MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - This creates a precedent for future Governors to see this action as an acceptable trade-off to address future budget problems. To the extent that this action is repeated in future years, the goal to fully fund the benefit will become increasingly elusive.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician)

Sep 9, 2025 - (The General Fund share of these costs are paid from the state ’s required annual debt payments under Proposition  2 [2014].) In addition, all but the agreement with Unit 6 (Corrections) also suspend the employee contribution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals

Mar 20, 2024 - By 2014, actuaries projected Ca lSTRS ’ assets would be depleted within a few decades. The Legislature passed Chapter  46 of 2014 (A B  1469 , Bonta), establishing a funding plan with the aim of reversing that projection and fully eliminating the Defined Benefit Program ’s unfunded liabilities by 2046.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4887

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Aug 14, 2024 - The disagreement resulted in CAPS union membership rejecting a 2014 tentative agreement negotiated with the Brown Administration after the Legislature had already ratified the agreement as part of the 2014-15 budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4918

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 12 (Craft and Maintenance)

Jun 27, 2025 - Further, it creates a precedent for (1)  other bargaining units this year to adopt similar actions and (2)  future Governors to see this action as an acceptable trade-off to address future budget problems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5060

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - The disagreement resulted in CAPS union membership rejecting a 2014 tentative agreement negotiated with the Brown Administration—something that is incredibly rare in the collective bargaining process—after the Legislature had already ratified the agreement as part of the 2014-15 budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - The administration proposes similar actions in 2021 ‑22. Past actions and proposed actions include: 2021 ‑22 Budget Proposes to Use Required Debt Payment Funding for CalSTRS. In 2019 ‑20 and 2020 ‑21, the state allocated part of its required debt payment funding (pursuant to Proposition  2 [2014]) to CalSTRS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - It is within the Legislature ’s prerogative to determine that such actions are necessary to address a budget problem. That being said, the Legislature must weigh such action against the damage that the action can bring to the state ’s relationship with its employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Further, it creates a precedent for (1)  other bargaining units this year to adopt similar actions and (2)  future Governors to see this action as an acceptable trade-off to address future budget problems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - Undoing deferrals and then taking the action again in the future results in more administrative complexity than other budgetary solutions like using reserves. For example, the 2009 ‑10 payroll deferral increased workload for the SCO when the state took the action to do and undo the deferral.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888