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

Feb 24, 2025 - While CARB secured a waiver for the ZEAS regulation in 2023, it has not done so for its ZEF and ACF regulations. Accordingly, while CARB can enforce the ZEAS regulation and certain portions of the ACF regulation, it does not have authority to enforce most of the ACF regulation or any of the ZEF regulation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4980

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Notification Practices are designed to ensure that the state alerts DVBEs when they have been named as part of a bid. This helps the state catch vendors who might be misleading state procurement officials into thinking a DVBE subcontractor is involved in the bid when the DVBE is unaware they have been named.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - Namely, those tax credits could have been awarded to another applicant who would have been more likely to achieve their milestones. However, as we discuss next, this has not been the case in the last few years of the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - For example, expenditures for the home-based family care rate —namely the monthly care and supervision payments made to foster caregivers and for kinship and adoptive placements —are budgeted to increase by around $20  million General Fund ($33  million total funds) in 2025-26 (9  percent increase relative to 2024-25), due largely to the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/6

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - Moreover, the scoring system uses several relevant m etrics to rank other projects (namely facility age and condition for modernization projects and enrollment and capacity for growth projects). Share of Funding Allocated Toward Modernization Projects Is Likely Too Low.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

Parental or legal guardian notification if student requests gender-related accommodations. [Ballot]

Oct 17, 2023 - The measure requires official student records to include other names —in addition to the student ’s legal name —and the gender that would be used to refer to the student by school staff and employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-018

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - According to HCAI, the partnership will produce three generic insulin products, with insulin glargine (also known by the brand name Lantus) most likely to be launched first. HCAI Anticipates Substantial Commercial Savings From Generic Product.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - We advise the Legislature to address the budget problem through a combination of ongoing solutions —namely , achievable spending reductions and/or revenue increases. There are three reasons these actions are now critical.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

Local taxes. [Ballot]

Aug 14, 2025 - This type of tax is not named in statute so we refer to it as the “charter city-only transfer tax. ” Pursuant to state law, if a charter city chooses to adopt its own transfer tax, the county retains all the revenue from the documentary transfer tax (that is, the entire 55 cents per $500).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-006

The 2025-26 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor's May Revision

May 17, 2025 - Overall, our assessm ent of the state’s budget condition for 2025‑26 is very similar to that of the administration’s assessment—namely, since January, when the budget was roughly balanced, a budget problem has emerged.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5044