The 2025-26 Budget: California Military Department—STARBASE Classroom Building

Feb 20, 2025 - Department of Defense-authorized educational program designed to provide elementary- and secondary-aged students with supplemental education in the fields of science, technology, engineering, art and design, and mathematics (STEAM).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4976

California Tax Expenditures Programs: Sales and Use Taxes Part 1

California Tax Expenditures Programs: Sales and Use Taxes Part 1 3,264 Description This program exempts from taxation the sale or transfer of gas, electricity, water (including steam), and geothermal brines or other heat sources delivered through mains, lines, or pipes.
https://lao.ca.gov/1999/tax_expenditure_299/tep_299_salestax1.html

The 2016-17 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 22, 2016 - The project also included the construction of a new thermal energy storage tank, new cooling towers, and a new steam turbine distributed generation system. The project is now essentially complete, and the administration estimates that there will be an estimated project savings of $2.7  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3362

Proposal for 18 Positions in Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources

Mar 9, 2012 - During the 2010-11 budget year, the Legislature approved a request by the administration for 17 positions that were intended to enhance and strengthen the regulatory oversight of new technologies including shallow thermal diatomite injection wells, hydraulic fracturing, steam injection, and CO 2 injection wells.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/569

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

California's Tax System: A Primer, Chapter 3

Largest SUT Tax Expenditure Programs 1998-99(In Millions) Gas, electricity, water, steam, and heat $2,482 Candy, gum, and confectionery products 165 74 SUT Rates Vary by County The SUT rates in California differ by county, and range from 7 percent to 8.25 percent, depending on whether a county chooses to levy optional taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/2001/tax_primer/0101_taxprimer_chapter3.html

California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - After the dot-com bust and the Great Recession, it took four and five years, respectively, for revenues to recover. Incorporating revenue risk into the budget now, therefore, reflects prudence, not pessimism.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

LAO Analysis of the 1998-99 Budget Bill Capital Outlay Departmental Issues 2

It generates steam (which it sells to the hospital) and electricity (which it sells to electricity uti lities in southern California). The state is contractually committed to purchase steam from this plant.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/cap_outlay_depts2_anl98.html

A proposed statutory initiative prohibiting the generation of nuclear power in California. [Ballot]

Oct 14, 2015 - (A second nuclear power plant —San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Diego —was permanently shut down in 2013 after a water leak was detected in one of the steam generators.) Unlike some energy sources, such as wind and solar that serve as an intermittent source of energy, nuclear power provides “base load ” energy, meaning that it generally provides a relatively uninterrupted, reliable power source.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-055