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

Oct 22, 2025 - The budget provides $2.4  million one-time General Fund for the Civil Right Department ’s California vs. Hate initiative. California vs. Hate is a non-emergency hotline and online portal that allows state residents to report hate crimes and hate incidents.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2019-20 Budget: What Can Be Done to Improve Local Planning for Housing?

Feb 20, 2019 - Given this, offering rewards to cities and counties in hopes of boosting housing production seems like a risky bet. If the Legislature were to allocate funding for rewards, it cannot be sure what effect, if any, such a program would have on home building.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

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

May 5, 2025 - The California Supreme Court declined to hear the case, making the appellate court decision final and binding on CSM and statewide trial courts. State Mandate Issues Reflected in Challenges to Orange County Stormwater Permit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

May 30, 2025 - Final costs will total around $3  million (between $2.4  million and $3.7  million). Funding these mandates does not have direct out-year fiscal implications for the state. Subscribe | California State Legislature | Online Voter Registration | Privacy Policy | Accessibility Legislative Analyst's Office | The California Legislature's Nonpartisan Fiscal and Policy Advisor 925 L Street, Suite 1000 Sacramento, CA 95814 | (916) 445-4656
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 9, 2022 - Once these performances measures are finalized, Cal  ICH anticipates updating the HDIS system to focus more on the outcomes of people accessing services throughout California. Governor’s 2022‑23 Homelessness Proposals Homelessness Package Proposes to Focuses on Near ‑Team Needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

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

Mar 4, 2020 - Finally, Chapter  721 requires agencies that receive requests for the completion of such documents to report annually on the number of victims that submitted requests, the number of documents signed, and the number of documents denied.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4192

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

Feb 28, 2022 - Should the final state costs associated with reimbursing this mandate ultimately total less than $18.4   million —if SCO audit reductions remain unchallenged or upheld —the excess funds would revert to the General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - Finally, the state does not have a clear governance structure to track Opportunity Zone affordable housing investments and provide oversight and compliance monitoring. Given these limitations, it is not clear why the state should allocate new affordable housing dollars through an Opportunity Zone program as opposed to using established programs such as the state low-income housing tax credit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

2018-19 Budget: Voting Equipment for Counties

Mar 16, 2018 - Certifying final election results. Counties Pay Most Ongoing Election Costs. Typically, counties appropriate general fund revenue to pay for costs related to administering elections. Generally, when counties administer elections for other local governments —cities, special districts, and schools —those local governments pay for the cost of those elections.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3786

The 2016-17 Budget: Local Government Mandates--Reasonable Reimbursement Methodology

Mar 17, 2016 - The last opportunity —challenging a CSM decision in court —offers a fallback should any party disagree with the CSM ’s final decision. Thus, there are several opportunities for DOF or other interested parties to weigh in on whether an RRM proposal meets the requirements of state law.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3395