The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - We also find that suspending the mandates would not actually remove the past requirements, meaning that the local governments could not go back in time and cease required activities to avoid incurring costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - We note, however, that local governments cannot go back in time 15 years and cease required activities to avoid incurring costs. Based on Our Assessment, the Administration ’s Proposal Lacks a Strong Rationale.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government

Oct 22, 2025 - Provisional language exempts the department from having to go through the state ’s contracting process to obtain a vendor to run the initiative, but includes language stating legislative intent that any future funding for the program use a competitive-bid process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Going Forward Could Rental Debt Increase Going Forward? Despite our revised analysis and recently authorized federal funding for emergency rental assistance, the actual amount of accrued rental debt is unknown.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Going forward, the Legislature will want to monitor the implementation of Chapter  335. Should it become clear that there are not benefits of providing youths with legal counsel at this stage of the juvenile justice process —or that the benefits of doing so do not justify the costs —the Legislature could suspend the mandate at that time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2023-24 Budget: County of Los Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission Mandate

May 2, 2023 - Going forward, these costs typically will be incurred over three fiscal years every ten years. The commission estimates that the costs for the next redistricting cycle, following the 2030 U.S. Census, will grow for inflation and be incurred in 2029-30, 2030-31, and 2031-32.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 9, 2022 - In parallel with overseeing recent efforts, we suggest the Legislature consider the role of the state —in partnership with locals —in addressing homelessness going forward. Ultimately, assessing the performance of current programs and determining the nature of the state ‑local relationship going forward could inform the Legislature ’s budget decisions in 2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - The auction proceeds are a very volatile revenue source, which makes predicting the annual amount going to AHSC difficult. Modifications to GGRF Continuous Appropriation Could Provide AHSC Program More Funding Predictability.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535