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

May 5, 2025 - However, in 2007, the courts found this section of statute to be unconstitutional ( County of Los Angeles v. Commission on State Mandates ). This decision opened the door for local governments to seek reimbursement for complying with water boards ’ permit requirements that they believe go beyond federal requirements. 2016 State Supreme Court Ruling Found That Water Boards ’ Implementation Decisions Can Be Reimbursable.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

May 30, 2025 - We also find that suspending the mandates would not actually remove the past requirements, meaning that the local governments could not go back in time and cease required activities to avoid incurring costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government

Oct 22, 2025 - Provisional language exempts the department from having to go through the state ’s contracting process to obtain a vendor to run the initiative, but includes language stating legislative intent that any future funding for the program use a competitive-bid process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

Understanding Your Property Tax Bill - The 1 Percent Tax—Where Does Your Money Go? [Video]

tagId=75 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The 1 Percent Tax—Where Does Your Money Go? December 9, 2015 State law directs how your county auditor distributes revenue from the 1 percent tax to: Local Governments in Your County.
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=96&videoId=144

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Going Forward Could Rental Debt Increase Going Forward? Despite our revised analysis and recently authorized federal funding for emergency rental assistance, the actual amount of accrued rental debt is unknown.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Going forward, the Legislature will want to monitor the implementation of Chapter  335. Should it become clear that there are not benefits of providing youths with legal counsel at this stage of the juvenile justice process —or that the benefits of doing so do not justify the costs —the Legislature could suspend the mandate at that time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

Property Tax Reductions to Diminish as Housing Market Improves [Publication Details]

May 5, 2014 - Going forward, we expect property tax payments for these owners to increase faster than 2 percent annually for several years. These increases likely will cause local property tax revenues to grow swiftly over the next several years as well.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3010

The 2020-21 Budget: U-Visa I-918 Form Mandate

Mar 4, 2020 - To apply for a U-Visa, victims must go through certain steps such as the completion and submission of various applicable federal forms. One key form is the Federal Form I-918, which must be submitted to U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4192

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Housing and Homelessness

Oct 17, 2019 - The budget provides $250  million for planning grants to local governments, with $125  million going to regional planning entities and $125  million to cities and counties. These grants are to be used for planning for the sixth cycle regional housing need assessment process and other planning activities that facilitate the development of housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4102

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

Feb 28, 2022 - Despite the general federal direction to the state water boards to reduce the discharge of pollutants, however, courts have found that specific permit conditions required by the boards but not explicitly stated in federal law can be state ‑reimbursable mandates ( Department of Finance v.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565