Income Tax Withholding Tracker: October 19 - October 23 [EconTax Blog]

Oct 23, 2020 - The first graph compares withholding payments received  this   week to payments received in the comparable week in 2019, which ran from Monday, October 21 to Friday, October 25 of that year. Withholding was up 27 percent from the comparable week in 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/570

The 2019-20 Budget: California Student Aid Commission's Grant Delivery System Modernization Project

Apr 24, 2019 - Students, high school staff, and college financial aid administrators also use the system. Most notably, students and high school staff use the system to submit information needed for financial aid applications, and college administrators use the system to process aid payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4013

The 2021-22 Budget: University Capital Outlay

Mar 5, 2021 - UC must certify compliance with this requirement each year before DOF may approve UC projects. According to DOF, UC is still developing a process to use to demonstrate its compliance. UC Is Requesting Approval of One Project in 2021 ‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4395

Drug crimes. [Ballot]

Oct 25, 2023 - For example, people who receive five years in prison (such as because they were previously convicted of a sex crime) for selling fentanyl under current law could instea d receive up to 12 years for selling fentanyl resulting in death under the measure.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-023

Drug and theft crimes. [Ballot]

Oct 11, 2023 - The measure adds fentanyl to the set of drugs to which this felony applies, thereby increasing the sentences for people convicted of this crime for fentanyl from up to one year in jail in most cases to up to four years in prison.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-017

The 2022-23 Budget: Federal Tax Conformity for Federal Business Assistance

Jan 26, 2022 - In addition, estimating in which years the revenue losses would occur is difficult. This is because most of the businesses that would benefit from conforming to the federal tax tr eatment of these grants have operating losses and will not owe taxes this year, or perhaps for several years.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4501

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - Most notably, the Governor provides a combined $ 900  m illion for six programs aimed at improving school employee training, recruitment, and retention. The budget also provides $ 600  m illion for two new grant programs: (1) $ 300  m illion for grants to help low ‑performing schools and districts improve their performance and (2) $ 300  m illion for
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

Affordable housing bonds. [Ballot]

Jan 3, 2022 - Local governments can issue bonds to pay for capital projects, such as bridges, schools, hospitals, affordable housing, water treatment facilities, and other public buildings. Although local governments can pay for capital projects with current revenues, borrowing allows them to spread the costs across many years, which often reflects the longer usage of the projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-040

February 2021 State Tax Collections [EconTax Blog]

Mar 22, 2021 - The increase in the windfall, however, will be considerably smaller than the amount of surplus tax collections as much of the money will go toward satisfying constitutional school funding and reserve requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/635

2023-24 Changes in Proposition 98 Spending [EdBudget]

Jan 17, 2023 - 2023-24 Changes in Proposition 98 Spending [EdBudget] a Applies to special education, child nutrition, and Child and Adult Care Food Program. b Consists of $1.2 billion in 2021-22 funding and $199 million in reappropriated funds. c Reflects additional LCFF costs associated with serving more students in transitional kindergarten, including costs of lower transitional kindergarten staffing ratios.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/698