The 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - For example, in 2021, applicants had to wait, on average, 36 days for a commercial drive test, compared to 22 days in 2019. However, the number of CDL applications actually decreased to 4,932 in 2020 ‑21 from 5,064 in 2018 ‑19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

Evaluation of a Tax Exemption for Zero-Emission Buses

Apr 15, 2024 - In this section, we briefly highlight some key sources of such funding. Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program (TIRCP). TIRCP is one of the main ongoing sources of funding available for ZEB adoption.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4890

Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - Traditional employees are workers who work for the same business day to day. Most workers in California fall under this category. As shown in On Figure 1 , the state’s UI program covered more than 80 percent (or 17.4 million) of California workers in 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615

The 2025-26 Budget: California’s Film Tax Credit

Feb 28, 2025 - The drop in California ’s production activity is displayed in Figure  4 , which shows the number of shoot days in the Los Angeles area by year and type of production. The COVID ‑19 effect was short ‑lived and shoot days returned to pre ‑pandemic levels in 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5000

The 2022-23 Budget: Fuel Price and Other Fiscal Relief Options

May 12, 2022 - Figure  1 illustrates these trends, displaying the percentage increase in prices for items in the Los  Angeles metro area from January 2017 through March  2022. While prices in general have increased, the price of motor fuels and electricity have grown even more significantly when compared to other items, as highlighted in the figure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4597

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - To the extent that tax avoidance could be a large part of the story, the size of the revenue loss highlights the importance of efforts to enforce tobacco tax laws. CDTFA ’s Enforcement Activities Spending on CDTFA ’s Tobacco Programs Has Declined.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

Overview of Diversity Efforts in the Film Tax Credit Program

May 1, 2025 - Within 60 days of concluding production activity, the applicant must submit a Final Assessment summarizing how the applicant has met or made a “good ‑faith attempt ” to meet the goals detailed in the workplan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5036

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - We assess the pseudo-out-of-sample prediction errors for each specification using the monthly CPS from January to December 2022 as our training set and the monthly CPS from January to December 2023 as our test set.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget includes provisional language authorizing the Department of Finance to augment State Emergency Telephone Number Account fund expenditure authority by amounts “necessary to continue implementation of the Next Generation 9-1-1 system, including transition from the legacy 9-1-1 system, ” subject to 30-day legislative notification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

Evaluating State Economic Stimulus Proposals

Feb 1, 2021 - New state spending may ( 1)  d irectly increase state employment; ( 2)  i ncrease state purchases of goods and services from the private sector; and/or ( 3)  i ncrease private ‑sector employment, spending, and investment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4331