The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - Within EDD, the Employment Training Panel (ETP) is a quasi ‑independent entity that distributes training grants to businesses for the employer to set up programs to train existing, incumbent workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 23, 2024 - This statutory comparison predates the state employee collective bargaining process established by the Ral ph C. Dills Act. (Prior to collective bargaining, the State Personnel Board [SPB] annually would recommend to the Legislature salary ranges for classifications.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4920

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - As one point of reference, this is roughly equivalent in size to the state ’s outstanding federal Unemployment Insurance loan taken out during the pandemic that employers are set to repay over the coming years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings [Publication Details]

Jul 11, 2025 - Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings [Publication Details] Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings Format: HTML Description: The final 2025-26 budget package approved by the Legislature maintained the May Revision level of savings in employee compensation and set an expectation for the administration and the state’s 21 bargaining units to meet and confer in good faith in order to achieve those savings through the collective bargaining process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5063

Labor Agreements to Achieve Budgetary Savings

Jul 11, 2025 - The final 2025-26 budget package approved by the Legislature maintained the May Revision level of savings in employee compensation and set an expectation for the administration and the state’s 21 bargaining units to meet and confer in good faith in order to achieve those savings through the collective bargaining process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5063

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 2 Debt Payment Proposals

Mar 20, 2024 - In 2023 ‑24, the CalSTRS Board set the state ’s supplemental rate to 6.311  percent (the same rate the state has paid for the past few years), while the “unconstrained ” actuarially required rate —what the CalSTRS Board could set as the state ’s rate if it had full rate ‑setting authority to meet the goal of eliminating unfunded liabilities by 2046 —would be around 3.5  percent according to CalSTRS ’ most recent actuarial valuation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4887

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Because the state had not set aside funds to prefund retiree health benefits for much of the benefit ’s existence, a large and growing unfunded liability exists. In the most recent actuarial valuation (as of June 30, 2023) the state’s unfunded liability associated with this benefit for all state employees is estimated to be $85.2 billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

Feb 15, 2022 - The Governor ’s budget includes $6  million from the General Fund in 2022 ‑23 for DMV to fund overtime for 200 Licensing Registration Examiners, as well as the necessary office and support staff, so that field offices with wait times of 30 days or more for commercial drive tests can offer additional testing slots on Saturdays.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - Unit 16 consists of physicians, psychiatrists, dentists, podiatrists, and other medical professionals who work in institutionalized settings, such as prisons and hospitals. Unit 16 ’s current members are represented by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists ( UAPD ).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - Ratifying Agreement Likely Will Set Precedent for Other Units. There are seven bargaining units, including Unit 6, with ratified MOUs that are scheduled to expire by July 2, 2025. Unit 6 is the largest of these bargaining units.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058