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

Jul 14, 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/5064

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

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - As shown in Figure  6 , the 2024 ‑25 tax is expected to generate $850  million, nearly double the amount necessary to replenish the fund in the prior year. …But Increase Only Reflects Processed Claims, Understating Full Costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - (Additionally, the administration ’s proposal to allocate some required Proposition  2 debt payment funding to CalSTRS would prevent added UAO from accruing in 2021 ‑22 and is consistent with our past recommendation.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, low ‑income households have less money to purchase and operate air conditioning units during extreme heat events, air filters to moderate wildfire smoke, or back ‑up electricity generators to provide electricity during Public Safety Power Shutoff events.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 19 (Health and Social Services/Professional)

Sep 1, 2023 - While there currently is one authorized position in this classification, the administration’s fiscal estimates indicate that the administration proposes adding 10.5 additional positions in the classification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4797

The 2022-23 Budget: UC Climate-Related Proposals

Feb 16, 2022 - Funds generated from this program are deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which in turn generally supports many other mitigation and adaptation initiatives. State Also Is Undertaking Adaptation Activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4538

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

Feb 15, 2022 - These efforts added to the already high workload  at  EDD. Under Longstanding EDD Practices, Workers Must Pass Multiple Identity Tests. When an unemployed worker submits a claim for UI payments, EDD confirms the worker ’s identifying information with the federal Social Security Administration and the state Department of Motor Vehicles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

Repaying the State’s Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan

May 26, 2021 - The additional revenues generated from the tax increase go to paying down the state ’s federal loan. The federal UI tax rate continues to increase by increments of 0.3  percentage points each year until the loans are fully repaid, at which point the federal tax returns to its usual rate of 0.6  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4442

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals

Mar 20, 2024 - In addition to the $1  billion in savings for 2024 ‑25 associated with the CalSTRS payment, this would generate additional savings, likely of around $1.3  billion, in 2025 ‑26. That said, after the state emerges from this period of more acute budget problems, we would urge the Legislature return to its longstanding policy of maximizing long ‑term benefit associated with Proposition  2.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4887