The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government

Oct 22, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget Act appropriates $100  million one-time General Fund for Round 5 of the ERF initiative —consistent with an agreement between the Legislature and Governor as part of June 2024 negotiations over the final 2024-25 Budget Act .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

May 5, 2025 - Since 2016, the water boa rds have been trying to design permits in a way that minimizes creation of state-reimbursable mandates while also continuing to enforce state and federal water quality laws.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

May 30, 2025 - Background For background information on municipal stormwater permits; why CSM considers some requirements to be state-reimbursable mandates; and the role of Proposition  218 (1996), Chapter  536 of 2017 (SB  231, Hertzberg), and court decisions in determining whether local governments had sufficient authority to raise fees to pay for their costs to comply with stormwater permit requirements,
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2023-24 Budget: County of Los Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission Mandate

May 2, 2023 - Subsequently, with the passage of Chapter  784 of 2016 (SB  1108, Allen), existing law now allows any county or general law city to establish an independent redistricting commission. County of Los Angeles Redistricting.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

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

Feb 20, 2019 - In 2017, the Legislature enacted Chapter  5 (S B  1 , Beall) which increased state revenue for transportation by about $ 5  b illion per year. Under this funding package, cities and counties receive around $1. 5  b illion annually to fund maintenance of local streets and roads.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

SB 1 Has Doubled Major Source of State Funding for Local Streets and Roads

Jan 24, 2020 - In the fiscal ye ar prior to the passage of SB  1 (2016 ‑17), $1.3  billion was distributed to cities and counties as shared revenues, which was 19  percent of the total funding made available for local streets and roads.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4142

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - Revenue from the annual mobilehome registration fee has declined significantly since 2016 ‑17. In 2021 ‑22, the administration estimates the fee will generate $3  million. Current revenues are insufficient to support the current program objectives.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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

Mar 4, 2020 - (To learn more about RRM see our March  17, 2016 analysis in The 2016-17 Budget: Local Government Mandates—Reasonable Reimbursement Methodology .) Recommendation Fund Mandate. The intent of Chapter  712 was to promote increased victim reporting of crime and cooperation in the investigation and prosecution of crimes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4192

Sheriff Court-Security Services Mandate

May 27, 2016 - Sheriff Court-Security Services Mandate May 27, 2016 Sheriff Court-Security Services Mandate State law tasks the Commission on State Mandates with determining whether new state laws or regulations affecting local governments create state-reimbursable mandates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3478

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - As shown in Figure  6 , from 2017 ‑18 through 2019 ‑20, the state averaged more than 1,600 schools closed due to wildfires annually, compared to an annual average of about 70 schools from 2008‑09 to 2016‑17.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575