The 2018-19 Budget: Meeting Workforce Demand for Certified Nursing Assistants in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Apr 27, 2018 - Assuming that the state streamlines minimum faculty qualifications, we estimate that our recommended approach would fund about 3,000 new enrollment slots (about 1,700 enrollment slots funded by ETP and about 1,300 enrollment slots funded by Proposition  98).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3815

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

Jan 14, 2019 - These slots would be on top of the almost 9,000 full ‑day slots the state added over the past three years. Extending preschool to all children from low ‑income families is consistent with considerable research that has concluded the benefits of preschool are greatest for these children.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

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

Sep 1, 2023 - The agreement would provide the 35 FTE employees who work as a Park Maintenance Worker II a 4.8  percent pay increase. 4.41 to Lead Automotive and Motorcycle Mechanics. The agreement would provide the two FTE employees in either the Lead Automotive Mechanic or the Lead Motorcycle Mechanic classifications a 4.41  percent pay increase. 4.19  Percent SSA to Telecommunications Facilities Technician IIs (California Highway Patrol).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4798

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - In addition, the 2021 ‑22 budget provided HCAI  with $60  million General Fund to support the Song ‑Brown Program, intended to increase the number of primary care providers statewide by funding primary care residency training slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

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

Feb 15, 2022 - The Governor ’s budget includes $6  million from the General Fund in 2022 ‑23 for DMV to fund overtime for 200 Licensing Registration Examiners, as well as the necessary office and support staff, so that field offices with wait times of 30 days or more for commercial drive tests can offer additional testing slots on Saturdays.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - Suggest Legislature Also Consider “Catch ‑Up ” Mechanism. Considering the various challenges facing the CalSTRS funding plan described in this report, the Legislature may wish to consider implementing a catch ‑up mechanism, either in addition to or instead of the Governor ’s proposed one ‑time $173  million General Fund payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400

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

Jun 27, 2025 - In its most recent total compensation study for Unit 12, CalHR identified that, statewide, Unit 12 members’ wages (excluding benefits) were (1) above market in the case of stockers and order fillers, painters and construction workers, general maintenance and repair workers, landscaping and groundskeeping workers, and mobile heavy equipment mechanics and (2) below market in the case of electricians and highway maintenance workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

State Options to Expand Unemployment Benefits

Apr 9, 2020 - In the case of benefits for unemployed workers, the state has options to use both of these mechanisms to expand benefits without making offsetting expenditure reductions or revenue increases. In this post, we discuss options for the state to increase unemployment insurance (UI) benefits or expand benefits to ineligible workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4219

Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - (The 32 percent of state engineers not included in the compensation study include engineering jobs such as mechanical engineers and architects.) The compensation study found that state civil (representing 52 percent of the bargaining unit) and environmental (representing 11 percent of the bargaining unit) engineers are compensated above market.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4620

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

Jun 10, 2016 - The agreement would provide an additional 5 percent salary increase on two separate occasions —once in 2016-17 and again in 2017-18 —to about 720 rank-and-file employees employed by (1) the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) in specified heavy equipment mechanic classifications and (2) the Office of Emergency Services, Department of General Services, and Department of Water Resources (DWR) in specified telecommunication technician classifications.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3482