MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician)

Sep 9, 2025 - Twice each year through June 30, 2028, the parties would discuss methods and opportunities to improve the state ’s ability to recruit and retain Unit 18 members. Contracting Out. Twice a year, the parties would meet to examine existing personal services contracts that call for services found in Unit 18 class specifications.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - If the agreement is not ratified, that $206.8  million would be invested in the prefunding trust fund and given the next two decades to grow. If the fund averaged an annual return of 5  percent over the next 20 years, the $206.8  million would more than double to nearly $550  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

Jul 14, 2025 - The reduced amount of money invested in the trust fund will result in higher unfunded liabilities in the long-run. In most of the agreements, the state ’s contributions towards the benefit would be fully restored in 2027-28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - As such, if the state were to incorporate a DROP as part of its compensation package to Uni t 8 members, the state would bear the risks associated with the program (for example, if actual investment returns fell short of the interest rate applied to funds in a DROP account).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 12 (Craft and Maintenance)

Jun 27, 2025 - Suspension of Employer and Employee OPEB Contributions Missed Opportunity to Improve OPEB Prefunding Arrangement. We long have been critical of the state ’s retiree health prefunding strategy. We have found that establishing a benefit that fundamentally has no bearing on an employee ’s salary to be funded as a percentage of pay is overly complicated and creates risk that the benefit will not be fully funded by the target date.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - The first is payment towards the “normal cost, ” which is the amount of money that actuaries determine (based on actuarial assumptions like expected investment returns on assets) must be contributed to prefund the benefit earned by employees today.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Unit 9 ’s current members are represented by the Professional Engineers in California Government ( PECG ). The current memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the state and PECG is scheduled to expire June 30, 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists) [Publication Details]

Jul 14, 2025 - Unit 16’s current members are represented by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD). The current MOU between the state and UAPD expired on July 1, 2025. If the proposed successor MOU is not ratified, the provisions of the expired MOU generally would remain in effect as is required by the Ralph C.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5064

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - This change would improve consistency and limit existing incentives to inflate disability  ratings. Limit SIBTF Claims to Pre ‑Existing Disabilities That Interact With the Work Injury. Under current program rules, workers can qualify for SIBTF benefits even if the pre ‑existing condition does not interact with (or worsen the impact of) the work injury.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062