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

Sep 1, 2023 - Due to one-time costs associated with provisions of the agreement, 2025 ‑26 would be the highest cost year resulting from the agreement, increasing costs in that year by $152  million ($58  million from the General Fund).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4798

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - Reset Initial SIBTF Eligibility Threshold to 35   Percent Disability Rating. The Legislature could consider undoing the indirect effect of the 2012 reforms that increased all impairment ratings by 40  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - The administration ’s fiscal estimates indicate that about 235 rank-and-file employees and about 58 excluded employees receive this payment and that the provision would increase annual state costs by $699,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians)

Sep 7, 2023 - Specifically, in the case of total compensation, the study found that state Dentists are compensated 46  percent above market, Family Medicine Physicians are compensated 35  percent above market, and Psychiatrists are compensated 13  percent above market.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4801

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - A  2018   report  by the State Coastal Conservancy and The Nature Conservancy found that 55 percent of California’s existing coastal habitats are highly vulnerable to five feet of sea‑level rise, including 60 percent of the state’s iconic beaches and 58 percent of its marshes. 
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2022-23 Budget: State Payments on the Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan

Feb 15, 2022 - This review suggests about $100  million of $35  billion in state benefits paid during the pandemic were fraudulent. This estimate of likely fraud is much smaller than the $1.3  billion a separate EDD analysis flagged as possible fraud, but this $1.3  billion estimate likely is overstated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4543

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals

Mar 20, 2024 - The state represents about 30  percent of active employees in the system and 35  percent of retired CalPERS members. (Local government employees represent the rest of the membership.) Three Funding Sources.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4887

The 2022-23 Budget: Assessing Proposals to Address Unemployment Insurance Fraud

Feb 15, 2022 - Another estimate of likely fraud in the state ’s program (based on findings in the administration ’s strike team report) suggests that state UI fraud during the pandemic could be much smaller —just $100  million in fraud out of $35  billion in benefits paid.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

Unit 8 (Firefighters) MOU Analysis

Aug 26, 2022 - These three classifications account for about 35  percent of the full-time employees represented by Unit 8. Other Major Provisions Employer and Employee Contributions to Prefund Retiree Health Benefits Would Fluctuate With Changes in Normal Cost.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4621

Unit 2 (Attorneys) MOU Analysis

Aug 25, 2022 - Under the current MOU, CASE agrees to reimburse affected departments for the full amount of the salary plus an additional 35  percent of salary for an employee on paid union leave —a total of 135  percent of the employee ’s salary.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4619