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

May 5, 2025 - Notably, Proposition  218 did not define what activities are encompassed by “sewer services. ” A 2017 State Law Defined “Sewer, ” Making Fee Increases Less Burdensome. Chapter  536 of 2017 (SB  231, Hertzberg) explicitly defined sewer to include both sanitary and stormwater systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

Considering the State's Role in Elections - How Do Elections Work Today? [Video]

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video How Do Elections Work Today? May 3, 2017
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The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government

Oct 22, 2025 - Under the California Dream for All model, borrowers do not make any payments on their downpayment loan until the home is sold or paid off. At tha t time, they will owe the original loan amount plus a certain percentage of the increase in home value.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Beginning in 2018, Chapter  681 of 2017 (SB  395, Lara) required that arrested youths age 15 and younger be provided a consultation with legal counsel before they may waive their Miranda rights or be interrogated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2017-18 Budget: Local Update of Census Address Program Overview

Mar 23, 2017 - The 2017-18 Budget: Local Update of Census Address Program Overview The 2017-18 Budget Local Update of Census Address Program Overview Decennial Census. Since 1790, the United States has conducted a census every ten years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3629

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

May 30, 2025 - Additional details about the mandate are as follows: Time Period in Question: November 10, 2010 to December 31, 2017. CSM ’s Estimated Statewide Cost to Reimburse Local Governments: Between $238,301 and $334,104.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2018-19 Budget: County Assessor Funding

Feb 15, 2018 - Doing so would mean that each county would pay a share of costs for the upgrade that is proportionate to their share of any new revenue generated from the upgrade. Focusing on technology upgrades also would have a few advantages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3756

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

Feb 20, 2019 - In our 2017 r eport, Do Communities Adequately Plan for Housing? , we laid out evidence that the housing element process falls well short of its objective of ensuring that communities accommodate needed home building.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

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

Mar 4, 2020 - The law requires employee representatives and employers to do specific activities within specific time frames to set up the fact-finding panel and to aid the panel in its work. The fact-finding panel makes findings of fact and recommends advisory terms of settlement to the parties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4190

Considering the State's Role in Elections - What is the State’s Role in Elections? [Video]

May 3, 2017
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