California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - These challenges would not be short-lived either. 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

The 2019-20 May Revision: Sales Tax Exemptions for Diapers and Menstrual Products

May 12, 2019 - Expiration dates provide similar opportunities for tax expenditures, helping the Legislature make the best use of its budgetary resources. However, businesses, consumers, and local governments would benefit from predictability in these policies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4040

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan (Final Version)

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4448/1

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - Fund R &Rs to offer training to child care providers on how best to serve the unique needs of foster children. Trailer legislation (Chapter  24) does not specify how funds will be allocated across these three purposes or across counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/4

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan

Sep 6, 2024 - These slots will have full ‑year costs of $305  million beginning in 2025 ‑26. The  budget also modifies and adds into statute details related to the multiyear slot expansion plan. (In 2021 ‑22, the Legislature and Governor agreed to add 206,500 child care slots by 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4922

The 2018-19 Budget: California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 2, 2018 - Office of Planning and Research Provides $10   Million Ongoing General Fund for New Online Learning Lab. The purpose of the new California Education Learning Laboratory is to expand lower ‑division online and hybrid courses at the state ’s three public higher education segments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/5

Whether or Not to Tap Reserves to Solve Estimated Budget Problem Emerges as Key Fiscal Decision Facing California’s Legislature

Apr 19, 2023 - Other downturns, such as the 2001 so-called dot-com recession, had severe fiscal implications while inflicting somewhat milder economic damage. The 2008 Great Recession had brutal effects on both the state ’s economy and budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4762

The 2023-24 Budget: Multiyear Assessment

Feb 15, 2023 - Three of those —the recession in the early 1990s, the dot ‑com bust in the early 2000s, and the Great Recession —resulted in large revenue shortfalls and ensuing multiyear deficits, even for some years after each recession ended.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4687

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - This year, for example, our outlook reflects our best estimates of the effects of H.R. 1: One Big Beautiful Bill Act on the state budget but does not make assumptions about future federal policy changes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 17, 2019 - Of the ongoing spending increases, $ 301  m illion is for more non ‑CalWORKs slots. (All major child care and preschool programs received an increase in slots, including the State Preschool program, which received an expansion similar to the Governor ’s proposal.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4083