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

Feb 15, 2022 - Once the administration has finalized and provided to the Legislature the details of this grant proposal, the Legislature should consider whether the request is an appropriate use of state General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - The fact that the proposed agreement took more than two years to finalize suggests that it is the product of a very difficult and prolonged negotiation. The parties signed the first pages of the tentative agreement in 2020, with some relatively minor provisions of the agreement related to pay being signed during the summer of 2022 (including adjusting the pay range for specified
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - The case inventory grew from 7,000 in 2015 ‑16 to 22,000 in 2023 ‑24, while more recent trends suggests the case inventory now sits around 25,000 claims. With Influx of Claims Driving Backlog, Today ’s SIBTF Claimants Might Expect to Wait Ten Years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Further, the Legislature and Governor have not yet agreed to a final budget package. If control sections similar to those included at May Revision are included in the final budget, this agreement could serve as a precedent for any policies that the administration might impose on any of the other 20 bargaining units (whether they have an active MOU or not).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals

Mar 20, 2024 - (Typically, each April the Board adopts final rates, which reflects the application of these supplemental payments.) The Governor proposes applying the state ’s 2023 ‑24 CalPERS payment to reduce the state ’s payments toward unfunded liabilities in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4887

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - In the event that employees have unused PLP 2025 leave in their leave banks upon separation, the agreement specifies that the employees ’ unused leave would be cashed out upon separation at their final salary level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - Governor Presented —and Union Rejected —Last Best and Final Offer (LBFO) in December 2023. The mediation process ended on December 13, 2023 with the parties failing to reach an agreement. The administration submitted its LBFO to CAPS on December 19, 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

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

Jun 27, 2025 - As of June 30, 2023, the state and Unit 12 have set aside $328.7 million in assets to prefund the benefit and the unfunded liability associated with Unit 12 is $2.8 billion. The most recent actuarial valuation of Unit 12 retiree health benefits (as of June 30, 2023) estimates that the Unit 12 funding plan is on track to fully fund Unit 12 retiree health benefits by 2047.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

Revisiting the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Insolvency

Sep 30, 2016 - This final post looks at potential steps the Legislature could take should it wish to increase reserves in the trust fund as a means to address the fiscal impacts of the next economic downturn. The other posts in this series can be accessed using the nearby menu.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3503/3

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The agreement would provide a 3  percent GSI on July 1, 2023 and another 3  percent GSI on July 1, 2024. One-Time $1,200 Payments in 2023 and Again in 2024. The agreement would provide employees a $1,200 payment in November 2023 and another $1,200 payment in November 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800