The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board [Publication Details]

May 5, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board [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/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - State law tasks the Commission on State Mandates (CSM) with determining whether new state laws or regulations affecting local governments create state-reimbursable mandates. Typically, the process for determining whether a law or regulation is a state-reimbursable mandate takes several years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: Various California Air Resources Board Proposals

Feb 24, 2025 - Yet a  key  drawback to this approach is that it obligates the state to hire and maintain permanent staff —and support their associated future pension benefits —even when they may no longer be needed or justified after the short ‑term workload they were brought on to complete has ended.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4980

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - Activities required by federal law are not considered mandates for which the state must reimburse costs. State law tasks the Commission on State Mandates (CSM) with determining whether new state laws or regulations affecting local governments create state-reimbursable mandates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2025-26 Budget: May Revision Trailer Bill Proposals on the Delta Conveyance Project and Water Quality Control Plans

May 27, 2025 - Water Quality Control Plans CEQA Exemptions Background Per state and federal law, the SWRCB —together with its nine regional water quality control boards —develop water quality control plans (WQCPs) to regulate and protect water quality in the state ’s major water basins, including in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Bay-Delta) watershed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5053

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards [Publication Details]

May 30, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
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The 2025-26 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Reauthorization and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Proposals at May Revision

May 19, 2025 - Given funding limitations, we recommend the Legislature focus both General Fund and GGRF on its highest priorities across the entire state budget. Legislature Has Other Options for Using GGRF as a Budget Solution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5049

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Cap-and-Trade Reauthorization

May 7, 2025 - Also, roughly half of the allowances are sold by the state, deposited in the GGRF, and used to fund a variety of state environmental programs. This aspect of the program is a key distinction of cap ‑and trade as compared to alternative approaches for reducing GHG emissions —such as direct industry regulations or the LCFS program —which do not generate discretionary revenues that the state can direct to offset costs or meet its policy goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5042

Overview of State Wildfire Resilience Funding, Actions, and Considerations [Publication Details]

Apr 23, 2025 - Overview of State Wildfire Resilience Funding, Actions, and Considerations [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/5030

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

Feb 18, 2025 - The California State Parks Library Pass Program provides free access to state parks through 33,000 passes that can be checked out from public library branches throughout the state. Passes can be checked out by all library card holders.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4967