Climate Change Impacts Across California - K-12 Education

Apr 5, 2022 - The Legislature also could consider funding emergency management planning grants for districts and county offices of education (COEs) —specifically those that face the greatest risk and/or might have less capacity to prepare and respond to climate threats without state assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4586

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Health

Apr 5, 2022 - Following the 2018 Camp Fire, for example, nearby health systems in Butte County experienced increased demand due to the loss of 100 staffed hospital beds in Paradise. Increased Demand for Certain Services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4580

The 2022-23 Budget: State Appropriations Limit Implications

Mar 30, 2022 - (As of 2018 ‑19, cities and counties had over $150  billion in collective room under their limits. As a result, changing this definition is unlikely to result in very many local governments exceeding their limits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4583

The 2022-23 Budget: Middle Class Scholarship Program

Mar 30, 2022 - (For context, about 90  percent of tax filers in California are beneath this cap.) Revamped MCS Program Is Much Costlier Than Original Program. In fall 2021, CSAC prepared a cost estimate for the revamped MCS program using more detailed student ‑level data than was available when the 2021 ‑22 budget was enacted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4581

2021-22 “Big Three” Revenue Outlook Update: March 2022 [EconTax Blog]

Mar 28, 2022 - We currently project that there is a very good chance that collections from the state ’s “big three ” taxes —personal income, sales, and corporation taxes —will exceed the Governor ’s Budget assumption of $185 billion in 2021-22 by at least several billion dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/729

U.S. Retail Sales Update: February 2022 [EconTax Blog]

Mar 16, 2022 - U.S. retail sales (seasonally adjusted) grew 0.3 percent from January to February. Retail sales have been elevated after growing dramatically in early 2021, but inflation has offset much of the past year’s apparent “growth.”
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/728

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - Historically, a small statewide payroll tax provided funding for ETP grants but, in recent years, the state has supplemented this longstanding funding source with General Fund monies for targeted training grants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s Major Behavioral Health Proposals

Mar 3, 2022 - We  also find that the proposed cap on the number of county felony IST referrals (above which a county would pay a share of cost for felony IST treatment) raises state reimbursable mandate questions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4569

The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - The Governor ’s budget proposal includes $18.4  million in one ‑time General Fund to reimburse certain local governments in Los Angeles County for costs related to the Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges mandate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

Cannabis Tax Revenue Update [EconTax Blog]

Feb 23, 2022 - Cannabis Tax Revenue Update [EconTax Blog] Seth Kerstein In November 2016, California voters approved Proposition 64 , which legalized the nonmedical use of cannabis. The state levies two excise taxes on cannabis: a retail excise tax and a cultivation tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/726