The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - Some research provides fairly good evidence that California Competes encourages recipients to make new investments in California. We suspect that this efficacy is related to several features of the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

The 2021-22 Budget: State Board of Equalization

Feb 23, 2021 - We suggest that the Legislature consider the advantages and disadvantages of having CDTFA play this role as compared to other options, such as the Department of General Services. Subscribe | California State Legislature | Online Voter Registration | Privacy Policy | Accessibility Legislative Analyst's Office | The California Legislature's Nonpartisan Fiscal and Policy Advisor 925 L Street, Suite 1000 Sacramento, CA 95814 | (916) 445-4656
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4385

State Assistance to Businesses in Response to COVID-19

Jan 4, 2024 - In our interviews with business groups, we observed that there seemed to be a very limited awareness of state programs, even among some regional Chambers of Commerce, which played a key role in disseminating information to businesses about government assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4824

The 2021-22 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Spending Authorities

Mar 2, 2021 - This proposal represents a significant expansion of already fairly broad authority and represents an overreach of administrative authority. If the Legislature rejects the Governor ’s proposal, the administration would instead need to allocate these funds through Control Section 28, as is the state ’s typical practice.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4393

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - Counties play a major role in the funding and delivery of public behavioral health services. In particular, counties generally are responsible for arranging and paying for community behavioral health services for low-income individuals with the highest service needs through Medi-Cal, the state ’s Medicaid program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - While cyber insurance providers are not a formal part of the state ’s IS governance structure, it appears that, at least for some nonreporting entities, cyber insurance providers play a key role in their decisions to engage in certain IS compliance  activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - One key question will be what role state programs and policies can and should play in adapting to climate change, including how they interact with local adaptation activities, and how they should be funded.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2023-24 Budget: Governor’s Proposals for the Department of General Services

Mar 1, 2023 - This approach would more fairly apportion building costs across various funds and also create better incentives for DGS to be a good steward of its buildings. Adopt Provisional Language to Limit Use of Funding to Specific Projects .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4724

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - For example, the Legislature will want to consider whether t he proposal fairly assigns costs to payers that should bear the fiscal burden, as well as whether the charges can be adjusted in future years to address inflation or other cost increases in order to avoid future structural deficits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - Whereas we often noted previously that the administration ’s multiyear revenue estimates appear to be fairly cautious, we would characterize this year ’s estimates as a middle of the road among potential outcomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492