The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This amount is similar to the amount provided in 2024-25 ($103  million). These funds support various OES victim grant programs and are intended to allow existing programs to maintain current service levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - During the phase ‑in period, the state also entered the dot ‑com recession. These two cost pressures absorbed the remaining flexibility in the state ’s UI tax system. As  shown in Figure  4 , the state began this period in Schedule C but quickly moved to Schedule F+, the highest tax schedule, where it has remained since.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

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

Feb 28, 2023 - Quasi ‑experimental evidence from the entertainment industry. ” State and Local Government Review 51.2 (2019): 92 ‑103. Workman, Alec. “Ready for a close ‑up: The effect of tax incentives on film production in California. ” Economic Development Quarterly 35.2 (2021): 125 ‑140.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4713