A Framework for Evaluating State-Level Green Stimulus Proposals

Jan 5, 2021 - The Legislature should also consider how those costs and benefits compare to those of alternative ways of spending state funds to achieve other policy goals and priorities. That is, the Legislature would want to consider the benefits of the environmental proposals against what might be achieved by spending a like amount of money elsewhere.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4308

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

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

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

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

Jan 7, 2025 - Typically, the first step that rate ‑setting entities take is to determine the amount of money the utility should be allowed to recover through rates to support the main components of the electricity system and other activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - The Legislature can use excess revenues in three ways: (1)  appropriate more money for purposes excluded from the SAL (under the Governor ’s proposal, the common new spending for this purpose is capital outlay), (2)  split the excess between additional school and community college district spending and taxpayer rebates, or (3)  lower tax revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

The 2022-23 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Expenditure Plan

Jan 25, 2022 - Under our lower revenue scenario where allowance prices drop to the floor, the Legislature would collect enough revenue to allocate $1.4  billion to discretionary  programs, but leave very little money in the reserve.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4496

The 2022-23 Budget: Office of Planning and Research Budget Proposals

Feb 9, 2022 - The program accomplishes this objective primarily by awarding competitive grants to intersegmental faculty teams, which in turn develop the online content. Beyond awarding grants for new online courses, state law allows CELL to undertake other actions to support instructional best practices, such as supporting faculty professional deve lopment and developing a “best of ” library of online materials.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4523

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The reason for the reduction is the recent voter approval of Proposition  35 (2024), which requires the state to spend less MCO tax money on offsetting General Fund spending and more money on provider rate increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Feb 17, 2026 - While eliminating vacancies could appear to be an easy way to achieve ongoing budgetary savings, in some cases doing so co uld undermine environmental departments ’ long-term capacity and ability to achieve the goals and tasks laid out for them in state law.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5124

The 2026-27 Budget: Permitting Support at the State Water Resources Control Board

Mar 2, 2026 - In its statutorily required report to the Legislature, SWRCB identified several ways that state law could be amended to increase the efficiency of the state permitting processes and reduce workload while maintaining core environmental protections.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5144