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

May 5, 2025 - …However, Multiple Additional Stormwater-Related Test Claims Pending at the Commission. Each test claim submitted to CSM is different and has to be considered individually. However, if CSM was to determine that each of the currently pending stormwater-related test claims constituted state-reimbursable mandates for costs incurred before 2018, the state could face greater costs to reimburse local governments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

May 30, 2025 - This includes 32 pending test claims and 4 additional claims for which CSM has already identified state-reimbursable mandated activities but has not yet developed cost estimates. Each test claim submitted to CSM is different and has to be considered individually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

Overview of New Updates to the Cap-and-Invest Program

Dec 9, 2025 - The Legislature can use oversight hearings to provide a venue to follow up on areas of concern identified by the Climate Bureau or CARB ’s reporting, gather key information, monitor the state ’s progress towards meeting legislative goals, identify lessons learned, and determine whether additional legislative intervention might be merited.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5097

The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - Multiple Additional Stormwater ‑Related Test Claims Pending at the Commission. While not directly linked to this mandate, the commission has 37 pending test claims related to other stormwater permits issued by the state water boards dating back to 2009.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions [Publication Details]

Oct 16, 2025 - This post discusses features of the state's spending plan that were not covered elsewhere in the 2025-26 Spending Plan series.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5081

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This post discusses features of the state's spending plan that were not covered elsewhere in the 2025-26 Spending Plan series.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2023-24 Budget: Proposed Energy Policy Changes

Mar 10, 2023 - The Legislature will want to consider the most appropriate venue for discussing and deliberating these proposed changes. For example, the Legislature could consider these proposals through the policy process, rather than as part of the budget process .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4735

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

Jan 10, 2021 - This would allow time for schools to ramp up testing capabilities an d address other implementation issues with a smaller group of students and staff. Alternatively, the Legislature could direct resources to expanding statewide testing capacity and infrastructure that would allow schools to more easily access routine testing as a way to support school reopening.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

Assessing California's Climate Policies—The 2022 Scoping Plan Update

Jan 4, 2023 - As a result, the state will have very low and/or volatile GGRF re venue at these auctions —making it more difficult to fund the various programs that typically rely on GGRF funding, including programs intended to help the state meet its GHG reduction goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4656

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

Jan 13, 2022 - In late 2020 and early 2021, the federal government created two new grant programs, the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) and the Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF), to provide additional fiscal relief to businesses that were especially impacted by the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492