The 2018-19 Budget: Meeting Workforce Demand for Certified Nursing Assistants in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Apr 27, 2018 - State Regulations Set Time Frames for DPH to Process Applications. Current state regulations require DPH to respond to applicants for new CNA training programs and new CNA certifications within set time frames.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3815

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - Within EDD, the Employment Training Panel (ETP) is a quasi ‑independent entity that distributes training grants to businesses for the employer to set up programs to train existing, incumbent workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - These slots would be on top of the almost 9,000 full ‑day slots the state added over the past three years. Extending preschool to all children from low ‑income families is consistent with considerable research that has concluded the benefits of preschool are greatest for these children.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - This statutory comparison predates the state employee collective bargaining process established by the Ral ph C. Dills Act. (Prior to collective bargaining, the State Personnel Board [SPB] annually would recommend to the Legislature salary ranges for classifications.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - As one point of reference, this is roughly equivalent in size to the state ’s outstanding federal Unemployment Insurance loan taken out during the pandemic that employers are set to repay over the coming years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings [Publication Details]

Jul 11, 2025 - Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings [Publication Details] Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings Format: HTML Description: The final 2025-26 budget package approved by the Legislature maintained the May Revision level of savings in employee compensation and set an expectation for the administration and the state’s 21 bargaining units to meet and confer in good faith in order to achieve those savings through the collective bargaining process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5063

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - The final 2025-26 budget package approved by the Legislature maintained the May Revision level of savings in employee compensation and set an expectation for the administration and the state’s 21 bargaining units to meet and confer in good faith in order to achieve those savings through the collective bargaining process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals

Mar 20, 2024 - In 2023 ‑24, the CalSTRS Board set the state ’s supplemental rate to 6.311  percent (the same rate the state has paid for the past few years), while the “unconstrained ” actuarially required rate —what the CalSTRS Board could set as the state ’s rate if it had full rate ‑setting authority to meet the goal of eliminating unfunded liabilities by 2046 —would be around 3.5  percent according to CalSTRS ’ most recent actuarial valuation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4887

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Because the state had not set aside funds to prefund retiree health benefits for much of the benefit ’s existence, a large and growing unfunded liability exists. In the most recent actuarial valuation (as of June 30, 2023) the state’s unfunded liability associated with this benefit for all state employees is estimated to be $85.2 billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - Unit 16 consists of physicians, psychiatrists, dentists, podiatrists, and other medical professionals who work in institutionalized settings, such as prisons and hospitals. Unit 16 ’s current members are represented by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists ( UAPD ).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064