The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - Suspending the Mandate Does Not Actually Remove the Past Requirement. Often when the state decides to suspend a mandate through the budget process, it will do so to avoid paying costs for one year on a prospective basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - We also find that suspending the mandates would not actually remove the past requirements, meaning that the local governments could not go back in time and cease required activities to avoid incurring costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Costs for cities and counties might include adding drainage to roads to manage more intense rain events, or modifying water treatment plants located along the coast to accommodate higher sea levels. …And Private Residents and Businesses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Additionally, state costs associated with removing debris —such as the remains of homes —from the 2020 fires are estimated at roughly $700  million. Furthermore, because the state helps fund affordable housing, to the degree construction costs are higher to protect against climate change impacts, this also would reduce the number of units the state could fund with a given amount of funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - We hope that by shedding light on how COVID ‑19 has added to the financial stress of renters, we can inform policy solutions to help renters through this crisis. In particular, the state and local governments will soon have to determine how to allocate recently authorized federal funding for emergency rental assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312