The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - This fee-funded program is a key element of the Master Settlement Agreement that California and 45 other states reached with the four largest cigarette manufacturers in 1998. The California Electronic Cigarette Excise Tax Program administers a 12.5  percent tax on retail sales of e-cigarettes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - For example: On March  10, 2005, Governor Schwarzenegger terminated 17 emergencies dating back to December 1998. All but two had been proclaimed under previous administrations but had not been terminated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029