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

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Below, we highlight some of the most significant crosscutting state ‑level efforts and funding. Significant Funding in 2021‑22 Budget Package . As summarized in Figure 7, the 2021‑22 budget package included $9.3 billion over three years—primarily from the General Fund—for a variety of activities to respond to climate impacts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Sep 23, 2021 - This post provides a high-level overview of the state ’s major labor and employment programs and highlights the key labor issues in the budget package, including provisions related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4452

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - We also highlight a couple of examples where Governors have used these authorities in ways that were potentially inconsistent with legislative priorities and/or with very little legislative input and oversight.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Proposals

Feb 20, 2022 - The proposal also highlights the need for a strategic plan in other ways. Because OES did not have a strategic plan that included an assessment of how its response capacity is distributed throughout the state, it had not identified a critical gap in geographic coverage near the international border in the San Diego region.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4551

The 2023-24 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Mar 20, 2023 - The status of each of these programs and projects also highlights important upcoming deadlines, such as the federal ARP fiscal relief fund deadline to enter contracts by December 31, 2024 and spend funds by  December 31, 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4747