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

Mar 18, 2026 - While VAs can result from litigation, they differ from regular court orders or traditional top ‑down regulations in that the affected parties negotiate a settlement to try to achieve agreed ‑upon objectives.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2025-26 Budget: Natural Resources and Agriculture Discretionary Spending Proposals

Feb 18, 2025 - Specifically, the survey found that 23  percent of respondents earn $30,000 or less; 19  percent earn between $30,001 and $60,000; 15  percent earn between $60,001 and $90,000; and 11  percent report earning between $90,001 and $120,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4967

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - Notably, many of them are in lightly populated areas and small communities where human development abuts or intermingles with undeveloped wildlands, commonly referred to as the wildland ‑urban interface (WUI).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457

The 2023-24 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Expenditure Plan and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Revenue Estimates

Mar 2, 2023 - This includes $2.5  billion from projected budget-year auction proceeds and $298  million from other GGRF revenues (such as interest earnings, additional current-year revenues from the November 2022 auction, and utilizing the existing GGRF fund balance).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4730

Living Under Smoky Skies—Understanding the Challenges Posed by Wildfire Smoke in California

Nov 14, 2022 - When wildfire smoke affects people in these communities, it adds an additional load of particulate matter on top of that significant existing level. Additionally, some communities are home to disproportionately large populations of Californians earning lower incomes which therefore may have fewer resources to devote to mitigating smoke impacts at the community level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4644

The 2026-27 Budget: Cap-and-Invest Expenditure Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - Instead, the statute references setting aside funding for them prior to computing allotments for Tier  3  funding. Funding Proposals From State Operations Has Implications for Money Left Available for Other Tiers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Elimination of State Environmental Positions

Feb 17, 2026 - (We refer to these as “environmental positions. ”) By contrast, as shown in Figure  2, environmental positions comprised a majority of the residual positions reviewed by the Legislature (565 of 1,009) and of the positions the Legislature did not agree to eliminate (349 of 650).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5124

Assessing Early Implementation of Urban Water Use Efficiency Requirements

Jan 4, 2024 - The second input (“net reference evapotranspiration”) is a measure of local precipitation, the water needs of plants, and estimated evaporation. The third input is a measure of irrigable residential land area, in square footage.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4823

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Residential Electricity Rates in California

Jan 7, 2025 - IOU customers who contracted for solar systems to be installed after April 2023 are under a new system known as NEM 3.0 (also referred to as Net Billing Tariff), which compensates customers at a notably lower rate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Zero-Emission Vehicle Incentive

Feb 24, 2026 - The administration has not yet determined the extent to which this new proposed program could be used in combination with other existing programs (sometimes referred to as “stacking ”). However, given the number of existing programs and policies aimed at incentivizing ZEVs, a potential for duplication exists, which would create challenges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5140