Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - Limit SIBTF Claims to Pre ‑Existing Disabilities That Interact With the Work Injury. Under current program rules, workers can qualify for SIBTF benefits even if the pre ‑existing condition does not interact with (or worsen the impact of) the work injury.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - One key question will be what role state programs and policies can and should play in adapting to climate change, including how they interact with local adaptation activities, and how they should be funded.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

Unit 8 (Firefighters) MOU Analysis

Aug 26, 2022 - Interaction Between This Agreement and Approved Budget Not Clear. How this proposed agreement would interact with the budget augmentations already approved by the Legislature is unclear. For example, as mentioned above, it is unclear to us whether any of the approved staffing increases would be used to support the implementation of the 66-hour duty week.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4621

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

May 30, 2018 - Interactions With Pending Budget Proposals As discussed below, the proposed agreement interacts with a number of budget proposals currently being considered by the Legislature. Item 9800. The Governor ’s May Revision —submitted to the Legislature before the proposed agreement was finalized —increases Item 9800 in 2018-19 by $112  million General Fund to pay for
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3847

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - The lack of gender and ethnic/racial diversity among CHP officers means that the state ’s police force that regularly interacts with the public is not representative of the public. However, the trend seems to be moving towards CHP officers becoming more diverse.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

Savings Plus Program: An Optional Retirement Benefit for State Employees

Mar 14, 2017 - Interaction of Medicare and CalPERS Health Benefits for Current Retirees Four Parts to Medicare. Medicare is the federal program that provides health care coverage to people over the age of 65  years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3616

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 7 (Protective Services and Public Safety)

Aug 8, 2019 - The cost of living in California varies significantly by region. Employees in the same occupation often earn higher levels of compensation in higher cost of living regions in the state. The state employs people in each county with about two-thirds of the state workforce in a county other than the County of Sacramento.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4085

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6

Jun 14, 2019 - Interactions With Budget Bill 2019 ‑20 Money Set Aside for New Contracts. Including Bargaining Unit  6, the state ’s MOUs with 6 of its 21 bargaining units will be expired July 2019. In addition, in January 2020, the state ’s MOUs with the nine bargaining units represented by Service Employees ’ International Union, Local 1000 will expire.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4078

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 13 (Stationary Engineers)

Aug 26, 2019 - In fact, the department includes its challenges in finding staff to maintain buildings —particularly in high cost of living regions of the state —as one of the reasons it is proposing to divest the state from a number of office buildings—particularly in high cost of living regions of the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4090

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - With regard to possible regional differences, in most cases, the state does not provide state employees pay differentials for working in higher cost of living parts of the state. (In contrast, the federal civil service differentiates its pay ranges by region.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4619