The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - According to HDIS, California ’s 44 CoCs collectively provided services to about 337,000 people (unduplicated) who were experiencing homelessness during calendar year 2023. While complete data for 2024 are not yet available as of this writing, through September 30, 2024, about 310,000 people (unduplicated) had been served.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - The 2024-25 amount includes $1.2  million one time for the initial claiming period between the second half of 2020-21 and 2021-22. It also includes $1  million General Fund to support such costs in the budget year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

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

May 30, 2025 - CSM has identified four new state-reimbursable mandates since enactment of the 2024-25 Budget Act . All four concern municipal stormwater permits issued by regional water quality control boards and costs incurred by local governments prior to 2018.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate [Publication Details]

May 28, 2024 - The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4910

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

May 5, 2025 - This mandate is one of four newly identified mandates since enactment of the 2024-25 Budget Act . We will assess the other three mandates —also related to stormwater permits —after the administration proposes a course of action, potentially in the Governor ’s revised budget proposal in May.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - Awards would be anticipated in late 2023 ‑24 for AHSC and early in the 2024 ‑25 for the SuperNOFA. Affordable Housing Package Primarily Expands Existing State Programs. The  Governor proposes $1  billion in one ‑time General Fund over the next several years for affordable housing  development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

The 2018-19 Budget: County Assessor Funding

Feb 15, 2018 - Statewide, schools received about 40  percent of property tax collections, counties 25  percent, cities 18  percent, and special districts (including former redevelopment agency debts) 17  percent. These figures, however, are statewide averages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3756

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

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - These closures affected an average of about 950,000 students per year in 2017‑18 through 2019‑20. Schools and child care providers will need to plan for how they can maintain continuity of education and services—particularly for more vulnerable and impacted students—as climate change disruptions become more frequent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

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

May 12, 2021 - The state has until December 31, 2024 t o spend its federal ARP allocation. As such, we recommend the Legislature not allocate all of the ARP funds available to the state as part of its 2021 ‑ 22 b udget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428