The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals

Mar 20, 2024 - Under Section 20683.2 of the Government Code pertaining to CalPERS, any savings that otherwise would have been realized by the state employer as a result of employees contributing more towards their pensions is, instead, directed towards paying down the unfunded liabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4887

The Definition of Qualified Capital Outlay for the State Appropriations Limit

Feb 18, 2022 - As such, Government Code Section 7914 defines qualified capital outlay as: “an appropriation for a fixed asset (including land and construction) with a useful life of 10 or more years and a value which equals or exceeds one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). ” Because this statute is fairly broad, often there are questions about how it should be interpreted in certain cases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4547

The 2023-24 Budget: Considering Inflation's Effects on State Programs

Nov 16, 2022 - Government Code allows the State Public Works Board to augment the costs of major capital outlay projects by up to 20 percent with legislative notification. Larger augmentations require legislative approval.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4647

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: The State Appropriations Limit

Sep 30, 2022 - This year ’s budget built on these changes to expand the definition of subvention also to include a variety of other specific streams of funds, as listed in Government Code 7903. Under Chapter  48 of 2022 (SB  189, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review), subventions now include, for example, funds to counties for the administration of health and human services programs like
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4631

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - (To define capital outlay, due to the importance of the SAL in state budgeting this year, we use the more expansive definition found in Government Code 7914, rather than the traditional budgetary definition.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432