The right to boycott or engage in other activities to express opposition to the policies of the state of Israel toward Palestinians. [Ballot]

Sep 30, 2025 - Background Right to Free Speech, Assembly, and Equal Protection.  The U.S. Constitution as well as law and policies guarantee the freedom of speech as well as the right to peacefully assemble and equal protection under law.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-011

Large health sector labor organizations’ political activities. [Ballot]

Nov 14, 2025 - The fiscal effect could be different if a court determined the measure —whether in whole or in part —inhibits political spending and activities by the impacted labor organizations such that it would impede their right to free speech.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-021

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

The 2021-22 Budget: Special Education Proposals

Feb 4, 2021 - This incentive may be most likely to affect how districts address borderline cases, such as a three ‑year old with slow speech development, where it may be difficult to determine whether the child needs special intervention to catch up to peers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4345

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

Oversight of certain public benefit artificial intelligence (AI) companies. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - The measure would have the following major fiscal effects: Increased state costs that would likely be in the tens of millions of dollars annually to establish and operate a new regulatory commission overseeing certain public benefit AI com panies.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-033

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - For California, the dot ‑com era —when stocks rose and then fell precipitously in response to widespread adoption of the internet —offers the most salient example. The internet has proven to be a transformative technology and, yet, the stock market ’s initial reaction was clearly overly exuberant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

The 2023-24 Budget: Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training—Office of Administrative Hearing Costs

Feb 13, 2023 - As of January 2023, POST had filled roughly one-third of its 16 positions in the Intake and Disposition bureau, which is responsible for analyzing and evaluating complaints received from the public and serious misconduct allegations received from l aw enforcement agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4677

Overview of Special Education Funding Models

Dec 17, 2021 - Research using data from the 1990s showed that schools in Texas identified more students with speech language impai rments and specific learning disabilities to increase funding under the state ’s weighted formula.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4486