MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - CAAP identified some specific behavioral changes that can occur when a DROP is offered that can affect the cost of the benefit including (1)  members might postpone retirement longer due to the financial advantages of DROP, (2)  the member might make the decision to enter DROP and the decision of their final retirement date to coincide with
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - Medical Education Leave. The agreement would increase the number of medical education leave hours that Unit 16 members receive each fiscal year from 56 hours to 60 hours. The agreement also increases the number of continuing medical education leave hours that employees may carry over year over year from 112 hours to 120 hours.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician)

Sep 9, 2025 - Twice each year through June 30, 2028, the parties would discuss methods and opportunities to improve the state ’s ability to recruit and retain Unit 18 members. Contracting Out. Twice a year, the parties would meet to examine existing personal services contracts that call for services found in Unit 18 class specifications.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Administration Provides No Evidence That Location-Specific Payments Under Current MOU Improved Recruitment or Retention at Identified Institutions. The administration has provided no evidence that the location-specific recruitment and retention payments established under the current MOU improved recruitment or retention efforts at the identified institutions over the course of the current MOU.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - Additionally, the Governor ’s budget includes a total of $ 500  m illion for improvements to early education ($ 245  m illion for facilities, $ 245  m illion for the child care workforce, and $ 10  m illion for a comprehensive plan to improve access and quality).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 12 (Craft and Maintenance)

Jun 27, 2025 - Suspension of Employer and Employee OPEB Contributions Missed Opportunity to Improve OPEB Prefunding Arrangement. We long have been critical of the state ’s retiree health prefunding strategy. We have found that establishing a benefit that fundamentally has no bearing on an employee ’s salary to be funded as a percentage of pay is overly complicated and creates risk that the benefit will not be fully funded by the target date.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - The topics to be discussed by JLMCs that would be established by the proposed agreement include potential consolidation of Unit 10 classifications; review of promotional pathways, including minimum qualifications of specifi ed Unit 10 classifications; solutions on telework issues for Unit 10 members; and recommendations to reduce excess leave balances of Unit 10 members (upon request by either party).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - Financial provisions of MOUs often are extended to excluded employees who are affiliated with the bargaining unit —for example, Unit 10 managers and supervisors. The administration estimates that extending the financial provisions to these employees would increase state costs by $1.8  million ($457,000 General Fund) in 2023-24 and $3  million ($774,000 General Fund) in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - These bargaining units include the nine units represented by Local 1000 (Units 1 [administrative, financial, and staff services], 3 [professional educators and librarians], 4 [office and allied], 11 [engineering and scientific technicians], 14 [printing and allied trades], 15 [allied services], 1 7 [registered nurses], 20 [medical and social services], and 21
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - If repealing the statute that establishes the automatic pay increases for Unit 5 is not feasible, we recommend that the L egislature instead modify the statute to improve the survey methodologies used.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920