The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - Research Evidence Credit Design Has Favorable Components. California Competes has a few structural components that strengthen its effectiveness as an economic development tool. First, awards are allocated through a competitive application process rather than granted automatically based solely on eligibility.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget package allocates funds authorized by Proposition  4, which provided $10  billion in bond funds for activities designed to increase the state ’s resilience to the impacts of climate change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

Local Sales Tax Rebates in 2023-24

Sep 16, 2025 - Bradley-Burns revenue generally goes to the location a retailer designates as the “place of sale, ” which can differ from where the product is actually delivered to the customer, such as often occurs with online purchases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5074

The 2025-26 Budget: Update on Implementation of New Firearm and Ammunition Tax

Feb 19, 2025 - For example, Chapter  231 specifies that the first $75  million deposited in the GVPSS Fund be designated for the California Violence Intervention and Prevention (CalVIP) Grant Program —which provides competitive grants for violence prevention activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

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

Mar 18, 2025 - Natcast plans to ramp up the facility ’s design and prototyping work over time, once it renovates the facility to enable those types of activities. Governor ’s Proposal $25  Million for Semiconductor Design Facility.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

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

May 12, 2022 - How Can the Relief Package Be Designed to Help Meet the State ’s SAL Requirements? Given the constraints in this year ’s budget, the Legislature will want to design a relief package that focuses on meeting the state ’s requirements under the SAL, with at least a roughly equivalent amount of excluded spending as that proposed by the Governor —around $9  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4597

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - The federal surcharge is designed to temporarily increase employer contributions to repay the federal loan, and it drops to zero once the trust fund balance reaches zero (meaning the loan has been repaid).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - Program ’s Basic Design Encourages EDD to Focus on Fraud and Containing Costs. Three key features of the program ’s basic design have encouraged the state to adopt policies that make getting benefits difficult.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - This is purely an artifact of the survey design, so it should have no direct relationship to the household ’s actual wages. On average, respondents in the eighth rotation group are more likely to respond to the wage questions than respondents in the fourth rotation group.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

Evaluating State Economic Stimulus Proposals

Feb 1, 2021 - Similarly, the planning, permitting, and completio n of the final design of new construction projects can take several years, even if preliminary designs were previously completed. Assessing the timing of new stimulus spending may be possible by examining similar investments made in the past.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4331