The 2019-20 Budget: What Can Be Done to Improve Local Planning for Housing?

Feb 20, 2019 - Given this, offering rewards to cities and counties in hopes of boosting housing production seems like a risky bet. If the Legislature were to allocate funding for rewards, it cannot be sure what effect, if any, such a program would have on home building.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - State law tasks the Commission on State Mandates (Commission) with determining whether new state laws or regulations affecting local governments create state-reimbursable mandates. Typically, the process for determining whether a law or regulation is a state-reimbursable mandate takes several years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2020-21 Budget: U-Visa I-918 Form Mandate

Mar 4, 2020 - State law tasks the Commission on State Mandates with determining whether new state laws or regulations affecting local governments create state-reimbursable mandates. Typically, the process for determining whether a law or regulation is a state-reimbursable mandate takes several years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4192

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - This is because from 2018 onward, local governments have had sufficient authority to raise fees to pay for the costs of compliance due to the statutory chan ges that took effect at that time —thereby making it so the state is not required to reimburse local governments for their costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2020-21 Budget: Local Agency Employee Organizations, Impasse Procedures II

Mar 4, 2020 - State law tasks the Commission on State Mandates (the Commission) with determining whether new state laws or regulations affecting local governments create state-reimbursable mandates. Typically, the process for determining whether a law or regulation is a state-reimbursable mandate takes several years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4190

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - State law tasks the Commission on State Mandates (CSM) with determining whether new state laws or regulations affecting local governments create state-reimbursable mandates. Typically, the process for determining whether a law or regulation is a state-reimbursable mandate takes several years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Housing and Homelessness

Oct 17, 2019 - New Process for Housing Element Compliance.   The budget package creates a new judicial process by which cities and counties can be fined for failing to comply with housing element law. Moreover, the courts can appoint an agent of the court to bring the jurisdiction ’s housing element into compliance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4102

Post Election Manual Tally Mandate

Jan 13, 2016 - Coinciding with the 2008 presidential election, the Secretary of State adopted emergency regulations (Post Election Manual Tallies, California Code of Regulations, Title 2, Chapter 3, 2008) pertaining to elections conducted in whole or in part on voting systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3327

The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - State law tasks the commission with determining whether new state laws or regulations affecting local agencies create state ‑reimbursable mandates. If the commission determines that a statute or regulation contains a reimbursable mandate, it  develops an estimate of the statewide cost of the mandated activity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Minimum Fire Safe Regulations. These regulations include requirements for Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones and the State  Responsibility Area, such as for ingress/egress, signage, and fuel reduction.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584