The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Beginning in 2018, Chapter  681 of 2017 (SB  395, Lara) required that arrested youths age 15 and younger be provided a consultation with legal counsel before they may waive their Miranda rights or be interrogated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government

Oct 22, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget Act appropriates $100  million one-time General Fund for Round 5 of the ERF initiative —consistent with an agreement between the Legislature and Governor as part of June 2024 negotiations over the final 2024-25 Budget Act .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Through 2024-25 (that is, through four rounds of funding), the Legislature has provided a total of $900  million in General Fund support for the program. Allowable uses of the funds include outreach to people living in the identified encampments; housing navigators and other case managers to connect people with housing, health care, and other services they may
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - Four Mandates Addressed in Proposed 2025-26 Budget, Including Three in May Revision. CSM has identified four new state-reimbursable mandates since enactment of the 2024-25 Budget Act . All four concern municipal stormwater permits issued by regional water quality control boards and costs incurred by local governments prior to 2018.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate [Publication Details]

May 28, 2024 - The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4910

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - This mandate is one of four newly identified mandates since enactment of the 2024-25 Budget Act . We will assess the other three mandates —also related to stormwater permits —after the administration proposes a course of action, potentially in the Governor ’s revised budget proposal in May.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

Major Milestones: Over Four Decades of the State-Local Fiscal Relationship [Publication Details]

Nov 29, 2012 - The latest version has been updated to reflect recent elections, 2011 realignment, and the dissolution of redevelopment and expanded to include milestones related to education finance. Note: The PDF file has three pages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2669

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - Furthermore, most of the continuous appropriations were established as part of the 2014 ‑15 budget, and legislative priorities may have changed over the last several years. If the Legislature were to determine that the AHSC Program were a much higher priority than other programs receiving GGRF revenue, the continuous appropriations could be reset accordingly.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards [Publication Details]

May 30, 2025 - In this post, we discuss the Governor's May Revision budget proposal to retroactively suspend three municipal stormwater mandates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5054

An Initial Look at Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Local Government Fiscal Condition

May 12, 2021 - While 25 p ercent of cities received federal funds that constituted at least 20 p ercent of 2018 ‑ 19 r evenues, 5 p ercent of cities ( 24 c ities) received federal funds that constituted only between 0. 03 p ercent and 3. 8 p ercent of 2018 ‑ 19 r evenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428