Update: Tech Company Equity Pay Driving Withholding in 2024 [EconTax Blog]

Nov 20, 2024 - As shown in the figure, stock prices at California 's largest technology companies have increased substantially above their sky-high 2023 levels.   With Stock Price Run-Up, Equity Pay Now An Even Larger Contributor to Income Tax Withholding.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/815

Update: Tech Company Equity Pay Driving Withholding in 2024 [EconTax Blog]

Nov 20, 2024 - As shown in the figure, stock prices at California 's largest technology companies have increased substantially above their sky-high 2023 levels.   With Stock Price Run-Up, Equity Pay Now An Even Larger Contributor to Income Tax Withholding.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/815

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - Specifically, 53  percent of the growth in young adult pedestrian deaths has occurred under dark skies without street lighting. In contrast, crashes under these conditions account for just 20  percent of the growth in young adult motorist deaths.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

Living Under Smoky Skies—Understanding the Challenges Posed by Wildfire Smoke in California

Nov 14, 2022 - A 2007 study points out that before European settlement and the introduction of modern fire suppression, smoke likely filled the skies in California during much of the summer and fall. Significant uncertainty exists regarding the level of emissions generated by these fires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4644

The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare

May 24, 2024 - Passing only what is necessary this year would allow more time for the remaining stakeholder questions and policy issues to be worked out and give the Legislature the chance to assess whether the rates structure is in line with its vision for permanent CC R rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909

The 2026-27 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 23, 2026 - We recommend the Legislature require CDCR to provide it with key information to inform its deliberations about whether the $91  million for separating employee leave cashout payments will be needed in 2029 ‑30 and ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - At least 91 processing departments (and, for some processes, nearly all state departments) will need to onboard to CSPS, but there is currently no information about which processing departments will be included in each of the waves.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

A New Method For Current Year Revenue Forecasting [EconTax Blog]

Sep 20, 2021 - We then repeated this process for every year durin g the period 1990-91  through 2021-22. The results of this analysis are summarized in the graphic below.   Up-To-Date Data Improves Forecast Accuracy.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/696

The 2021-22 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Spending Authorities

Mar 2, 2021 - As discussed above, the Governor ’s budget proposes two new control sections —11 .92 and 11. 91 —that would provide the administration with significant flexibility in spending state, federal, and private funds on COVID ‑ 19 r esponse activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4393

The 2023-24 Budget: Governor’s Proposals for the Department of General Services

Mar 1, 2023 - D CC also issues provisional licenses to certain applicants if they have submitted a completed license application and were in the process of completing local permitting processes and CEQA requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4724