The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - In particular, we offer background information; comments on revenue trends, CDTFA ’s enforcement activities, and the AB  3218 budget change proposal (BCP); and questions that budget subcommittees may wish to ask about these issues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

Evaluating State Economic Stimulus Proposals

Feb 1, 2021 - Given the challenges of quantifying economic benefits, we recommend asking six key questions, summarized in Figure  2 , to make a more complete assessment of the merits of economic stimulus proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4331

How High? Adjusting California’s Cannabis Taxes

Dec 17, 2019 - Miller, Keaton and Boyoung Seo (2019). “Tax Revenues When Substances Substitute: Marijuana, Alcohol, and Tobacco. ” Mimeo, University of Oregon. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4125

Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - Asking workers to list out prior wages that the state already maintains serves little purpose and has the effect of lengthening the UI ap
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - The survey asks these rotation groups about the hourly wage or usual weekly earnings (along with usual weekly hours) for each worker in the respondent ’s household. For our analysis, key strengths of the CPS include: Individual-level microdata are publicly available, enabling a high degree of customization.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - Questions to Ask the Administration About New Approach to Homelessness. Below, we highlight some initial questions the Legislature might want to ask the administration as it considers the merits of the requests.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2018-19 Budget: The Administration’s Proposition 55 Estimates

Mar 1, 2018 - As such, in this budget year, we recommend the Legislature ask the administration for a clear explanation of its underlying rationale in interpreting the measure as it has. Considerations for a Future Medi‑Cal Allocation Two Options for Using Medi ‑Cal Funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3765

Do Communities Adequately Plan for Housing?

Mar 8, 2017 - Planning for New Housing Often Falls Short Housing element law asks cities and counties to ensure that their planning and zoning rules adequately accommodate future housing needs. This is an incredibly difficult task, made more difficult by residents ’ resistance to building more housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3605

Long-term Capacity for Debt Payments Under Proposition 2

Dec 21, 2017 - Some have asked whether Proposition 2 debt funding payments can be used to reduce liabilities of teacher and other public employees' pension plans. As we discuss in this post, there may be little ongoing capacity to make additional commitments from Proposition 2 debt funding payments through the mid-2020s.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3727

Taxation of Sugary Drinks

Nov 26, 2018 - To account for this factor, policymakers should ask two questions of any tax proposal: Can tax administrators and taxpayers implement the tax successfully? (For simplicity, we use the term “taxpayers ” to refer to businesses that would register and remit the tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3903