How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - The Nasdaq composite, which includes the California headquartered companies Nvidia, Google, Facebook, Apple, AMD, and Broadcom, has doubled since 2023. The meteoric rise in the value of these companies has led to sizable gains for their investors and their employees via stock options, which has led income tax collections to grow at double-digit rates.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - The Nasdaq composite, which includes the California headquartered companies Nvidia, Google, Facebook, Apple, AMD, and Broadcom, has doubled since 2023. The meteoric rise in the value of these companies has led to sizable gains for their investors and their employees via stock options, which has led income tax collections to grow at double-digit rates.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852

The 2026-27 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 23, 2026 - For example, under the medical Receiver in the Plata court case, state spending on prison medical care has more than doubled since the first year of the Receivership (after accounting for inflation) —reaching $3.1  billion in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

Prohibit new taxes on financial assets and other personal property. [Ballot]

Jan 27, 2026 - File No. 25-00 41, Amendment #1). Background Certain Personal Property Is Taxed in California. Both the state and local governments tax owners of certain personal property based on the property ’s value.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-041

UC Federal Grants and Contracts for Medical Care, R&D, and Other Purposes [EdBudget]

Feb 21, 2026 - UC Federal Grants and Contracts for Medical Care, R&D, and Other Purposes [EdBudget] a Amounts for 2024-25 are estimates based on 11 months of actuals. b Reflects expenditures, not annual grant award amounts. c This row excludes expenditures from NIH grants. 
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/1047

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - The state added the doubling goal as a narrative water quality objective in the 1995 Bay ‑Delta Plan. Doubling natural production relative to the average annual 1967 ‑1991 baseline would mean nearly 900,000 naturally produced salmon annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

CSU Federal Grants and Contracts for Research and Other Purposes [EdBudget]

Feb 12, 2026 - CSU Federal Grants and Contracts for Research and Other Purposes [EdBudget] $291.8 $602.3 Notes: About 20 percent of federal funding at CSU is grants and contracts for R&D, workforce training, student support, outreach, and various other purposes (with the remainder for student financial aid).
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/1052

The 2026-27 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 11, 2026 - While the CJC project is necessary, the project ’s cost has more than doubled. Specifically, prior budgets included $64.1  million for this project, which was estimated to cost a total of $70.2  million, with the county covering the remaining balance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5113

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - This prospect becomes even more likely due to the up ‑to ‑doubling of the availability of federal 4  percent tax credits resulting from H.R. 1. The drawback of the Governor ’s proposed language is that, even if it were clear ahead of time to CDLAC and HDFC that the 50  percent set ‑aside was going to be too high in a particular year, private activity bonds could not be re
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: Permitting Support at the State Water Resources Control Board

Mar 2, 2026 - Supreme Court decision — Sackett v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ( Sackett ) —narrowed the definition of WOTUS. The ruling limits federal jurisdiction to relatively permanent bodies of water and to wetlands that have a continuous surface connection to WOTUS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5144