The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Chapter 115 (SB 162, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) appropriated from the General Fund an unspecified amount to county elections officials and the Secretary of State for the “actual and reasonably necessary costs, as determined by the Director of Finance,” to conduct the election.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2017-18 Budget: Evaluating the State-County Assessors' Partnership Agreement Program

Mar 27, 2017 - The number of these reevaluations completed per staff member declined by 100 (from 215 to  115) in SCAPAP counties, while declining by only about 70 (from 210 to 140) in nonparticipating counties. There are other possible explanations for these trends —for example, some staff effort in SCAPAP counties may have been diverted to training newly hired staff —but we cannot rule out that a shift in workload from existing staff to newly hired staff occurred.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3632

Building Reserves to Prepare for a Recession

Mar 7, 2018 - We estimate that revenue losses, in inflation ‑adjusted terms, totaled roughly $ 40  b illion in the 1990s (averaging $ 8  b illion per year across five years), $ 80  b illion in the early 2000s ($ 26  b illion per year across three years), and about $ 115  b illion during and after the Great Recession ($ 30  b illion per year across four years).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3769

The 2021-22 Budget: Business Tax Incentives

Jan 28, 2021 - Regulatory soft cap: $10  million of exemption per year (roughly $115  million of equipment). Statutory hard cap: $200  million of equipment per year (roughly $8  million of exemption). How to claim.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4327