The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The reason for the reduction is the recent voter approval of Proposition  35 (2024), which requires the state to spend less MCO tax money on offsetting General Fund spending and more money on provider rate increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2020-21 Budget: Addressing Revenue Uncertainty in the 2020-21 Cap-and-Trade Expenditure Plan

Jun 4, 2020 - On the other hand, programs that allocate money to projects through one-time grants might be able to more easily scale their programs to different funding levels. How Much Funding Can a Program Spend in the Next Year?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4250

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—An Overview

Dec 21, 2018 - These households would have otherwise spent the money on some other economic activity. Similarly, businesses might have otherwise used the money to increase wages for existing jobs, invest in new technologies, or expand production.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3911

A Framework for Evaluating State-Level Green Stimulus Proposals

Jan 5, 2021 - For example, spending a greater share of the General Fund budget on environmental projects means less money is available for other state priorities, such as education, health care, or adding to reserves.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4308

The 2015-16 Budget: Major Features of the Adopted Plan (Other Issues)

Jun 19, 2015 - Pursuant to existing labor contracts and administrative actions, the state annually contributes money to a trust fund to prefund retiree health and dental benefits for rank-and-file and managerial highway patrol officers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3278

Framework For Cap-And-Trade Investment Plan Needs Further Development

Sep 22, 2015 - In our view, the investment plan process is an appropriate venue to have a high-level discussion of how auction proceeds should be spent —not just were the money could be spent. The science is complicated and constantly being updated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3298

Addressing California’s Convenience Zone Recycling Center Closures

May 16, 2016 - How Do CZ Recycling Centers Make Money? As shown in Figure 2, CZ recyclers earn money from two main sources: the sale of collected scrap material and payments from the Beverage Container Recycling Fund (BCRF) —processing payments, handling fees, and administrative fees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3466

Allocating Utility Wildfire Costs: Options and Issues for Consideration

Jun 21, 2019 - Neither the Governor ’s Strike Force nor the S B  901 Commission propose a specific amount of money for the fund. However, our understanding is that the liquidity ‑fund would be smaller than the wildfire fund discussed below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4079

The 2025-26 Budget: Natural Resources and Agriculture Discretionary Spending Proposals

Feb 18, 2025 - As a result, every dollar of new spending essentially requires making offsetting reductions elsewhere in the 2025 ‑26 budget or foregoing the opportunity to leave money in state reserves to prepare for future budget challenges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4967

The 2025-26 Budget: Various California Air Resources Board Proposals

Feb 24, 2025 - Also, while the annual budget process would give the Legislature an opportunity to appropriate the money raised by the proposed new fees, that also would not serve as an adequate substitute for legislative approval of the specific fees—by the time the department requests that the Legislature appropriate the revenue, CARB could already have set and levied the fees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4980