The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - State ’s Data System Suggests Number of People Experiencing Homelessness Is Even Higher. Since 2021, the state ’s California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH), an entity within the Business, Consumer Services and Housing (BCSH) Agency charged with coordinating the state ’s efforts to address homelessness, has maintained a Homeless Data Integration System (HDIS).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 9, 2022 - This program is established in recognition of a need to develop effective, scalable, and replicable strategies that meet the specific, complex needs of individuals living in encampments. The program received nearly 40  applications requesting $120  million in resources.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

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

May 5, 2025 - Chapter  536 of 2017 (SB  231, Hertzberg) explicitly defined sewer to include both sanitary and stormwater systems. It asserted that common use of the word sewer is not limited to sanitary systems and cited earlier statute that uses a more expansive definition of “sewer system ” which includes systems to dispose of sewage, industrial waste, and surface and stormwaters.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - The state likely also will incur costs from the need to expand its workforce in other areas to respond to climate change impacts —such as by hiring additional engineers and scientists to assess vulnerabilities, plan for adaptation strategies, and design and implement the state ’s responses to climate risks.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - This could result in youths experiencing negative legal outcomes, such as becoming more invo lved in the criminal or juvenile justice systems —or for longer periods of time —than they otherwise would.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

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

May 30, 2025 - For example, CSM determined that requirements to develop a particular monitoring plan, update various maps in Geographic Information System format, and assess and report on effectiveness of runoff programs in meeting certain objectives, to be state-reimbursable mandates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

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

Feb 14, 2022 - As  mobilehomes are installed on foundation systems and mobilehome owners convert to property taxes, the amount of funding available diminishes each year. The budget does not propose changes to this fee revenue sources.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Similarly, rural communities that are dependent on wells and less sophisticated water systems have experienced or are at greater risk of experiencing water shortages due to droughts. These communities tend to be home to large proportions of lower‑income households, due in part to historical housing discrimination practices that restricted which racial groups could live and purchase homes in the communities that contained larger and more developed water systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

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

Feb 28, 2022 - For  municipalities, the act directs the water boards —through the state ’s delegated federal authority —to design stormwater discharge permits that address their specific local conditions, and to “require controls to reduce the discharge of pollutants to the maximum extent practicable. ” To satisfy the federal Clean Water Act, local governments must comply with the specific permit requirements established by the water boards when operating their local storm sewer systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565