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

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings [Publication Details]

Jul 11, 2025 - Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings [Publication Details] Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings Format: HTML Description: The final 2025-26 budget package approved by the Legislature maintained the May Revision level of savings in employee compensation and set an expectation for the administration and the state’s 21 bargaining units to meet and confer in good faith in order to achieve those savings through the collective bargaining process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5063

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - Injured workers must finalize their subsequent injury workers ’ compensation case before proceeding with their SIBTF claim for additional benefits. A recent analysis of SIBTF cases found that, on average, an injured worker ’s: (1)  standard workers ’ compensation claim for the subsequent injury took five years to finalize, (2)  the worker filed for SIBTF benefits
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - The final 2025-26 budget package approved by the Legislature maintained the May Revision level of savings in employee compensation and set an expectation for the administration and the state’s 21 bargaining units to meet and confer in good faith in order to achieve those savings through the collective bargaining process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

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

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - CAAP indicated that calculating projections of expected benefit payments is significantly complicated by DROP entry timing, final retirement date, participation rates, overall career length, and employee behaviors (discussed in greater detail below).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

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

Jun 27, 2025 - These higher leave balances, in turn, lead to higher costs to the state when employees separate from state service and the state must pay the employee for any unused leave at their final salary level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

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 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

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - During this three-year period, the County of Sonoma will conduct land use planning activities that will inform DGS ’s final disposal of the property. Second, the budget includes $2.2  million from the General Fund in 2019 ‑20 to perform a site assessment of the Fairview DC —whose final residents will move out in 2019 —to support the future disposal of the property.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101