The 2020-21 Budget: Governor’s Fiscal Oversight Proposals

Mar 19, 2020 - Background School Districts Must Have Their Budgets Approved by Their County Office of Education (COE). Before the start of each fiscal year, districts are required to submit their locally developed budget plans to their respective COEs for review.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4204

Proposition 27 [Ballot]

Nov 8, 2022 - However, it bans bets on certain other events such as high school games and elections. The proposition allows the following groups to apply for a five-year license to offer online sports betting: Tribes With Tribal-State Compacts.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=27&year=2022

Property tax assessment. [Ballot]

Aug 22, 2019 - Schools could receive similar property tax gains. Change in State Funding for Schools. Should schools gain property tax revenues under the measure, state funding for schools may decrease by a similar amount in some years.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2019-003

California Community Colleges—Managing Cash in a Time of State Payment Deferrals

Dec 18, 2020 - Proposition   98 c onstitutionally governs the minimum amount of funding provided to schools and community colleges each year. In June 2020, the state estimated that the Proposition   98 m inimum guarantee had dropped notably for both 2019 ‑20 and 2020 ‑ 21 r elative to assumptions it had made one year earlier (in June 2019), prior to the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4307

The 2020-21 Budget: Cal Grant Cost Estimates

Nov 21, 2019 - We estimate the percentage of high school seniors who applied for an entitlement award increased from roughly 35  percent in the 2009 ‑10 award year to roughly 50  percent in the 2017 ‑18 award year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4114

The 2019-20 May Revision: Considerations for the Revised Housing and Homelessness Plan

May 13, 2019 - As of January 2018, California has about 130,000 homeless individuals, which represented about 25  percent of the total homeless population in the nation. Addressing California ’s housing and homelessness crisis is one of the most difficult challenges facing the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4045

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

Sep 20, 2021 - Our current best estimate is that the amount of unanticipated revenue likely will fall somewhere between $5 billion and $25 billion. As reflected by the width of this range, with so much of the fiscal year ahead of us there remains significant uncertainty about how much the state ultimately will collect.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/698

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - The 2022-23 spending plan provides over $25 billion from the General Fund for human services programs. This is an increase of over $4 billion, or 19 percent, compared to the revised, prior-year spending level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services [Publication Details]

Oct 21, 2022 - The 2022-23 spending plan provides over $25 billion from the General Fund for human services programs. This is an increase of over $4 billion, or 19 percent, compared to the revised, prior-year spending level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4640

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - Under prior law, CFAP provides state-funded nutrition benefits to low-income legal permanent residents who have resided in the U.S. for less than five years. (These individuals would otherwise be eligible for CalFresh benefits, but were rendered ineligible by a federal welfare reform bill passed in 1996.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/3