The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - While loans issued under Control Section 14.00 typically must be repaid within two years, the 2025-26 Budget Act included provisional language extending the repayment period for any loans to the BPPE Fund until June 30, 2032.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance

Mar 18, 2026 - Review and approve COE budgets and Local Control and Accountability Plans. Support the State Board of Education. Prepare information for board hearings and develop draft regulations for the board to review and adopt.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight [Publication Details]

Mar 18, 2026 - This report discusses the State Water Resources Control Board’s (SWRCB’s) proposed—and long-overdue—update of the water quality control plan for the San Francisco Bay-Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which includes an alternative compliance pathway for certain water users called voluntary agreements (VAs, also known as Healthy Rivers and Landscapes).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5163

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - Water Quality Control Plans Are a Key Mechanism for Regulating Water Quality. Under state and federal law, SWRCB —along with its nine Regional Water Quality Control Boards —develops water quality control plans to regulate and protect water quality in California ’s major water basins, including the Delta.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Moreover, with a share of cost, counties have an incentive to control program costs in areas over which they have more control (like administration). To achieve these benefits, we believe realignments need to follow certain core principles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - Assuming that the Lanterman Act continues to serve as the foundational policy for the state ’s developmental services system, the Legislature generally has relatively limited discretion to control spending growth by adjusting caseload or utilization.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - (For a detailed discussion of these two control sections, refer to our February 2025 post, The 2025-26 Budget: State Departments’ Operational Efficiencies [Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12] .) Both control sections assumed that savings would materialize from an internal administrative exercise coordinated by DOF.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

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 - This  is the same COLA rate the Governor proposes for the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) for school districts. Assessment Covering Higher Apportionments Costs in 2025 ‑26 Is Reasonable. Although the state is not required to increase current ‑year apportionments funding when costs come in higher than projected, providing such an increase is a reasonable way to help districts address their core operating costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150