The 2025-26 Budget: Understanding Recent Increases in the Medi-Cal Senior Caseload

Mar 6, 2025 - About 115,000 of Senior Growth Due to Policy Changes Are First ‑Time Medi ‑Cal Enrollees as a Result of Eligibility Expansions Since the Second Half of 2022. Figure  10 shows the average number of Medi ‑Cal enrollees over 65 who are enrolled in Medi ‑Cal for the first time in their lives in four selected time periods —before the continuous coverage period, during
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

^[PDF] Proposition 27: Allows Online and Mobile Sports Wagering Outside Tribal Lands. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute.

Creates New Fund „ Requires deposit of sports betting payments into a new California Online Sports Betting Trust Fund (COSBTF). COSBTF revenues must first be used for state regulatory costs. The rest would be used for two major purposes: — 85 percent to address homelessness and for gambling addiction programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/crimjust/2022/Prop-27-081022.pdf

Proposed constitutional initiative related to gaming activities. [Ballot]

Aug 1, 2018 - Banking games generally involve players betting against the “house, ” who is a participant in the game with an interest in its outcome, and percentage games generally involve the house receiving a percentage of the money involved in the game.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2018-003

^[PDF] Proposition 26: Allows In-Person Roulette, Dice Games, Sports Wagering on Tribal Lands. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute.

Requires tribes that choose to offer sports betting at tribal casinos first change their compacts with the state to allow it. Each tribe’s compact would lay out the requirements it must follow—such as the minimum age to place a bet, any required payments to the state and local governments, and whether tribal payments would go into the new CSWF.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/crimjust/2022/Proposition-26-081022.pdf

Immunology and immunotherapy. [Ballot]

Dec 17, 2025 - Applied and clinical research, which is mostly conducted by industry, u se that knowledge to develop and test treatments for specific medical conditions . The R &D process then continues through regulatory review and, finally, implementation —when new treatments reach patients.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-026

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - First, the budget problem is now larger than anticipated, despite improvements in revenue, and the structural deficits are significant and growing. Second, while our revenue estimates hedge against a market downturn, they do not reflect the revenue declines the state would experience in a recession.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

The 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - Short ‑Term vs. Long ‑Term Strategies. The  current supply chain disruptions are the result of both short ‑term issues, such as greater consumer demand, as well as long ‑term issues, such as the capacity and resilience of the goods movement system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

Gaming. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2023 - However, the deduction for free bets and promotional credits would be limited to the initial five years after a tribe begins its sports wagering operatio n. In the first year of operation, this deduction would be limited to 15  percent of all sports wagers made after deducting all player winnings.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-030

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - Once the stock market drops, revenue growth   first slows, then stalls, then turns negative. The dot-com example below illustrates this pattern. In practice, this means the state could see continued but weakened revenue growth for some time after a correction before the outlook turns clearly negative.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - Once the stock market drops, revenue growth   first slows, then stalls, then turns negative. The dot-com example below illustrates this pattern. In practice, this means the state could see continued but weakened revenue growth for some time after a correction before the outlook turns clearly negative.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852