The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 9, 2024 - DOF notified the Legislature of its intent to authorize the full $400  million loan in January 2024. Governor ’s Proposal Additional Up to $100  Million Loan From LDF to General Fund. The Governor ’s 2024-25 budget proposes budget provisional language allowing DOF to authorize an additional, up to $100  million no-interest loan from the LDF to the General Fund subject to 30-day legislative notification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4831

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - The law requires state entities to set a goal of awarding at least 3 percent of their annual contract value to service‑disabled veteran‑owned businesses. This is commonly known as the “3 percent participation goal.”
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review [Publication Details]

Dec 2, 2025 - As required by Chapter 80 of 2020 (SB 588, Archuleta), this brief reviews California’s Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE) program. Specifically, it focuses on policies and practices designed to prevent program abuse and noncompliance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5095

2025 Update: Tech Company Stock Pay Accounts for One-Quarter of Withholding Growth So Far in 2025-26 [EconTax Blog]

Dec 3, 2025 - Including California ’s other large technology firms, the state ’s tech companies make up more than 60 percent of the total value of the Nasdaq 100 index, a list of the 100 most valuable companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/843

2025 Update: Tech Company Stock Pay Accounts for One-Quarter of Withholding Growth So Far in 2025-26 [EconTax Blog]

Dec 3, 2025 - Including California ’s other large technology firms, the state ’s tech companies make up more than 60 percent of the total value of the Nasdaq 100 index, a list of the 100 most valuable companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/843

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care

Feb 23, 2026 - At the time of this publication, the mental health Receiver had approved CDCR ’s request to close 100 excess inpatient beds and was deliberating on whether to deactivate additional excess inpatient beds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5134

Proposition 4 [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2024 - Fiscal Effects Increased State Costs of About $400  Million Annually for 40 Years to Repay the Bond. The estimated cost to repay the bond would be about $400  million annually over a 40-year period .
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=4&year=2024

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - As of fall 2024, districts employed about 66,100 full ‑time equivalent (FTE) employees systemwide —up about 400 FTE employees (0.6  percent) from fall 2019. Staffing has somewhat outpaced enrollment, which decreased by 0.3  percent during this period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The state funding is provided through Proposition 98 and non ‑Proposition 98 General Fund. c TEFAP is 100 percent federally funded. Emergency Food for Families funding is 100 percent state tax revenue collections.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/3

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - We apply this method to monthly CPS data from January 2022 through December 2023 to construct the estimates that appear in Figures 3 through 7 in the post Is California’s Minimum Wage High, Low, or Somewhere in Between?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4