The 2018-19 Budget: California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 2, 2018 - The fund is primarily supported from the sale and renewal of personalized motor vehicle license plates, as well as a portion of fees on the sale and renewal of certain specialty license plates. The Department of Motor Vehicles recently began offering “legacy license plates, ” which has increased revenues in recent years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/9

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - The remaining $4  million in funding is provided from Environmental License Plate Fund. Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) The budget includes $1.6  billion from various fund sources to support CalFire, a net increase of about $122  million, or 8  percent, from the estimated 2016 ‑17 level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/9

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - We then compared the income growth of residents of zip codes that received investment to the income growth of residents in comparable zip codes that did not receive investment (using a statistical method known as difference in differences).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals

Mar 20, 2024 - Under Section 20683.2 of the Government Code pertaining to CalPERS, any savings that otherwise would have been realized by the state employer as a result of employees contributing more towards their pensions is, instead, directed towards paying down the unfunded liabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4887

An Extraordinary Moment in California's Fiscal History

Apr 11, 2019 - The administration would pay for CalEITC with the additional revenue that would result from conforming the state tax code to various federal tax code provisions. Again, while there are good arguments in favor of both proposals, apart from both affecting the state tax code, we see no inherent policy reason for why they should be linked.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4003

State Funding Actions Related to COVID-19

Apr 20, 2020 - Using authority established in Government Code 8690.6, the Governor transferred $1.3  billion from the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to a subaccount within the fund —the Disaster Response Emergency Operations Account (DREOA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4223

The Definition of Qualified Capital Outlay for the State Appropriations Limit

Feb 18, 2022 - As such, Government Code Section 7914 defines qualified capital outlay as: “an appropriation for a fixed asset (including land and construction) with a useful life of 10 or more years and a value which equals or exceeds one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). ” Because this statute is fairly broad, often there are questions about how it should be interpreted in certain cases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4547

The 2016-17 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 5, 2016 - Spending in the budget is color coded by program area. You can hover over each box and view a brief description about major state programs. Clicking a box will zoom into a view of a single program area.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3487/12

The 2023-24 Budget: Considering Inflation's Effects on State Programs

Nov 16, 2022 - Government Code allows the State Public Works Board to augment the costs of major capital outlay projects by up to 20 percent with legislative notification. Larger augmentations require legislative approval.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4647

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: The State Appropriations Limit

Sep 30, 2022 - This year ’s budget built on these changes to expand the definition of subvention also to include a variety of other specific streams of funds, as listed in Government Code 7903. Under Chapter  48 of 2022 (SB  189, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review), subventions now include, for example, funds to counties for the administration of health and human services programs like
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4631