The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - In contrast, it could make sense for state entities that already play a role in oversight of CDCR —such as the Office of the Inspector General or the California State Auditor —to monitor implementation of or adherence to new policies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - Defensible Space Plays Important Role in Reducing Home Ignitability. Researchers generally agree that it is important for homeowners to maintain an area free of excess or dead vegetation around their homes, known as defensible space.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457

Property tax rules for inherited property. [Ballot]

Oct 22, 2025 - The special rules for vacation homes and business properties only app lied to the first $1  million of combined property value. Proposition  19 narrowed these special rules. The rules now only apply to two types of properties: (1)  homes that a child or grandchild uses as a primary residence and (2)  farms.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-017

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - A large portion of the General Fund support is used to support the Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS) enforcement teams, which seize firearms from people prohibited from owning or possessing them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

California gaming activities. [Ballot]

Oct 1, 2021 - The California Lottery currently oversees the sale of various lottery games at about 23,000 retail stores across the state. The California Lottery is regulated by the Lottery Commission. Cardrooms. Currently, 86 cardrooms in 32 counties operate certain card games (such as poker and pai-gow) in a manner that is generally understood to make them non-banked and non-percentage games.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-009

Gaming. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2023 - The California Lottery currently oversees the sale of various lottery games at about 23,000 retail stores across the state. The California Lottery is regulated by the Lottery Comm ission. Cardrooms. Currently, 82 cardrooms in 32 counties operate certain card games (such as poker and pai-gow).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-030

Tribal gaming. [Ballot]

Dec 27, 2021 - The California Lottery currently oversees the sale of various lottery games at about 23,000 retail stores across the state. The California Lottery is regulated by the Lottery Comm ission. Cardrooms. Currently, 86 cardrooms in 32 counties operate certain card games (such as poker and pai-gow).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-039

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - What role do state policy decisions about eligibility processes play in affecting the complexity of operations and increasing or reducing the error rate in each program? Are there changes in state policy the state could consider that would reduce errors?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Public Safety Package

Feb 17, 2022 - For example, several studies have found that spreading nutritional benefit disbursements throughout the month as opposed to concentrating them at the beginning of the month (as is currently done for CalFresh) reduced thefts from grocery stores and violent crime in some cases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4546

The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 16, 2024 - The California Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot provides CalFresh recipients in pilot counties with a dolla r-for-dollar benefit match when they purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at select farmers ’ markets and grocery stores.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4845