The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - Second, any unawarded credits from the previous fiscal year can be added to the pool of available credits for the current fiscal year. Credit Pool Has Ballooned to over $923  million for the Current Year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - What steps has the administration taken to improve recruitment and retention of tobacco enforcement personnel? What additional steps could be taken? What will happen if CDTFA cannot expand its tobacco enforcement workforce despite its growing responsibilities?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

The 2026-27 Budget: State Mandate—Disclosure Requirements and Deferral of Property Taxation

Feb 19, 2026 - The Commission determined that Los Angeles County incurred reimbursable costs processing deferment requests and adding the required disclosure to property tax bills. The Commission determined that the county incurred a total amount of about $30,000 in back-year costs (incurred between 2022 and 2024), and about $8,000 in ongoing costs thereafter.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5130

The 2026-27 Budget: CDTFA’s Cannabis and Tobacco Programs

Feb 23, 2026 - As far as we know, Proposition  64 and the Legislature ’s budget actions have not conveyed any intent to use the General Fund to support the Cannabis Tax Program. In contrast, as noted above, Proposition  64 authorizes continuous appropriations from the Cannabis Tax Fund to pay for the Cannabis Tax Program, requiring no action by the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5132

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - In both cases, (1)  the assumed level of savings is lower than what was assumed as part of the 2024-25 budget package and (2) savings that were assumed unallocated in 2024-25 are assumed to be distributed to departments in 2025-26 Control Section 4.05: Reduced Operational Costs Distributed to Departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - Since these agreements were finalized in 2022 and 2023, and grant milestones are spread out among the five subsequent years, it is still unknown at this point what fraction will ultimately be claimed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - Continue work to rebalance notification procedures so workers have sufficient time to respond to EDD requests, understand why EDD ’s decision was made, and know what to do if they disagree. Introduction California ’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) program provides temporary wage replacement to unemployed workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615

The 2022-23 Budget: Fuel Price and Other Fiscal Relief Options

May 12, 2022 - While we will know more about the state ’s SAL requirements in the coming weeks, they are likely to be in the tens of billions of dollars. (For more information about the SAL, see our report The State Appropriations Limit .)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4597

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - What We Know About Earnings Nonresponse 30 Years After Lillard, Smith, and Welch. ” Journal of Political Economy 127(51). Dutz, Denis, Ingrid Huitfeldt, Santiago Lacouture, Magne Mogstad, Alexander Torgovitsky, and Winnie van Dijk (2022).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

Evaluating State Economic Stimulus Proposals

Feb 1, 2021 - New state spending may ( 1)  d irectly increase state employment; ( 2)  i ncrease state purchases of goods and services from the private sector; and/or ( 3)  i ncrease private ‑sector employment, spending, and investment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4331