MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - Bargaining Unit 2 (Attorneys and Hearing Officers) is the exception and would be subject to PLP 2025 for only 16 months; however, Unit 2 would be subject to a larger pay offset than the other bargaining units during months of PLP 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Figure 1 Status of Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings Ratified by Chapter 25 of 2025 (SB 139, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) Unit 1 Administrative, Financial, and Staff Services Unit 2
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - Full Employer Costs Likely $2   Billion to $3   Billion Annually. Looking broadly at incoming claims each year, employers likely face lifetime SIBTF costs totaling $2  billion to $3  billion for each cohort of claims that injured workers submit each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 12 (Craft and Maintenance)

Jun 27, 2025 - Further, it creates a precedent for (1)  other bargaining units this year to adopt similar actions and (2)  future Governors to see this action as an acceptable trade-off to address future budget problems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Specifically, the top steps would increase 4.5  percent and the bottom steps would increase 2  percent. This would have the effect of a 4.5  percent pay increase for any employee at the top step of the salary range and a 2  percent pay increase for all other employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Further, it creates a precedent for (1)  other bargaining units this year to adopt similar actions and (2)  future Governors to see this action as an acceptable trade-off to address future budget problems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - As shown in Figure  2 , California ’s official individual and family (with children under age 18) poverty rates fluctuated over the last two decades. Official poverty rates are based on federal poverty levels (FPL), which are income thresholds under which a family is considered to be in poverty.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - Figure  2 shows these pre-pandemic funding trends, as well as funding trends during and after the pandemic (discussed later). Many Local Public Health Laboratories Had Closed in Years Prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

Retail Theft in California: Looking Back at a Decade of Change

Jun 12, 2025 - Taken together, these changes may have impacted retail theft rates by reducing (1) the likelihood people are apprehended for crime and (2) the number of peop le incarcerated at a given time who might otherwise commit crime.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

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

May 30, 2025 - The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local governments when (1)  new state laws or regulations mandate that they implement a new program or higher level of service and (2)  the local government does not have offsetting revenues —such as fees or federal funds —available to cover the associated costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054