How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852

California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - After the dot-com bust and the Great Recession, it took four and five years, respectively, for revenues to recover. Incorporating revenue risk into the budget now, therefore, reflects prudence, not pessimism.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

^[PDF] Supplemental Report of the 2004 Budget Act

Working drawings will begin by July 2005 and be com- pleted by December 2005. Construction will begin by March 2006 and be com- plete by February 2007. Item 0820-301-0660—Department of Justice—Capital Outlay 1.
https://lao.ca.gov/2004/supp_report/supp_rpt_2004_budget_act.pdf

^[PDF] Supplemental Report of the 2003 Budget Act

Working drawings are scheduled to begin July 2003 and be com- pleted March 2004. Construction is scheduled to begin July 2004 and be com- pleted February 2005. 12. Mount Diablo State Park, Road System Improvements.
https://lao.ca.gov/2003/supp_report/supp_rpt_2003_budget_act.pdf

^[PDF] Supplemental Report Of the 2002 Budget Act 2002-03 Fiscal Year CONTAINING STATEMENTS OF INTENT ADOPTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OR REQUESTS FOR STUDIES

The DMH shall report its findings to the Joint Legislative Budget Com- mittee and the fiscal committees of both houses of the Legislature by March 1, 2003. Supplemental Report of the 2002 Budget Act Page 25 2.
https://lao.ca.gov/2002/supplemental_report/supp_rpt_2002_budget_act.pdf

^[PDF] Supplemental Report of the 2006 Budget Act

On or before January 10, 2008, the State Lands Com- mission shall report to the chairs of the appropriate policy committees and the fiscal committees in both houses on its audit program, including information on the number of leases, the revenue generated from each leases, and the frequency with which each is audited given current staffing.
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/supp_report/supp_rpt_2006.pdf

Oversight of certain public benefit artificial intelligence (AI) companies. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - The measure would have the following major fiscal effects: Increased state costs that would likely be in the tens of millions of dollars annually to establish and operate a new regulatory commission overseeing certain public benefit AI com panies.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-033

^[PDF] CalWORKs Program Overview Hearing

CalWORKs Program Overview Hearing Moving Toward Self-Sufficiency: Allowable Activities LAO 60 YEARS OF SERVICE L E G I S L A T I V E A N A L Y S T ’ S O F F I C E March 9, 2005 3 " One-Parent Family: A family is eligible for the one-parent com- ponent of the program if it includes a child who is financially needy due to the death, incapacity, or continued absence of one or both
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/socservices/2005/CalWORKs_program_030905.pdf

^[PDF] HMOs and Rural California

In preparing this report, we obtained infor- mation from a variety of sources: ➢ We conducted interviews with repre- sentatives of a diverse set of key players in the rural health care com- munity, including beneficiaries, health operated health care systems, the California Medical Association, health policy researchers, state health care programs such as the Medi-Cal Program and
https://lao.ca.gov/2002/hmos_rural_ca/8-02_hmos_rural_ca.pdf