The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government

Oct 22, 2025 - Our office ’s post, The 2025‑26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions , provides an update on this action as well as other wildfire-related actions included in the 2025-26 budget package. Suspends Four Newly Identified Mandates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government [Publication Details]

Oct 22, 2025 - The 2025-26 budget package contains a number of major actions in the area of agency reorganization, homelessness, housing, and other actions, which we describe in this post.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5082

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - We will assess the other three mandates —also related to stormwater permits —after the administration proposes a course of action, potentially in the Governor ’s revised budget proposal in May. Summary.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - For example, CSM determined that requirements to develop and implement certain plans (such as a watershed action plan), provide formal training to relevant employees, and develop a proposal for assessing effectiveness of the urban runoff management program to be state-reimbursable mandates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - The state budget has provided $227  million from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for LIWP since 2014, and the 2021 ‑22 budget package committed an additional $75  million total from the General Fund through 2024 (with $25  million in 2021 ‑22 dedicated exclusively to the farmworker housing component).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - Furthermore, most of the continuous appropriations were established as part of the 2014 ‑15 budget, and legislative priorities may have changed over the last several years. If the Legislature were to determine that the AHSC Program were a much higher priority than other programs receiving GGRF revenue, the continuous appropriations could be reset accordingly.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

The 2014-15 Budget: Changes to a Local Infrastructure Financing Tool [Publication Details]

Mar 11, 2014 - The 2014-15 Budget: Changes to a Local Infrastructure Financing Tool [Publication Details] The 2014-15 Budget: Changes to a Local Infrastructure Financing Tool Format: HTML Description: In 1990, the Legislature authorized cities and counties to form infrastructure financing districts to fund local infrastructure projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2970

The 2017-18 Budget: National Housing Trust Fund Staffing

Feb 23, 2017 - In late 2014, the federal administration lifted this suspension. The first allocations from the NHTF to states were announced in the summer of 2016. California was awarded $10.1 million to be allocated by the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to affordable housing projects in the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3580

Sheriff Court-Security Services Mandate

May 27, 2016 - As part of the 2014 ‑15 Budget Act , the Legislature finished paying the pre-2004 mandate claims. While Proposition  1A did not require the state to develop a plan for paying mandate claims incurred after 2004 ‑05, the state Constitution requires these claims be paid.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3478

Post Election Manual Tally Mandate

Jan 13, 2016 - As part of the 2014-15 Budget Act , the Legislature finished paying the pre-2004 mandate claims. While Proposition 1A did not require the state to develop a plan for paying mandate claims incurred after 2004-05, the state Constitution requires these claims be paid.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3327