost for Medi ‑Cal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3935