The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The underlying budget dynamics today are particularly challenging for three reasons. First, revenues have not caught up with expenditures. Second, under our estimates, expenditure growth exceeds estimated revenue growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Apr 25, 2017 - The Legislature could formally require the Secretary of State to report its f indings and recommend possible improvements to SB  450 following the state ’s experience with the new voting model. How Should The State Use the Remaining 2009 Settlement Funds?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3656

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Advantages to the bidder include bid price adjustments (in the case of lowest price contracts) or point increases (in the case of contracts awarded based on scoring crite ria). For example, in contracts awarded based on the lowest price, a bidder’s “price” can be adjusted downward for the purpose of awarding the contract.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: State Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank

Oct 5, 2020 - Some small businesses in California are ineligible for these programs because their owners may have low credit scores, are undocumented immigrants, or face other barriers to receiving loans from the federal government and traditional lenders.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4271

Los Angeles' Bid for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics

Nov 10, 2016 - (This $1  million is equal to about $18  million today.) Voters approved the bond —Proposition  2 on the November 1928 ballot —with 73  percent voting yes. Amid the Depression, organizers used existing facilities, including the Memorial Coliseum, for 12 of 14  events.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3506

The Property Tax Inheritance Exclusion

Oct 9, 2017 - Consequently, monthly ownership costs for these homeowners were around $1,000 less than the typical homeowner ($1,650 vs. $670). Because most inherited homes have been owned for decades, children typically are receiving a property with lower ownership costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3706

The 2018-19 Budget: California Military Department

Feb 6, 2018 - However, the California School Dashboard —which provides information on how schools and districts are performing on test scores, graduation rates and other measures of student success —shows mixed results for student outcomes at OMI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3743

The 2017-18 Budget: Considering the State's Role in Elections

Mar 30, 2017 - This report discusses the landscape of elections administration in California today and the changes to that landscape in counties choosing to adopt the new elections model permitted. We then layout a framework for considering the roles and responsibilities in elections.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3634

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - (That is, in our view, these costs would not have occurred absent legislative action and as a result do not contribute to the budget problem the Legislature faces today.) Comparison to LAO November Outlook.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

Broad-Based Cash Assistance in COVID-19 Recovery Actions

Apr 3, 2020 - Although caseloads in many cash assistance programs tend to grow as overall economic conditions decline (for example, CalWORKs served approximately 70  percent more households during the Great Recession than it does today), none is designed to have a universal reach.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4214