The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This amount includes $10  million for Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup security costs, $10  million for Family Justice Centers, and $8  million to the City of Los Angeles for fire engine purchases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 15, 2022 - Short ‑Term vs. Long ‑Term Strategies. The  current supply chain disruptions are the result of both short ‑term issues, such as greater consumer demand, as well as long ‑term issues, such as the capacity and resilience of the goods movement system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

Evaluation of a Tax Exemption for Zero-Emission Buses

Apr 15, 2024 - Innovative Clean Transit (ICT) Regulation Conventional Buses vs. ZEBs. The ZEB exemption, the ICT regulation, and various other policies make a distinction between conventional buses and ZEBs. Conventional buses burn diesel, compressed natural gas, or other fuels that emit greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other air pollutants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4890

Evaluating State Economic Stimulus Proposals

Feb 1, 2021 - Importantly, assessing these models ’ reliability can be difficult because there often are major practical barriers to checking the assumptions and predictions against real ‑world outcomes. For example, differentiating a particular policy ’s effect on employment from the variety of other complex factors that drive employment changes is very difficult.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4331

The 2021-22 Budget: Business Tax Incentives

Jan 28, 2021 - Consequently, the Governor ’s proposal anticipates General Fund payments to 2011 Realignment totaling $7. 5  m illion. $24.7   Million Revenue Loss for Local Programs. Aside from 2011 Realignment, the administration ’s estimates suggest that the proposal would reduce local sales tax revenues by $24. 7  m illion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4327

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - From 2011 through 2018, California businesses paid the federal surcharge to repay the loan principal while the General Fund made a total of $1.4  billion in interest payments. After Great Recession, Tax Rates Declined, Worsening an Already Poor Position.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - (Workers were listing date, month, year as is customary in many parts of the world.) EDD sent these applications to manual review. In response, the department improved its online application to reduce confusion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615

The 2023-24 Budget: California's Film Tax Credit

Feb 28, 2023 - Figure  4 shows film tax credit claims from 2011 to 2021. To date, taxpayers have used $571  million of credits from the first program to reduce their corporation tax payments. Much of the remaining credits have been claimed against sale taxes. $1.55   Billion Allocated Under Program 2.0.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4713

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development Proposals

Feb 11, 2022 - GO ‑Biz was established statutorily in 2011 to be the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4529