The 2025-26 Budget: Natural Resources and Agriculture Discretionary Spending Proposals

Feb 18, 2025 - Specifically, the survey found that 23  percent of respondents earn $30,000 or less; 19  percent earn between $30,001 and $60,000; 15  percent earn between $60,001 and $90,000; and 11  percent report earning between $90,001 and $120,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4967

A Framework for Evaluating State-Level Green Stimulus Proposals

Jan 5, 2021 - However, very little of this funding is provided directly to states and, as a result, the state has limited influence over how the money will be spent. If the federal government provides additional stimulus funds that can be used for environmental projects and provides states with some discretion over specific spending decisions, then the
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4308

Addressing California’s Convenience Zone Recycling Center Closures

May 16, 2016 - How Do CZ Recycling Centers Make Money? As shown in Figure 2, CZ recyclers earn money from two main sources: the sale of collected scrap material and payments from the Beverage Container Recycling Fund (BCRF) —processing payments, handling fees, and administrative fees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3466

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Residential Electricity Rates in California

Jan 7, 2025 - Step 3: Determine How to Structure Residential Rates. The third step generally includes determining how to structure the rates for residential customers to generate the required revenues. This includes determining how much of the money should be generated from fixed charges versus from volumetric charges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950

Improving Outcomes for California Conservation Corpsmembers

Feb 9, 2018 - Require Report on How to Improve Retention. Corpsmember retention has a broad impact on CCC ’s ability to achieve its goals. Given its importance, we recommend the Legislature require CCC to prepare a report by 2020 o n how corpsmember retention can be improved.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3742

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—An Overview

Dec 21, 2018 - Policies that promote efficiency —such as efficiency standards for buildings, appliances, and vehicles —can lower the amount of money spent on energy or fuel. This means households and businesses can use the money for other activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3911

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - These closures affected an average of about 950,000 students per year in 2017‑18 through 2019‑20. Schools and child care providers will need to plan for how they can maintain continuity of education and services—particularly for more vulnerable and impacted students—as climate change disruptions become more frequent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - Specifically, we recommend the Legislature set enrollment expectations for each segment, decide how much to provide for graduation and other core student support initiatives, and determine how much to provide for compensation increases and other operating costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

Framework For Cap-And-Trade Investment Plan Needs Further Development

Sep 22, 2015 - In other words, the investment plan can provide a general framework for how policymakers evaluate different spending options so that they can compare the relative costs and benefits of these options.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3298

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - How Can These Monies Be Used? In a normal budget year, General Fund surplus monies are available to use for any public purposes. This is not necessarily the case in this May Revision. That is because the SAL, which limits how the state can use revenues that exceed a specified threshold, is salient to the state budget process this year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432