The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization [Publication Details]

Feb 25, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization [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/4987

The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization

Feb 25, 2025 - As we understand it, BCSH would become two agencies: the Consumer Protection Agency and the Housing and Homelessness Agency. Each agency would be led by a Secretary, who would be a member of the Governor ’s cabinet.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - When proposing new projects, the administration generally follows the ranked project priority list identified in the judicial branch ’s 2019 assessment of facility needs. Since 2021 ‑22, the construction or renovation of about a dozen of the highest ranked immediate need projects have commenced.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Collective bargaining between the Governor and the state ’s rank-and-file employees (organized into 21 bargaining units) is governed by the Ralph C. Dills Act (Dills Act). The product of negotiations at the bargaining table is a labor agreement referred to as a memorandum of understanding (MOU).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

The 2025-26 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 18, 2025 - Chancellor ’s Office Then Ranks Projects Within Each Category. Districts typically submit more modernization and growth project proposals than available state bond funding can support. Each year, the Chancellor ’s Office uses certain scoring metrics to rank projects within these two categories.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5017

The 2025-26 Budget: Natural Resources and Agriculture Discretionary Spending Proposals [Publication Details]

Feb 18, 2025 - This brief discusses three discretionary General Fund spending proposals in the agriculture and natural resources policy areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4967

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

Feb 18, 2025 - The 2025 ‑26 Governor ’s Budget includes three notable new discretionary one ‑time General Fund expenditures in the agriculture and natural resources policy areas: (1) $24.9  million for the California Department of Food and Agriculture ’s (CDFA ’s) Farm to School Program, (2) $10  million for the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) to provide to the privately owned and
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4967

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project [Publication Details]

Mar 7, 2025 - This post provides issues for legislative consideration, as well as questions for the Legislature to ask, ahead of an expected May Revision budget proposal to fund development and implementation of the California State Payroll System information technology project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5011

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - The approved baseline cost of the CSPS IT project is about $1.2  billion, of which roughly 60  percent (or $700  million) is General Fund and 40  percent (or $450  million) is from the Central Service Cost Recovery Fund —a fund that recovers the costs incurred by certain agencies and departments for services shared by nearly all departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

Rethinking California's Reserve Policy

Apr 10, 2025 - These problems are also clear when California ’s reserves are compared to other states —California ranks near the top in terms of revenue volatility, but below average in terms of reserves. As such, our recommendations are an honest reflection of the volatility in the state ’s tax system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5028