2025-26 Changes in Proposition 98 Spending [EdBudget]

Feb 4, 2025 - 2025-26 Changes in Proposition 98 Spending [EdBudget] 2025-26 Proposition 98 Spending $118,923 a Applies to Child and Adult Care Food Program, K-12 Mandates Block Grant, and special education. b Reflects additional LCFF costs associated with serving more students in transitional kindergarten, including costs of existing 12:1 staffing ratios. c The Governor's budget also includes $229 million in
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/939

Local taxes. [Ballot]

Jul 1, 2025 - Long-standing state law permits California ’s 58 counties to impose and collect a tax on the transfer of ownership in real estate. This is known as a documentary transfer tax. The tax is limited to 55 cents per $500 in property sale (or 0.11 percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-004

Local taxes. [Ballot]

Jul 1, 2025 - Long-standing state law permits California ’s 58 counties to impose and collect a tax on the transfer of ownership in real estate. This is known as a documentary transfer tax. The tax is limited to 55 cents per $500 in property sale (or 0.11 percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-005

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - Figure 3 2025 ‑26 Funding for Other CDSS ‑Administered State and Federal Food Assistance Programs (In Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - As shown in Figure  1 , about 34  million individuals resided in California in 2000. At the beginning of 2024, about 39  million individuals resided in the state, representing a population increase of about 16  percent (relative to  2000).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

Rethinking California's Reserve Policy

Apr 10, 2025 - In March of 2004, on the heels of the dot ‑com bust, voters passed Proposition  58, which created the Budget Stabilization Account (BSA). In the 2006 ‑07 budget, the Legislature deposited $472  million into the BSA and in 2007 ‑08 deposited $1.5  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5028

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - As specified below, the agreement would provide all Unit 9 members pay increases on July 1, 2025 and on July 1, 2027. 2025-26: 3  Percent General Salary Increase (GSI). Effective July 1, 2025, the agreement would provide all state employees represented by Unit 9 a 3  percent pay increase.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - Since the passage of the 2022-23 budget, there have been 58 graduates of this program. In the Governor ’s proposed May Revision, approximately $3.4  million for these programs is proposed for reversion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - This means that the agreement would be in effect for the duration of three fiscal years: 2025-26, 2026-27, and 2027-28 Pay Increases. 2025-26: 3  Percent General Salary Increase (GSI). Effective the first day of the pay period following ratification, the agreement would provide all Unit 16 members a GSI of 3  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - The judicial branch currently manages around 435  facilities across all 58 counties. Its facility program is responsible for various activities including maintaining these facilities, managing leases, and constructing new courthouses to replace outdated facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959