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

May 5, 2025 - …However, Multiple Additional Stormwater-Related Test Claims Pending at the Commission. Each test claim submitted to CSM is different and has to be considered individually. However, if CSM was to determine that each of the currently pending stormwater-related test claims constituted state-reimbursable mandates for costs incurred before 2018, the state could face greater costs to reimburse local governments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

May 30, 2025 - This includes 32 pending test claims and 4 additional claims for which CSM has already identified state-reimbursable mandated activities but has not yet developed cost estimates. Each test claim submitted to CSM is different and has to be considered individually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

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

Feb 28, 2022 - Multiple Additional Stormwater ‑Related Test Claims Pending at the Commission. While not directly linked to this mandate, the commission has 37 pending test claims related to other stormwater permits issued by the state water boards dating back to 2009.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

Sheriff Court-Security Services Mandate

May 27, 2016 - The commission noted in its estimate, however, that there are additional counties that alleged costs in the test claim that have not yet filed claims. Accordingly, the cost of the mandate could increase.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3478

2018-19 Budget: Voting Equipment for Counties

Mar 16, 2018 - Proposition  1A required the state (1)  to reimburse local governments for these outstanding prior-years ’ mandates costs and (2)  either to suspend or reimburse local governments for state mandates on an ongoing basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3786

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: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2025 - To assist the Legislature in its fiscal oversight role of this large and multiyear program, this post: (1) provides data on the size of the population of people experiencing homelessness in California and recent state spending on housing and homelessness; (2) describes the ERF program’s goals, funding, and reporting requirements; (3) provides an update on ERF grantee awards,
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5007

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Figure 2 Through 2024 ‑25, the State Has Provided $900 Million for Four Rounds of ERF General Fund (In Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

An Initial Look at Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Local Government Fiscal Condition

May 12, 2021 - If so, the Legislature could consider targeting these additional resources to those local governments that, based on the factors presented in this an alysis, are under the most fiscal pressure due to a combination of ( 1) d ecreased revenues, ( 2) i ncreased costs, and ( 3) r elatively lower allocations of state and federal relief funds thus far.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428