The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - For example, CSU ’s Artificial Intelligence Educational Innovations Challenge ​ supports faculty-led projects that test new teaching methods that incorporate AI, including projects focused on STEM courses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

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

Mar 9, 2026 - AI Enthusiasm Boosting Income Tax Revenues, but for How Long?   Recent enthusiasm around Artificial Intelligence (AI) has pushed the stock market to record highs and boosted compensation for the state 's technology workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

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

Mar 9, 2026 - AI Enthusiasm Boosting Income Tax Revenues, but for How Long?   Recent enthusiasm around Artificial Intelligence (AI) has pushed the stock market to record highs and boosted compensation for the state 's technology workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852

Artificial intelligence and child safety. [Ballot]

Jan 27, 2026 - Proposal Establishes Child Safety Requirements for Certain AI Systems. The measure establishes new child safety requirements for providers of “covered AI systems, ” generally defined as consumer-facing, conversational AI systems (including companion-style chatbots), while excluding business-only and certain narrow-purpose AI tools.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-036

California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - And most of this increase has come from skyrocketing share prices among a handful of firms associated with innovations in Artificial Intelligence (AI). These firms have invested heavily in building out data centers and on extraordinary pay packages for their key employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

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

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

Jan 20, 2026 - Background AI and AI Companies. AI refers broadly to technologies that enable computer systems to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as generating content, identifying patterns, or mak ing predictions from data.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-034

Artificial intelligence (AI) and child safety. [Ballot]

Dec 12, 2025 - Creates a Children ’s AI Safety Fund. The measure establishes the Children ’s AI Safety Fund to support state oversight and implementation activities. All monetary penalties collected by DOJ and registration fees paid by AI developers would be deposited into the fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-025

2025 Update: Tech Company Stock Pay Accounts for One-Quarter of Withholding Growth So Far in 2025-26 [EconTax Blog]

Dec 3, 2025 - As the AI boom has supercharged California's tech landscape, including sending stock prices for these companies much higher, the market value of stock pay options (and thus the state income tax that must be withheld on those options) has grown commensurately. 
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/843

2025 Update: Tech Company Stock Pay Accounts for One-Quarter of Withholding Growth So Far in 2025-26 [EconTax Blog]

Dec 3, 2025 - As the AI boom has supercharged California's tech landscape, including sending stock prices for these companies much higher, the market value of stock pay options (and thus the state income tax that must be withheld on those options) has grown commensurately. 
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/843