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

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

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Advantages to the bidder include bid price adjustments (in the case of lowest price contracts) or point increases (in the case of contracts awarded based on scoring crite ria). For example, in contracts awarded based on the lowest price, a bidder’s “price” can be adjusted downward for the purpose of awarding the contract.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - The department has always faced costs related to inflation, replacement of old equipment, and increases in gas prices —these are not anomalous events. As such, why the department needs an augmentation for covering baseline costs this year rather than accommodating them through relying on its historical practice is unclear.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2022-23 Budget: California Department of Technology

Feb 22, 2022 - In other words, despite the 10  percent reduction in fees, the department ’s proposal to temporarily cover some of its indirect administrative costs outside of the rate structure would not make some of the IT services it provides competitively priced.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4552

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - These programs generally work in one of three ways: (1) increasing the supply of moderately priced housing, (2) paying a portion of households ’ rent costs, or (3) limiting the prices and rents property owners may charge for housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

The Property Tax Inheritance Exclusion

Oct 9, 2017 - A property ’s assessed value is based on its purchase price. In the year a property is purchased, it is taxed at its purchase price. Each year thereafter, the property ’s taxable value increases by 2  percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3706

Nutrition Programs in COVID-19 Recovery Actions

Mar 25, 2020 - Second, many sites providing meals to targeted populations have closed during the current crisis, including schools which provide students free or reduced-priced meals and congregate meal sites which serve seniors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4211

The 2020-21 Budget: The Governor’s Cannabis‑Related Proposals

Feb 14, 2020 - Specifically, in that report, we analyzed four types of taxes: Basic ad valorem , set as a percentage of price, such as the current retail excise tax. Weight ‑based , such as the current cultivation tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4162

Evaluation of the Property Tax Postponement Program

Oct 8, 2018 - Introduction California home prices have been higher than the U.S. average since the 1940s. In the 1970s, California home prices began growing particularly quickly, significantly outpacing the growth in the rest of the nation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3885