Changes in University of California General Fund Spending [EdBudget]

Feb 13, 2026 - DOF included in Schedule 9 the original appropriations. e Reflects removal of $8.1 million from UC's budget relating to a UC Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College intersegmental housing project being shifted to being supported with Proposition 2 funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/1044

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 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

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - In 1991 ‑92, the caseload grew at a rate of 8.1  percent. The following year (1992 ‑93), the caseload growth dropped to 1.4  percent. Over the next eight years, growth rates fluctuated between 3  percent and 8  percent, until reaching a peak growth rate of 10.2  percent and 10.4  percent in 2001 ‑02 and 2002 ‑03, respectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 4, 2026 - From  an accounting perspective, nearly all of this spending ($8.1  billion) is attributable to the increase in the 2026 ‑27 guarantee. Most of the remaining $1.6  billion relates to 2024 ‑25, reflecting the increase in the guarantee and the settle ‑up payment being made that year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

Oversight of certain public benefit artificial intelligence (AI) companies. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - The measure would have the following major fiscal effects: Increased state costs that would likely be in the tens of millions of dollars annually to establish and operate a new regulatory commission overseeing certain public benefit AI com panies.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-033