Insurance regulation. [Ballot]

Nov 10, 2025 - The Insurance Commissioner would decide what home-hardening standards would need to be me t. An insurer could ask the Insurance Commissioner to waive this requirement if the insurer already covers a lot of homes in places with high wildfire risk.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-020

The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - (In 2024 ‑25, the $138  million ongoing decrease is offset by a $78  million one-time increase.) Figure 3 Comparing the Governor ’s Budget and LAO Recommendation Proposition 98 (In Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894

Involuntary Servitude [Ballot]

Jun 9, 2021 - As such, the fiscal effects of the me asure on state and local governments are uncertain. If the measure is interpreted to allow all forms of work currently performed by people in the criminal justice system, it would have no direct fiscal effect on state or local gover nments.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-003

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - To address this possibility, we estimate the age distribution again, this ti me only for workers who have lived in the U.S. for at least one decade. Figure  2 displays the results. These estimates are very similar to the numbers in Figure  1, indicating that recent immigration does not explain those age patterns.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/2

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Nov 14, 2025 - For 2024-25, the budget package provides an additional $78  million from the previously enacted level that year —bringing MCS spending up to $1  billion General Fund ($636  million ongoing and $368  million one time).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5089

Attorney compensation in certain civil lawsuits. [Ballot]

Nov 29, 2021 - State law places limits on contingency fee agreements in a few civil cases, such as prohibiting them in family law cases and imposing limits on the contingency fee percentage in me dical malpractice cases.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-031

The rights of individuals to make “fully free and informed” health decisions. [Ballot]

Nov 18, 2021 - For example, the rights granted to people under this me asure would prevent other individuals and entities from requiring a person to make a particular health decision or treating a person differently based on their health decisions, in cluding whether to have any medical procedure done or to wear a device that restricts the person ’s breathing or senses (potentially including face masks or gloves).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-025

The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 16, 2024 - In 2022 ‑23, CFAP benefits were $78  million General Fund ($159 average monthly benefit per person, not including temporary emergency allotments granted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which averaged $84 per person and were provided from March  2020 to February 2023).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4845

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

Feb 15, 2022 - The continued decline in new PUA claims after the state instituted ID. me —as shown in Figure  2 above —suggests that ID.me may have further reduced the viability of fraudulent claims. …But Took Other Actions Inconsistent With Strike Team Call to Reassess Stance on Fraud.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - CSU has also already set systemwide retention rate targets for the 2027 fall cohort: 88  percent first ‑year retention rate (a  4 ‑percentage ‑point increase), 81  percent second ‑year rate (a 9 ‑percentage ‑point increase), and 78  percent third ‑year rate (an 8 ‑percentage ‑point increase).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099