Assessing Vulnerability of State Assets to Climate Change

Jan 9, 2020 - Assessing Vulnerability of State Assets to Climate Change January 9, 2020 Assessing Vulnerability of State Assets to Climate Change In this post, we discuss current efforts being made by state departments to assess the potential for severe risks to state facilities posed by climate change, such as sea level rise and more wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4133

The 2020-21 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 11, 2020 - Develop Comprehensive Response Strategy Among State and Local Governments. The Council recommends the state develop a comprehensive response strategy that identifies a clear path for responding to the state ’s homelessness crisis and assigns clear responsibilities to the state, cities, and counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4152

Building Permits Update: January 2021 [EconTax Blog]

Mar 11, 2021 - Single family activity has rebounded strongly since the pandemic-driven spring slump, as prices have been rising in most of the state ’s metropolitan areas. This was the seventh straight month in which the total exceeded the recent average for the month.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/633

May 2020 Cap-and-Trade Auction Update [EconTax Blog]

May 28, 2020 - Unlike recent auctions, where essentially all state-owned allowances offered for sale were purchased, only 4 percent of the available state-owned allowances were purchased at the May 2020 auction. (About 34 percent of the overall number of allowances offered for sale were purchased—including allowances held by the state, utilities, and Quebec.)
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/472

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California [Publication Details]

Nov 5, 2020 - This post provides a high-level summary of state and federal funds provided to date to respond to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4292

Potential Impacts of Recent State Asset Forfeiture Changes

Jan 6, 2020 - Reporting on State Cases Sometimes Did Not Occur. State law requires annual reporting on asset forfeiture cases that are resolved through state proceedings to the CA DOJ. However, 41  p ercent of the state ’s 58 c ounties did not report such data in at least one of the past eight years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4128

Analysis of California’s Physician-Supervision Requirement for Certified Nurse Midwives

Mar 11, 2020 - The San Joaquin Valley and northern and Sierra regions of the state also have significantly fewer OB ‑GYNs per 1, 000 b irths than the more urban and coastal regions of the state. This suggests that —when only counting OB ‑ GYNs —access to women ’s health care services might be limited in certain areas of the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4197

March 2020 Jobs Report [EconTax Blog]

Apr 17, 2020 - Overall employment in the state as of the second week of March was still 0.9 percent above the level in March 2019, similar to the national figure of 1.0 percent. Just over two-thirds of the state ’s net losses in March came from the leisure and hospitality sector, which includes restaurants, hotels, and entertainment businesses.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/455

Review of the Draft 2020 High-Speed Rail Business Plan

Mar 13, 2020 - If the state procures electric trains in 2020, as currently envisioned by HSRA, it would commit the state in the near term to running electrified service, unless the state was willing to leave the trainsets idle.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4202

State Corrections: Response to COVID-19

May 8, 2020 - State Corrections: Response to COVID-19 COVID-19 State Corrections: Response to COVID-19 The emergence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) represents a serious challenge for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4229