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May 8, 2025 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 2 on Resources, Environmental Protection and Energy and Senate Environmental Quality Committee
May 7, 2025 - This report is intended to help inform legislative decision-making around reauthorization of the cap-and-trade program. It is submitted pursuant to Chapter 135 of 2017 (AB 398, Garcia), which requires our office to report annually on the economic impacts and benefits of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.
May 7, 2025 - Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 7 on Accountability and Oversight
May 7, 2025 - Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 7 on Accountability and Oversight
May 5, 2025 - In this budget post, we discuss a municipal stormwater mandate issued by the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board in 2009 for local governments in Orange County.
May 1, 2025 - Chapter 114 of 2021 (SB 144, Portantino) required our office to issue a report summarizing the workforce diversity information collected by the California Film Commission (CFC) and evaluate the effectiveness of the tax credit for increasing diversity. In this report, we describe the existing requirements and upcoming changes to diversity efforts in the program, compare and contrast the workforce diversity of productions receiving credits with the broader California workforce and population, and provide some broader considerations for evaluating the expanded requirements taking effect in version 4.0 of the credit.
April 30, 2025 - This is the final brief of a six-part series covering higher education trends in California. This brief focuses on higher education facilities. The brief includes key issues for the Legislature to consider as it makes related policy and budget decisions.
April 30, 2025 - In this post, we analyze the Governor’s budget proposal to provide the Scholarshare Investment Board with three additional employee positions to support the California Kids Investment and Development Savings program.
April 30, 2025 - Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 4 on Climate Crisis, Resources, Energy and Transportation
April 29, 2025 - This post discusses a new process introduced by the administration to plan, develop, and implement generative artificial intelligence projects—the Project Delivery Lifecycle—and its potential impacts on legislative oversight of technology projects.
April 28, 2025 - Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 6 on Public Safety
April 23, 2025 - Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 4 on Climate Crisis, Resources, Energy and Transportation
April 11, 2025 - In this post, we assess the Governor’s proposed changes to the Community Corrections Performance Incentive grant program, commonly referred to as the SB 678 grant program, and provide our recommendations to modify the Governor’s proposal to better achieve the goals of the program.
April 10, 2025 - In this report, we describe how the Legislature has delegated some of its core powers to allow the Governor to exercise emergency authorities during a state of emergency. Next, we assess the degree to which this is necessary to facilitate emergency response and whether there are adequate oversight mechanisms in place. Finally, we make various recommendations intended to allow the Legislature to exercise more of its core powers and ensure there is adequate oversight of the Governor during emergencies.
April 10, 2025 - Reserves allow the state to ensure stable funding for its services over time, even when revenue fluctuates unpredictably. Over the last few years, the state has indeed experienced significant fluctuations—large surpluses followed by significant deficits. This volatility has prompted interest in changes to the state’s reserve policy. In this report, we assess proposed changes by the Governor to the state’s reserve policy and put forward our own recommendations that would allow the state to save enough in reserves to be able to afford its core service level over the long-term.