The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

Apr 3, 2025 - Money Transmitters Program. Regulates, supervises, and examines businesses that receive money for transmission and sell or issue payment instruments and stored value. (These can include businesses that issue money orders and traveler ’s checks, as well as those that offer digital payments, such as PayPal and Stripe.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - 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/5156

Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - Cash, Food, and Medical Assistance Can Offset Housing Costs a (In Millions) Free and reduced price lunch 2,838 $4,097 a Where possible, we tried to identify funding targeting children and families. b Earned Income Tax Credit amounts reflect combination of federal tax year data and state fiscal year data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

The 2017-18 Budget: The State Controller’s Office Unclaimed Property Program

Feb 24, 2017 - The value of a security can go up —or down —after it is liquidated to cash by the SCO. On average, certain owners may realize gains as a result of the 18 ‑month waiting period as those securities rise in value or earn income in the form of interest, dividends, and other payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3584

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - Some Subsidized Employment Programs Can Be Effective for Some Populations … While there are a variety of program models for subsidized employment, some have stronger evidence of success than others. Overall, most programs increase employment and earnings among participants while receiving a subsidy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

Evaluation of the Property Tax Postponement Program

Oct 8, 2018 - Homeowners who are younger than retirement age and are not disabled are more likely to be able to participate in the labor force, earning income. However, working age people can sometimes experience a temporary reduction in income as a result of a job loss or illness, and, for a period of time, may not be able to afford their property taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3885

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposed Reductions to State Operations

May 21, 2024 - Money is fungible, if the Legislature were to approve both the unallocated reductions and the proposed budget augmentations to fund new activities, what assurances can the administration provide that the newly approved funding and position authority would be used to implement the new activities and not, instead, used to backfill reductions established through the administrative exercises?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4903

The 2017-18 Budget: Secretary of State Spring Finance Letter

Apr 25, 2017 - Money from the General Fund —rather than one-time settlement money —likely will need to be the funding source for any ongoing oversight activities in the future. 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/3656

The 2020 Census: Potential Impacts on California

Dec 13, 2018 - For example, the Bureau could use imputation to estimate how many people live in a household that never responded to the Census. Or, if a household completes the survey, but does not indicate the age of one of the people living there, the Bureau can use imputation to estimate the persons age.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3909

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California

Nov 5, 2020 - For example, school closures disrupted how students would traditionally receive free or reduced price meals during the school day. Both the federal and state government provided additional money so local educational agencies could continue providing meals to students who are now learning remotely.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4292