The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - Instead, our forecast includes income tax collections that are somewhat weaker than suggested by cash trends, but still tens of billions of dollars above where they would be if stocks actually drop significantly.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

Online sports wagering. [Ballot]

Oct 20, 2021 - For example, the measure prohibits the division from placing limits on the ty pe or amount of free bets or promotional credits offered to individuals, as well as from specifying how odds are to be calculated.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-017

An Update on California’s Cash Management Situation

Aug 31, 2020 - While uncertainty about the state ’s budget and cash situations is still high, the state ’s cash management outlook for 2020-21 is positive. Positive Cash Management Outlook General Fund Cash Position.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4266

Gaming. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2023 - This percent is applied to the amount of sports wagers made after deducting (1)  any wagers made with free bets or promotional credits (such as a wager made with funds provided by a tribe to a player as a promotion), (2)  all player winnings, and (3)  all federal gaming taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-030

Tribal gaming. [Ballot]

Dec 27, 2021 - This percent is applied to the amount of sports wagers made after deducting (1)  any wagers made with free bets or promotional credits (such as a wager made with funds provided by a tribe to a player as a promotion), (2)  all player winnings, and (3)  all federal gaming taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-039

^[PDF] Online sports wagering.

For example, the measure prohibits the division from placing limits on the type or amount of free bets or promotional credits offered to individuals, as well as from specifying how odds are to be calculated.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2021/210494.pdf

^[PDF] Proposition 27: Allows Online and Mobile Sports Wagering Outside Tribal Lands. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute.

The increase would depend mostly on how sports betting is regulated—such as the number of sports betting licenses approved, the type and number of betting options and events offered, and how much state enforcement is done.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/crimjust/2022/Prop-27-081022.pdf

^[PDF] Proposition 26: Allows In-Person Roulette, Dice Games, Sports Wagering on Tribal Lands. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute.

Increased State Regulatory Costs „ Increased state costs for state agencies (such as DOJ) to regulate in-person sports betting, possibly reaching the low tens of millions of dollars annually. These costs would depend mostly on how sports betting is regulated, such as what types of bets are not allowed. „ Some or all of these costs would be offset by CSWF revenues and tribal payments to the state that do not go into the CSWF.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/crimjust/2022/Proposition-26-081022.pdf

Broad-Based Cash Assistance in COVID-19 Recovery Actions

Apr 3, 2020 - Some Low-Income Californians Are Not Eligible for Cash Assistance. Although the cash assistance in the CARES Act is far more broad-based than in other cash assistance programs, it is still limited in two important ways.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4214

^[PDF] Cash assistance and employment services for

Cash assistance and employment services for low-income families. SSI/SSP. Cash assistance for low-income seniors and persons with disabilities. Free or Reduced-Price School Meals. Free or low-cost school meals for low-income children.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2018/3905/calfacts-2018.pdf