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

May 30, 2025 - Governor ’s Proposal Suspends Mandates for Time Period in Question, Does Not Reimburse Local Governments for Their Past Costs. The Governor ’s revised 2025-26 budget proposes to suspend the three mandates discussed above, which CSM determined were reimbursable by the state for the pre-2018 time periods noted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

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

May 5, 2025 - Depending on commission determinations, the Legislature will receive future proposals from the administration to suspend or modify mandates or to reimburse eligible costs for at least some of these claims, potentially including three as part of the May Revision.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Like the point-in-time count, these annual numbers from HDIS also are undercounts, primarily because the HDIS data do not include people experiencing homelessness who did not access any services (and thus did not get recorded in a CoC data system) —or accessed services from a provider who is not part of a CoC (such as veterans experiencing homelessness who received services exclusively from the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Although uncertainty remains about the timing and magnitude of when and how these hazards and their resulting impacts will manifest, the science is conclusive that they will be part of California ’s future.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Throughout 2020, mortgage delinquencies remained very low, in part because —as discussed earlier —job losses have been less severe in jobs typically held by homeowners and federal stimulus programs have stabilized household budgets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

An Initial Look at Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Local Government Fiscal Condition

May 12, 2021 - Fortunately, Legislature Has Time to Decide How to Appropriate Its Federal Funds. The state has until December 31, 2024 t o spend its federal ARP allocation. As such, we recommend the Legislature not allocate all of the ARP funds available to the state as part of its 2021 ‑ 22 b udget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - State law further requires our office to analyze any new mandates identified b y the Commission as a part of our annual analysis of the state budget. In particular, state law directs our office to report on the annual state costs for new mandates and make recommendations to the Legislature as to whether the new mandates should be repealed, funded, suspended, or modified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - Many of the Governor ’s budget proposals would support more dense housing development —near jobs, schools, and other community amenities —that can be accessed with public transportation, reducing dependence on vehicles, and limiting GHG emissions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

The 2023-24 Budget: County of Los Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission Mandate

May 2, 2023 - Some of these activities are one time for each cycle. For example, providing one-time training for each member of the county redistricting commission. Other activities are recurring during the three fiscal years of the map-drawing process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 9, 2022 - This funding is intended to serve as a “bridge ” resource until the long ‑term housing and treatment solutions for people with serious behavioral health conditions authorized as part of the 2021 ‑22 budget come  online.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521