The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - What role do state policy decisions about eligibility processes play in affecting the complexity of operations and increasing or reducing the error rate in each program? Are there changes in state policy the state could consider that would reduce errors?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - In contrast, it could make sense for state entities that already play a role in oversight of CDCR —such as the Office of the Inspector General or the California State Auditor —to monitor implementation of or adherence to new policies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - Also, HCD currently plays a key role in the review and implementation of AHSC, so it already has “in house ” knowledge of the program. Further, the intent is that this knowledge and program capacity will be transmitted to HDFC through the proposed position transfers from HCD  to HDFC.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - This dynamic is at play in the 2026-27 Governor ’s Budget , which newly identifies $270  million in prior-year unspent TANF funds. Before accounting for other changes in spending levels, this unspent TANF funding results in a downward swing in General Fund dollars in CalWORKs in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - Defensible Space Plays Important Role in Reducing Home Ignitability. Researchers generally agree that it is important for homeowners to maintain an area free of excess or dead vegetation around their homes, known as defensible space.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457

^[PDF] Authorization of Online Poker in California

If the cost of playing on legal poker Web sites was greater than the cost of playing on illegal Web sites, due to taxes and fees paid by the players, there could be a fi scal disincentive to play and wager similar amounts on legal sites.  Security and Regulation.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/state_admin/2010/Online_Poker_02_09_10.pdf

^[PDF] The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

In contrast, it could make sense for state entities that already play a role in oversight of CDCR—such as the Office of the Inspector General or the California State Auditor—to monitor implementation of or adherence to new policies.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2025/4986/CDCR-022525.pdf

^[PDF] Authorizing Online Poker in California

How Legal Poker Web Sites Could Be Implemented in California 10L E G I S L A T I V E A N A L Y S T ’ S O F F I C E April 23, 2014 LAO 70 YEARS OF SERVICE  Cost to Play. If the cost of playing on legal poker websites was greater than the cost of playing on illegal websites, due to taxes and fees paid by the players, there could be a fi scal
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/education/2014/Authorizing-Online-Poker-in-California-042314.pdf

^[PDF] Addressing Chronic Vacancies In Prison Mental Health Care

Factors Outside of Compensation Likely Play a Major Role in Ability to Hire and Retain Staff. Although changes in compensation likely can affect the state’s ability to hire and retain staff, our analysis of vacancy rates at California prisons— across different classifications and between different prisons—suggests that other factors play an outsized role in vacancy rates at many prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2026/5134/Addressing-Chronic-Vacancies-Prison-Mental-Health-Care-022226.pdf

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Cap-and-Trade Reauthorization

May 7, 2025 - Revenues From Allowances Can Play Key Role in Helping Preserve Affordability. The value of allowances —both those that are given away for free and those that are sold to generate GGRF revenue —can play an important role in mitigating the program ’s impacts on affordability.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5042