The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - The administration indicates schools may use these funds for either ( 1)  s pecial education services for students with disabilities or ( 2)  e arly intervention programs for students who are not yet receiving special education services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - We raised concerns in 2019 that CalHR withheld (and continues to withhold) a compensation study it completed in 2018 (see our June 2019 analysis ) and proceeded to not produce compensation studies in 2019, 2020, or 2021 despite new agreements being submitted to the Legislature in those years (see our June 2021 analysis ).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - As we indicated in our 2019 MOU analysis and our 2024 budget analysis , the MVA has experienced periodic deficits and risks of insolvency over the past couple of decades. In response, the state has taken various actions to shore up the fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

May 30, 2018 - The administration indicates that transportation teams often travel through areas with weak or no cell service, and the new radio system would allow them to communicate while in these more remote areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3847

The 2021-22 Budget: Labor Agreements Ending Personal Leave Program 2020

Jun 25, 2021 - However, the administration did not submit a compensation study in 2019. At the time, the administration indicated that CCPOA and CalHR still had not resolved their methodological differences. In 2019, the Legislature ratified another one-year MOU for Unit 6 (henceforth referred to as the 2019 MOU ).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 18 (Psychiatric Technicians)

Jan 9, 2020 - The agreement does not specify who determines if normal cost has increased as a percentage of payroll; however, both the union and the administration indicated that the administration (Department of Finance and CalHR) will make this determination.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4134

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - State Undid Deferral in 2019 ‑20. The state undid the payroll deferral in 2019 ‑20. To undo the payroll deferral, the state ’s accounting reports reflected the state paying 13 months of payroll in one fiscal year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6

Jun 14, 2019 - The administration estimates that if the provisions effective in 2019 ‑20 were extended to excluded employees associated with Unit  6, the state ’s costs in 2019 ‑20 could increase as much as $19  million ($18.6  million General Fund) in 2019 ‑20.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4078

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - CAAP indicated that DROPs present multiple challenges for actuaries to accurately estimate the value of the benefit. 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

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Sep 12, 2019 - Specifically, DOJ indicated that the rates had not been adjusted to recover various annual cost increases —such as a total of $38  million in general salary and budget adjustments accumulated between 2009 ‑10 and 2018 ‑19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4095