The 2022-23 Budget: Vote by Mail Ballots: Prepaid Postage

May 13, 2022 - The 2022-23 Budget: Vote by Mail Ballots: Prepaid Postage The 2022-23 Budget Vote by Mail Ballots: Prepaid Postage Summary. In April, the administration proposed an adjustment to the Governor ’s proposed 2022 ‑23 budget to reimburse counties for their costs related to the prepaid postage mandate for Vote by Mail (VBM) ballots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4596

Voting in California. [Ballot]

Oct 13, 2021 - Under recently enacted legislation, Chapter  312 of 2021 (AB  37, Berman), all voters in California receive a vote by mail (VBM) ballot. Voters can choose to vote by filling out and putting their VBM ballot in the mail, dropping the VBM ball ot off at a ballot drop off location, or casting a ballot in person at a voting location.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-012

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

Jan 20, 2026 - Civil penalties on covered co mpanies may be assessed as a percentage of annual gross revenue, beginning at 5 percent for initial violations and increasing to as much as 100 percent for violations that remain u ncured over specified time periods.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-033

Updating the California Necessities Index

Aug 14, 2025 - Further, the difference between the CNI and the CA CPI ‑U and CA CPI ‑W is often large. Figure  2 shows differences between the proposed measures in each year since 1978. In about half of years, the CNI differed from the CA CPI ‑U and the CA CPI ‑W by at least 1  percentage point.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5065

Voting in California. [Ballot]

Sep 4, 2025 - Voting by Mail. When voting by mail, the measure would require a voter to provide the last four digits of a unique identifying number from their designated government-issued identification on the ir ballot envelope.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-007

Special taxes. [Ballot]

Jan 27, 2026 - Fiscal Effects Higher Costs to Print and Mail VIG. When a ballot measure contains a special tax, the measure would require the VIG to include the State Auditor ’s executive summary. This could add several pages to the VIG and increase state printing and mailing costs by a few hundred thousand dollars per qualified initiative.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-040

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

Nov 14, 2025 - On or before January 31 of each year, each health-related labor organization of a certain size would need to mail and e-mail the reported information to each member and post the reported information prominently on the organization ’s website.
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

Elections in California. [Ballot]

Nov 3, 2025 - Costs for the state could be in t he low millions of dollars for printing and mailing costs associated with the Voter Information Guide for each statewide election cycle . Costs for county governments would depend on whether the additional initiatives would require county elections officials to use more pages for the ballot.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-019