Major Higher Education Budget Developments [EdBudget]

Jul 23, 2025 - Late-June Final Budget Agreement: Chapters 5, 6, 9 Retains most aspects of the CCC Proposition 98 legislative package. Makes some changes to one-time funding, including reinstating funding for the Governor ’s CTE proposals to May Revision levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/992

New Higher Education Reporting Requirements [EdBudget]

Jul 21, 2025 - TBL refers to trailer bill language contained in Chapter 9 of 2025 (AB 123, Committee on Budget). b Campuses are to submit their turnaround plans to the CSU Chancellor's Office by December 31, 2025. c Reporting requirement is included in SB 437 (Weber Pierson). d Reflects due date for report from the CCC Chancellor's Office.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/977

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Legislative Ratification of Agreements With Units 6, 9, and 12. In June 2025, our office issued analyses of proposed labor agreements with Units 6 (Corrections) , 9 (Professional Engineers) , and 12 (Craft and Maintenance) .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

California New Car Registrations: May 2025 [EconTax Blog]

Jul 9, 2025 - California New Car Registrations: May 2025 [EconTax Blog] California New Car Registrations: May 2025 July 9, 2025 Seth Kerstein As discussed in an earlier post , new car purchases can be a useful, timely economic indicator.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/834

California New Car Registrations: May 2025 [EconTax Blog]

Jul 9, 2025 - California New Car Registrations: May 2025 [EconTax Blog] California New Car Registrations: May 2025 July 9, 2025 Seth Kerstein As discussed in an earlier post , new car purchases can be a useful, timely economic indicator.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/834

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) [Publication Details]

Jun 27, 2025 - MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers) [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/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - The state and Unit 9 agreed to this prefunding arrangement in 2015 with the fund expected to be fully funded for Unit 9 within 30 years. Today, the state and employees represented by Unit 9 contribute 2 percent of pay to prefund the benefit for Unit 9 members.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Unlike the CalHR-developed methodology used for the compensation study of Units 2, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16, 18, and 19, the Unit 6 compensation study uses a methodology that was agreed to at the bargaining table through a Joint Labor Management Committee process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - As shown in Figure  9 , the statewide CalWORKs participation rate was about 9  percent in 2023 ‑24. However, across counties, county ‑level CalWORKs participation rates (among families with children) varied from under 3  percent in certain counties (such as San Mateo, Placer, and Marin Counties) to over 20  percent in other counties (such as Del Norte and Imperial  Counties).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

Retail Theft in California: Looking Back at a Decade of Change

Jun 12, 2025 - Specifically, they found that the increase in California’s larceny rate immediately following Proposition 47 was 9 percent larger than that of similar states. In a 2024 study , PPIC researchers analyzed changes in prison and jail incarceration rates as well as property crime clearance rates to see if they were associated with changes in crime, including measures of retail theft.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055