Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Significant Funding in 2021‑22 Budget Package . As summarized in Figure 7, the 2021‑22 budget package included $9.3 billion over three years—primarily from the General Fund—for a variety of activities to respond to climate impacts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - While the agreement would reduce annual state costs through 2026-27, it would lead to higher annual costs beginning in 2027-28. Moreover, as we discuss in greater detail below, the agreement would lead to growth in unfunded liabilities, potentially contributing to future budget problems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

Jul 14, 2025 - While the agreement would reduce state costs in 2025-26, it would lead to higher annual costs beginning in 2026-27. Moreover, as we discuss in greater detail below, the agreement would lead to growth in unfunded liabilities, potentially contributing to future budget problems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Workers and Employers

Apr 5, 2022 - Roughly $600  million of these costs are anticipated to be reimbursed by the federal government. 2021‑22 Budget Included $600 Million in Regional Grants for Economic Resilience. The 2021‑22 budget included $600 million in one‑time federal American Recovery Plan Act funds for regional partnerships to plan for and implement economic transition strategies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4587

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - We raised concerns in 2019 that CalHR withheld (and continues to withhold) a compensation study it completed in 2018 (see our June 2019 analysis ) and proceeded to not produce compensation studies in 2019, 2020, or 2021 despite new agreements being submitted to the Legislature in those years (see our June 2021 analysis ).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 12 (Craft and Maintenance)

Jun 27, 2025 - While the agreement would reduce state costs in the short term, it would lead to higher costs in the future. Moreover, as we discuss in greater detail below, the agreement would lead to growth in unfunded liabilities, potentially contributing to future budget problems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

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

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

Jun 25, 2021 - …And Did Not Conduct a 2019, 2020, or 2021 Compensation Study Before Submitting Agreements to Legislature. At the end of the language quoted above, the 2018 MOU added a sentence: “This section will be inoperable during the term of this MOU.”
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4446

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

The 2023-24 Budget: Total Compensation Studies

May 24, 2023 - As we noted in our 2021 analysis, a regular and consistent schedule for the release of compensation studies allows the Legislature, administration, unions, and public much more consistent information about state employee compensation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4773