Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - At the federal level, the National Emergencies Act (NEA) was enacted in 1976 to rein in presidential emergency powers and provides that a national emergency will end automatically after one year unless the President publishes a notice of renewal in the Federal Register.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2022-23 Budget: Vote by Mail Ballots: Prepaid Postage

May 13, 2022 - LAO Comments Since Enactment of Chapter   120, State Law Now Requires Elections Officials to Mail VBM Ballot to All Registered Voters … A subsequent state law, Chapter 312 of 2021 (AB 37, Berman), now requires elections officials to send every registered voter a VBM ballot, rather than only upon the request of a voter.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4596

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - Also, the project ’s risk register —a tool to identify potential risks to the completion of a project —cites upcoming collective bargaining in 2026 as a potential risk to the project schedule. A majority of state bargaining units must renegotiate new agreements that year, which is a significant amount of work for both CalHR and the unions representing bargaining units.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2017-18 Budget: Considering the State's Role in Elections

Mar 30, 2017 - Individuals can register to vote up to and including election day. Individuals registering within two weeks of election day are conditionally registered —pending verification they are not registered elsewhere —and must use “provisional ” ballots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3634

The 2020-21 Budget: Reinventing the Department of Business Oversight

Feb 26, 2020 - For example, if the Legislature decides not to have DFPI register all the NCPs —either because it does not find that registration provides sufficient value or because it would prefer to instead license some or all of these entities —the workload associated with registering these NCPs would be less than assumed in the Governor ’s budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4181

The 2021-22 Budget: Funding for Debt Collector Licensing and Regulation

Feb 17, 2021 - For example, the legislation allows DFPI to promulgate regulations to require entities providing financial products or services to California consumers to register with the department. These providers are known as “new covered persons ” (NCPs).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4376

The 2022-23 Budget: Secretary of State Request to Waive Business Filing Fees

Feb 7, 2022 - In this post we analyze the Governor ’s proposal to waive the filing fee paid when a new limited partnership (LP), limited liability company (LLC), or corporation is registered with the Secretary of State (SOS) for the fiscal year of 2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4516

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Consumer Affairs Organizational Improvement Office

Feb 24, 2023 - For example, OIO reported that it worked with the Board of Registered Nursing to reduce certain application processing times by 64  percent in two years. However, OIO has not quantified how, if at all, examples like these have translated into measurable net benefits or net cost savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4704

The 2017-18 Budget: Department of Consumer Affairs

Feb 17, 2017 - Registered Nursing Military Education and Experience LAO Bottom Line. The Governor ’s 2017 ‑18 budget proposes $389,000 and three permanent positions to implement Chapter  489 of 2015 (SB 466, Hill).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3570

The 2019-20 Budget: Department of State Hospitals

Feb 13, 2019 - In order to provide better supervision when unit supervisors and supervising registered nurses are away during the afternoon and overnight shift, the administration proposes to create additional registered nurse supervisor positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3936