The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - Natcast plans to ramp up the facility ’s design and prototyping work over time, once it renovates the facility to enable those types of activities. Governor ’s Proposal $25  Million for Semiconductor Design Facility.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - Specifically, the program has not collected conclusive and comparative information as to whether the Climate Action Corps program ’s approach of funding fellows to organize local volunteer efforts is more effective than other types of activities at mitigating the causes and impacts of climate change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723

Improving California's Regulatory Analysis

Feb 3, 2017 - As a result, the findings are more uncertain than a simple assessment of direct costs and benefits. Less Transparency. Given the complexity of many macroeconomic models, it is often difficult for the public and stakeholders to evaluate some of the underlying assumptions in the models.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3542

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California

Nov 5, 2020 - State and Federal Spending on COVID-19 COVID-19 Spending by Type. Figure  4 shows how the state and federal governments are spending to respond to COVID-19 by type and program area. Figure  5 shows the same data but organized by program area and then type.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4292

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - Because of this, households may be discouraged from moving from their existing unit to market –rate housing even when it may otherwise benefit them —for example, if the market –rate housing would be closer to a new job.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

Evaluation of the Property Tax Postponement Program

Oct 8, 2018 - Reverse mortgages are a type of home equity loan that are available only to seniors. The most common type of reverse mortgage is the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM), described in the nearby box.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3885

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - A different data source —the state Position Vacancy Report , which calculates the average annual vacancy rate across all types of staff in the department excluding temporary positions—reports an even higher vacancy rate: 13.6 percent as of 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

State Assistance to Businesses in Response to COVID-19

Jan 4, 2024 - As Figure 6 shows, per business in the area, larger metro regions tended to receive more in both types of assistance, most notably, Los Angeles, San  Francisco, and San Jose. Smaller metro areas —like Ukiah, Crescent City, and Truckee —received much less in both types of assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4824

The 2019-20 Budget: Increasing Compliance With Unclaimed Property Law

Mar 15, 2019 - This addition to tax forms could be relatively simple with a single question. For example, the tax form could ask: “Did your business submit a holder notice report to the California State Controller ’s Office last year?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3978

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - In addition to episodic disruptions, some of the most affected industries and regions may need to make long ‑term adjustments to remain viable, forcing some workers to relocate, train to adopt new industry practices, or shift to new types of work.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575