The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This amount includes $10  million for Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup security costs, $10  million for Family Justice Centers, and $8  million to the City of Los Angeles for fire engine purchases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2026-27 Budget: CDTFA’s Cannabis and Tobacco Programs

Feb 23, 2026 - For example, when Proposition  64 (2016) established the excise tax on cannabis, it followed this standard model by authorizing continuous appropriations for the Cannabis Tax Program from the Cannabis Tax Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5132

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Over the last decade, two statutes —Chapter  351 of 2013 (AB  10, Alejo) and Chapter  4 of 2016 (SB  3, Leno) —gradually have increased California ’s statewide minimum wage from $8 per hour to $16 per hour.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878

The 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - For example, several proposals would establish new programs that might require additional feedback from stakeholders to determine key de tails, such as program guidelines and allocation criteria. Before the Legislature takes any action on these proposals, it will be important to require the administration to provide additional information to ensure the requested funding will be implemented according to its priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

The 2023-24 Budget: California's Film Tax Credit

Feb 28, 2023 - “The Effects of School Spending on Educational and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from School Finance Reforms. ” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 131.1 (2016): 157 ‑218. O ’Brien, Nina F., and Christianne J.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4713

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - This is slightly below an estimate by Blau et al. (2023) for the U.S. over the last 40 years and substantially higher than an estimate by Clemens et al. (2019) for the U.S. over the period from 2013 to 2016.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

Evaluating State Economic Stimulus Proposals

Feb 1, 2021 - We evaluated the economic effects of an income tax credit for motion picture production in 2016 at the request of the legislature. In this report, we estimated that about one ‑third of the film and television projects that received a tax credit under this program would probably have been made in California anyway.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4331