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

May 5, 2025 - Two key court decisions addressed this issue: 2007 Court Ruling Allowed Local Governments to Seek Reimbursement for Water Board Mandates. Prior to 2007, state statute exempted water boards ’ water quality permits from the state mandate process (and, therefore, consideration for reimbursement) as they were generally understood to be implementing federal law.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

May 30, 2025 - While not directly linked to these mandates, CSM has significant pending workload related to other stormwater permits issued by the state water boards dating back to 2007. This includes 32 pending test claims and 4 additional claims for which CSM has already identified state-reimbursable mandated activities but has not yet developed cost estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2023-24 Budget: California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s Major Capital Outlay Proposals

Feb 21, 2023 - Key steps of the project include: 2007: Project Initiated. The 2007 ‑08 Budget Act authorized $46  million for the completion of all the phases of the project, including preliminary plans, working drawings, and construction.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4693

The 2024-25 Budget: Salton Sea Management Program

Feb 26, 2024 - In 2007, the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) released a study of eight potential approaches to restoring the Sea, and recommended a “preferred alternative ” to the Legislature with a corresponding cost of $9  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4859

Living Under Smoky Skies—Understanding the Challenges Posed by Wildfire Smoke in California

Nov 14, 2022 - Specifically, the study estimated that wildfire smoke reduced nationwide earnings from jobs by an average of close to 2 percent per year (the equivalent of $125 billion annually) between 2007 and 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4644

Managing Floods in California

Mar 22, 2017 - Figure 7 Major Components of 2007 Central Valley Flood Legislation a State Planning Requirements. Required DWR and CVFPB to prepare, adopt, and implement a CVFPP by 2012, then update that plan every five years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3571

Overview of California's Ports

Aug 23, 2022 - For example, in 2007, CARB adopted an “At-Berth Regulation ” that requires ships to control pollution while docked. As another example, in 2018, CARB adopted regulations which require all drayage trucks to be registered with CARB and meet specific emission standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4618

Improving State’s Approach to Park User Fees

Jan 12, 2017 - However, following the beginning of a recession in 2007-08, General Fund support was reduced several times. Moderate increases in fee revenue since 2007-08 have partially offset this General Fund reduction.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3527

Expanding Access to Safe and Affordable Drinking Water in California—A Status Update

Nov 10, 2020 - The report cites that, adjusting for inflation, the average California household paid around 45 percent more per month for drinking water services in 2015 than in 2007. This has created an affordability challenge for many low‑income households that have not seen a commensurate increase in their incomes—in fact, when adjusting for inflation, the average incomes for the bottom quartile of California income earners decreased by 9 percent between 2007 and 2015.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4294

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Electricity Generation

Jan 6, 2020 - Emissions Performance Standard (SB 1368) a 2007 Effectively prohibits LSEs from signing or extending long ‑term contracts with coal power plants. Cap ‑and ‑trade 2013 Requires electricity generators and importers to obtain an allowance or offset to cover each ton of GHG emitted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4131