The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Housing stabilization and relocation efforts also include outreach and engagement, landlord recruitment, case management, housing search and placement, legal se rvices, and credit repair. Bringing Families Home Program (BFH).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/7

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852

Immunology and immunotherapy. [Ballot]

Dec 17, 2025 - Applied and clinical research, which is mostly conducted by industry, u se that knowledge to develop and test treatments for specific medical conditions . The R &D process then continues through regulatory review and, finally, implementation —when new treatments reach patients.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-026

Gender-affirming medical procedures for individuals under the age of 18 years. [Ballot]

Oct 17, 2023 - Depending on the decisions in the se court cases and any resulting federal actions, California providers could face a number of potential consequences, including revoked federal funding. Such actions also could place pressure on state and local governments to backfill lost federal funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-020

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Proposals

Mar 19, 2026 - These risks likely would apply to GO-SE RVE ’s operations as well, since that office also relies on LCI ’s IT infrastructure. Because the Legislature already signed off on LCI ’s plans to establish its own IT office, providing additional funding to complete that transition and ensure the systems are safe and secure would be consistent with previous legislative decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - After the dot-com bust and the Great Recession, it took four and five years, respectively, for revenues to recover. Incorporating revenue risk into the budget now, therefore, reflects prudence, not pessimism.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

Voting in California. [Ballot]

Sep 4, 2025 - Depending on specific requirements established by subsequent legislation to implement the measure, this could be a substantial increa se in county elections costs. Government Data. Subsequent legislation likely would be needed to clarify what types of government data state and county elections officials could use to verify voters ’ citizenship status.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-007

The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library

Mar 7, 2025 - The proposed trailer bill language retroactively reestablishes the special fund as of January 1, 2025, so there would be no lap se in deposits. (The state has continued to collect civil appellate filing fees.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5013

The 2022-23 Budget: Initial Comments on the State Appropriations Limit Proposal

Feb 4, 2022 - One advantage of this approach is that lowering tax revenues reduces some constitutionally required spending (described above) that otherwi se would be required in addition to meeting the SAL ’s requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4515