The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - Changes made to the program in 2018 likely explain much of this trend. Specifically, the 2018 budget package: Removed a requirement that 25  percent of credits be reserved for businesses with less than $2  million in annual revenue.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

The 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System

Feb 27, 2026 - How Do the Options Compare? How do different options compare on parameters such as cost, effectiveness of addressing the problems encountered to date, and length of time to decommissioning of the legacy 911 system?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - In 2018, the state established Learning Lab. The purpose of Learning Lab is to improve learning outcomes and help close equity gaps, particularly in STEM, at California ’s public higher education segments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - The other pathway —more traditionally regulatory —would apply to water users that do not choose to be part of the VA program. Key features of the two pathways include: VA Pathway Includes Flows and Habitat Projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2025-26 Budget: California Military Department—STARBASE Classroom Building

Feb 20, 2025 - Project First Approved by Legislature in 2018-19 . The 2018-19 budget provided $1.7  million General Fund for all phases of a project to construct a new classroom building for STARBASE Los Alamitos. The project was expected to be completed in April 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4976

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

May 5, 2025 - Maintains Mandate From January 1, 2018 Forward. Because the Governor ’s proposed suspension would only concern the historic time period in question, the permit requirements would remain in effect as of January 1, 2018 and until the regional board adopts a new permit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - In 2023 ‑24, 369 unique DVBEs were doing business as a prime contractor, and 220 were doing business as subcontractors, with state entities that use FI$Cal. However, the actual number of unique DVBEs with active state contracts may be higher because some departments that make significant use of DVBEs —such as the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

Net Taxpayer Outmigration Increased During 2017-2019 [EconTax Blog]

Jul 6, 2021 - That said, a limitation of the IRS data is that they do not cover people who do not file federal income tax returns. Nonfilers —who typically have lower incomes —likely account for roughly 20 percent of the population, as the state population in 2018 was around 39.5 million and 31.7 million personal and dependent exemptions were claimed on income tax returns.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/675

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - As part of the 2018-19 Budget Act , the Legislature set a goal to increase CalWORKs grants to 50  percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) for a family that is one person larger than the number of people in the family for which the grant amount is calculated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

Limiting pay for administrators at hospitals and physician groups. [Ballot]

Sep 22, 2025 - That said, some hospital executives earn in the low hundreds of thousands of do llars, while others earn millions of dollars. Proposal Limits Pay for Administrators at Hospitals and Physician Groups.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-009