What Is a Mandate? - What Is a Mandate: An Overview [Video]

What ’s a Mandate —Learning Through Examples explores different types of state laws and regulations and helps you walk through the steps to sort out whether or not they would be a state-reimbursable mandate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=42&videoId=43

What Is a Mandate? - What Is a Mandate: Learning Through Examples [Video]

What ’s a Mandate —Learning Through Examples explores different types of state laws and regulations and helps you walk through the steps to sort out whether or not they would be a state-reimbursable mandate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=42&videoId=42

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Interrogations can have significant implications on outcomes for youths in the juvenile justice system. As discussed above, the information collected through an interrogation can be used to file a petition in juvenile court.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Likewise, people will stay homeless, or be at risk of homelessness, until they can find stable housing they can afford. Figure  1 shows that since 2019-20, the state has provided about $37  billion in funding for housing- and homelessness-related programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

What Is a Mandate: An Overview [Publication Details]

Jan 16, 2007 - What’s a Mandate—Learning Through Examples explores different types of state laws and regulations and helps you walk through the steps to sort out whether or not they would be a state-reimbursable mandate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1534

What Is a Mandate: Learning Through Examples [Publication Details]

Jan 16, 2007 - What’s a Mandate—Learning Through Examples explores different types of state laws and regulations and helps you walk through the steps to sort out whether or not they would be a state-reimbursable mandate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1535

The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - A subset of SCO ’s audit reductions to Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges mandate claims still are being challenged or are within the time frame when they could be challenged by claimants through “incorrect reduction claim ” processes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

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

May 5, 2025 - Specifically, the state can suspend the mandate for one year, meaning local governments are not required to comply, and the state does not provide funding for related costs. The sta te also can modify the mandate to reduce costs —for example, by easing its requirements or making them optional.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for Governor's Proposals to Address Homelessness

Feb 21, 2019 - The legal challenges that opponents can bring through the CEQA process means that a single individual can slow or terminate a development project approved by the local government and broadly supported by the community.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3942

The 2019-20 Budget: What Can Be Done to Improve Local Planning for Housing?

Feb 20, 2019 - We can turn to other evidence, however, that is less rigorous but still somewhat helpful. This evidence, which we discuss below, suggests the impact of these programs was limited at best. No Notable Spike in Affordable Housing Construction.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938