Overview of Efforts to Modernize EDD’s Benefit Systems [Publication Details]

Feb 24, 2026 - Overview of Efforts to Modernize EDD’s Benefit Systems [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5135

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - To construct each figure in the posts, we use one of two different strategies to address this item nonresponse problem, depending on the type of statistic we are trying to estimate. The following sections describe these strategies in more detail.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

The 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - Long ‑Term Strategies. The  current supply chain disruptions are the result of both short ‑term issues, such as greater consumer demand, as well as long ‑term issues, such as the capacity and resilience of the goods movement system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Next Generation 911 System Augmentations. The budget includes provisional language authorizing the Department of Finance to augment State Emergency Telephone Number Account fund expenditure authority by amounts “necessary to continue implementation of the Next Generation 9-1-1 system, including transition from the legacy 9-1-1 system, ” subject to 30-day legislative notification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - What strategies do CDTFA and other law enforcement partners use to address these avenues for tax evasion? Why has the number of tobacco inspections declined so much? We have seen workload trends presented in terms of total inspections, seizures, citations, and appeals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - With Small Reserves, System Experienced Massive Benefit Costs in 2020. While the state ’s UI system has faced fiscal hurdles for decades, the pandemic represented an unprecedented challenge to the system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

The 2026-27 Budget: CDTFA’s Cannabis and Tobacco Programs

Feb 23, 2026 - Even if spillover effects were known, the resulting funding system would be needlessly complex. Each program would be supported by a potentially large number of funds, and the share of costs allocated to each fund would vary across programs for reasons that few observers would understand.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5132

Do Communities Adequately Plan for Housing?

Mar 8, 2017 - State law requires, however, that each region ’s allocation methodology be consistent with their Sustainable Community Strategy —a state ‑mandated long ‑range regional strategy to reduce regional greenhouse gas emissions through transportation and land use planning.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3605

Annual Report on Tax Exemptions for Medicinal Cannabis

Jun 24, 2025 - The data come from the state ’s Metrc “track and trace” system for licensed cannabis. In particular, the data reflect transactions that businesses identified as medicinal donations in calendar year 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5059

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - The first is to establish an Office of Health Care Affordability responsible for increasing price transparency and developing cost containment strategies and targets for the health care industry. The second is to build on last year ’s efforts to control drug spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135