The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government

Oct 22, 2025 - Chapter  22 imposes a six-year suspension (through mid-2031) of new residential-building standards by both the state and local governments, with specified exceptions for standards pertaining to health and safety and certain other exceptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - State law further requires our office to analyze any new mandates identified by CSM as a part of our annual analysis of the state budget. In particular, state law directs our office to report on the annual state costs for new mandates and make recommendations to the Legislature as to whether the new mandate should be repealed (permanently
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - State law further requires our office to analyze any new mandates identified by the C ommission as a part of our annual analysis of the state budget. In particular, state law directs our office to report on the annual state costs for new mandates and make recommendations to the Legislature as to whether the new mandate should be repealed
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - State law tasks the Commission on State Mandates (Commission) with determining whether new state laws or regulations affecting local governments create state-reimbursable mandates. Typically, the process for determining whether a law or regulation is a state-reimbursable mandate takes several years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2023-24 Budget: County of Los Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission Mandate

May 2, 2023 - Pursuant to the law, the cost to support the redistricting process are incurred over three fiscal years because the commission is required to be created no later than December 31 in each year ending in the number zero and the redistricting commission is required to adopt new boundaries for supervisor districts before August 15 of the year following the year in which each decenn ial federal census is taken.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Program Currently Is in Its Fourth Year of Funding … Figure  2 shows that, after an initial General Fund appropriation of $50  million in 2021-22, the Legislature has provided one-time amounts for ERF each year since.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Climate Change Will Affect Where New Housing Should Be Built. In recent years, much of the new housing construction in the state has occurred in areas that are at significant risk of the effects of climate change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - Adaptive Reuse Governor ’s 2022 ‑23 Budget Proposal Establishes New, Temporary Adaptive Reuse Program. The budget proposes $50  million General Fund in 2022 ‑23, and $50  million in 2023 ‑24, for a new adaptive reuse incentive grant program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - In  particular, state law directs our office to report on the annual state costs for new mandates and make recommendations to the Legislature as to whether a new mandate should be repealed (permanently eliminating it or making it optional), suspended (rendering it inoperative for one year), modified, or  funded.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - In addition to episodic disruptions, some of the most affected industries and regions may need to make long ‑term adjustments to remain viable, forcing some workers to relocate, train to adopt new industry practices, or shift to new types of work.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575