Proposition 50 [Ballot]

Nov 4, 2025 - The Commission includes 14 members: 5 Democratic members, 5 Republican members, and 4 members who are not registered with either of those political parties. When the Commission draws new congressional district maps, it must follow federal and state laws.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=50&year=2025

Housing assistance program for certain University of California employees. [Ballot]

Oct 27, 2025 - Typically, UC borrows some funds from its Short-Term Investment Pool (STIP) to issue home loans. STIP holds cash from tuition, fees, state funds, and other revenues. UC places these funds in safe, short-term investments so it can generate interest until the funds are spent for university purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-018

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 24, 2025 - Such funds are allocated by the state to support trial court operations in counties that collect more property tax than state law allows them to spe nd on education. This reduction is $11  million more than the revised 2024-25 level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

Considering Medi-Cal in the Midst of a Changing Fiscal and Policy Landscape

Oct 24, 2025 - While  our  assessment of the state ’s budget condition will be updated in November, recent state tax collections have improved since budget enactment. This gain, however, likely reflects an exuberant stock market, with the rest of the economy appearing fragile.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

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

Oct 22, 2025 - The budget package allows affordable housing developers funded by HCD to access and reinvest equity in their affordable housing projects in order to finance further investments in other affordable housing projects, subject to specified limitations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

Personal income tax rates for high-income taxpayers. [Ballot]

Oct 20, 2025 - This is because much of the revenue comes from taxing investment income and capital gains. These types of income are closely tied to the stock market and therefore go up and down a lot from year to year.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-016

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan

Oct 16, 2025 - (This improves the budget condition.) Second, these higher revenues are more than offset by more discretionary spending, which totals $4  billion in the final package, compared to $1.6  billion in the May Revision.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5079

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - The spending plan includes General Fund savings of $737  million in 2027-28 and $ 503  million in 2028-29 from operational improvements at DHCS. The administration has stated that it intends to hire one or multiple contractors to identify areas where operations could be improved to achieve savings, as well as to identify new ways to improve processes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 16, 2025 - Instead, legislation enacted through the policy process —Chapter  121 of 2025 (SB  840, Lim ón) —reserves at least $1  billion from GGRF for the Legislature to appropriate for any purpose, with final amounts depending on the magnitude of cap-and-invest program auction revenues in a given year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5077

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2025 - This program supports coordinators in 47 of 58 counties who work with local organizations and residents to improve community wildfire preparedness through education, events, and grant funding. Home Hardening Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080