The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2024 - The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget $3,135 $4,677 BCH = Secretary for Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency; HHAPP = Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program; FHC = Family Homelessness Challenge Grants; BSCC  =  Board of State and Community Corrections; CalFire = California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection; CalRecycle = California Department of
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Tempered Expectations

Dec 9, 2019 - The good news is that the state’s current budget reserves and annual operating surpluses (where revenues exceed expenditures) provide enough of a fiscal cushion to cover the revenue shortfalls of our recession scenario.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4122

The 2013-14 Budget: Overview of the May Revision - Press Conference Question and Answer [Video]

The 2013-14 Budget: Overview of the May Revision - Press Conference Question and Answer [Video] Search LAO Videos The 2013-14 Budget: Overview of the May Revision May 17, 2013 California Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor discusses his office 's report "The 2013-14 Budget: Overview of the May Revision " with the news media.
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Federal Spending in California

Jan 18, 2017 - In FFY 2013-14, the federal government paid about $45 billion in contracts to private entities in California for the provision of goods and services. Most of these contracts, nearly $34 billion, were procured for goods and services for the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3531/3

The 2019-20 May Revision: Sales Tax Exemptions for Diapers and Menstrual Products

May 12, 2019 - As suggested by the phrase “generally accepted standard of living, ” definitions of necessity often are highly subjective. For example, a 2010 Pew survey estimated that 86  percent of Americans regarded cars as necessities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4040

The 2023-24 Budget: Considering Inflation's Effects on State Programs

Nov 16, 2022 - Cases in which program spending is adjusted by certain factors, like a cost ‑of ‑living adjustment (COLA). These factors are set and approved in state law. These adjustments require limited annual legislative input, particularly when continuously appropriated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4647

The 2026-27 Budget: How to Use One-Time Revenue Improvements

Feb 20, 2026 - Given the recent forecasting differences between our office and the administration, there is a good chance the administration’s revenue upgrade at May Revision will be larger than our current estimate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5133

The 2024-25 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2024 - Together, these scoring differences account for the roughly $27  billion difference in our office ’s accounting of the budget problem and the administration ’s scoring. While we would maintain that our approach more accurately reflects current law, these scoring differences do not reflect substantive differences in state ’s fiscal position.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4902

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - The Department of Finance is to release the $50  million if UC provides sufficient evidence by May  1, 2018 that it made a good faith effort to satisfy all of these expectations. Creates New Line Item for UCOP in State Budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/5

The 2013-14 Budget: California Spending Plan - The 2013-14 Budget: California Spending Plan [Video]

Included are highlights from the administration 's official scoring of the budget package.
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