The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Includes About $930  Million Within CDSS Budget for SUN Bucks in 2025-26. Budgeted SUN Bucks spending (within the CDSS budget) increases by about $83  million ($16  million General Fund) in 2025-26 compared to 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/3

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - SUN Bucks and CalFood Are Programs With Largest Year-Over-Year Changes . Funding for the SUN Bucks program —formerly called the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) program —increased by about $896  million year over year ($59  million General Fund) relative to 2023-24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/3

Local Sales Tax Rebates in 2023-24

Sep 16, 2025 - For example, to encourage a retailer to set up shop in a city, the city could refund half of the Bradley-Burns tax paid by the retailer. If retailers respond strongly to these rebates, then cities providing them could end up with higher revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5074

Local Sales Tax Rebates in 2023-24 [Publication Details]

Sep 16, 2025 - Some of California's local governments offer partial sales tax rebates to try to boost the amount of taxable sales within their borders. In 2023-24, these rebates totaled $140 million. In this post, we describe the distribution of rebate payments across cities and counties. We also examine some economic and demographic characteristics of rebate-paying jurisdictions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5074

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - SUN Bucks benefits are excluded from this figure and are included in Figure 3. b CFAP benefits are 100 percent General Fund. The Governor ’s Budget estimates an average monthly benefit of $372 per household.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - After the dot-com bust and the Great Recession, it took four and five years, respectively, for revenues to recover. Incorporating revenue risk into the budget now, therefore, reflects prudence, not pessimism.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Transportation

Apr 5, 2022 - As such, in areas where prolonged and extreme heatwaves are becoming more common, shifting to paving material that better reflects the sun may prolong the longevity of the roadways. In other regions where flooding and mudslides are becoming more frequent, roads likely will require more permeable materials.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4576

Oversight of certain public benefit artificial intelligence (AI) companies. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - The measure would have the following major fiscal effects: Increased state costs that would likely be in the tens of millions of dollars annually to establish and operate a new regulatory commission overseeing certain public benefit AI com panies.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-033