Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program Benefits No Longer Aligned With Schedule Established by Legislature Significant Share of All Major Workplace Injuries File an SIBTF Claim.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - Control Section 3.90 of the 2025-26 budget (as added by Chapter 5 of 2025 [AB 102, Gabriel]) established an expectation of the Legislature that all 21 of the state’s bargaining units would meet and confer in good faith with the administration before July 1, 2025 to achieve savings assumed in the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

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

Jul 14, 2025 - The largest factors driving these cost increases have been (1)  the rapid growth in health premiums and (2)  the growing number of people receiving the benefit as more employees retire and people live longer in retirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

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

Feb 15, 2022 - (After the publication of this report, the IRS reinstated its use of ID.me, but with added safeguards.) New Anti ‑Fraud Proposals No Longer Needed and Run Counter to Strike Team Recommendations. Moving forward at this time with additional layers of fraud protection is not necessary because (1)  recent fraud was concentrated in temporary federal benefit programs
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - The largest factors driving these cost increases have been (1)  the rapid growth in health premiums and (2)  the growing number of people receiving the benefit as more employees retire and people live longer in retirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

The 2021-22 Budget: Labor Agreements Ending Personal Leave Program 2020

Jun 25, 2021 - The 2019 MOU retained the sentence at the bottom of the provision stating that Section 15.19 is inoperable; however, it also added at sentence at the top of the provision: “The parties agree that this section shall remain dormant for the term of this MOU and that no Total Compensation Report will be created for the successor MOU.”
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446

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

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - The largest factors driving these cost increases have been (1)  the rapid growth in health premiums and (2)  the growing number of people receiving the benefit as more employees retire and people live longer in retirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - Longer ‑Term Considerations In the Longer Term, Consider Addressing Risks to Funding Plan Permanently. While the recommendations above would help relieve some pressures on the funding plan in the short term, the underlying structural aspects of the funding plan that could impede its likelihood of success in the longer term would remain unchanged.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 8 (Firefighters)

Aug 19, 2025 - CAAP identified some specific behavioral changes that can occur when a DROP is offered that can affect the cost of the benefit including (1)  members might postpone retirement longer due to the financial advantages of DROP, (2)  the member might make the decision to enter DROP and the decision of their final retirement date to coincide with personal financial goals or market
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5066