The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - As of October 10, 2025, the Department of Finance reported a cumulative total of $533.8  million (across 2024-25 and 2025-26) allocated through the control sections. (See text box titled, “Special Session Had Notable Budgetary Implications, ” in The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan for more information.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 19, 2026 - Below, we discuss “Disclosure Requirements and Deferral of Property Taxation, ” a newly identified mandate since enactment of the 2025-26 Budget Act . Background New Requirements for Los Angeles County.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5130

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

Feb 23, 2026 - Direct the administration to use its continuous appropriation authority to augment CDTFA ’s allocation from the Cannabis Tax Fund by the proposed amount, prorated to cover the remainder of 2025 ‑26. Direct the administration to make any future adjustments needed to support the program without spending any money from the General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5132

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

Feb 19, 2026 - In this post, we discuss “Disclosure Requirements and Deferral of Property Taxation,” a newly identified mandate since enactment of the 2025-26 Budget Act.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5130

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions [Publication Details]

Oct 16, 2025 - The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5081

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - In other words, we estimate the 10 th percentile hourly wage for white workers to be roughly 20  percent higher than the 10 th percentile hourly wage for Latino workers. This is slightly below an estimate by Blau et al. (2023) for the U.S. over the last 40 years and substantially higher than an estimate by Clemens et al. (2019) for the U.S. over the period from 2013 to 2016.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

The 2025-26 Budget: California’s Film Tax Credit

Feb 28, 2025 - Figure  5 shows the differing effects of these two events by comparing the total percent change in employment levels for California and the U.S. since 2019. The impact of COVID ‑19 was similar in California and the U.S. overall, and employment bounced back in both cases by the end of 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5000

Evaluation of a Tax Exemption for Zero-Emission Buses

Apr 15, 2024 - Second, the program received $4  billion —$2  billion in 2023-24 and $1  billion planned for both 2024-25 and 2025- 26 —to provide on a formula basis to local agencies for capital and/or operational expenses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4890

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - As Figure  10 shows with some illustrative numbers, this employment tax raises the cost of adding a new employee to a business and that cost is proportionately higher for a low wage worker than a high wage worker.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

The 2025-26 Budget: California’s Film Tax Credit [Publication Details]

Feb 28, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: California’s Film Tax Credit [Publication Details] Description: This brief discusses California's film tax credit and assesses the Governor’s Budget proposal to raise the amount of tax credits available for the California Film Commission to allocate to $750 million starting in 2025‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5000