The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - Extended Fire Season. The budget provides an increase of $42.4  million and 18.5  ongoing positions as well as 276 ongoing seasonal firefighters in order to expand the fire season for CalFire staffing earlier into the spring and later into the fall, as well as provide increased coverage for winter fire suppression and fuel reduction activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/9

The 2020-21 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2019 - In the upcoming budget season, the Legislature will allocate this amount between making new budget commitments (like spending increases or tax reductions), paying down debts, and building more reserves.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4111

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 2025-26 Budget: Undertaking Fiscal Oversight

Feb 24, 2025 - The Legislature cannot reasonably undertake in-depth oversight of all state programs in one budget season. As such, the Legislature must determine how to focus its efforts so as to provide information that would be most helpful in making future budget decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4983

The Quiet Transformation in California’s Cash Management

Aug 29, 2019 - Municipal bond investors had come to expect California ’s external borrowing as a perennial event, deemed necessary by the pronounced seasonality of the state ’s cash flows. Given this history, it is notable that in 2015 the state discontinued its practice of borrowing externally for cash management purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4091

The 2016-17 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 5, 2016 - These resources are for CEC to, among other things, (1)  establish statewide energy efficiency savings targets and prepare assessments of savings on electricity demand on an hourly and seasonal basis, (2)  administer an increased renewable portfolio standard for publicly owned utilities, (3)  produce guidelines for integrated resources plans from publicly owned
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3487/8

The 2025-26 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - While this slowdown has been gradual and the severity milder than a recession, a look at recent economic data —as in Figure  1 —paints a picture of a sluggish economy. Outside of government and health care, the state has added no jobs in a year and a half.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4939

The 2024-25 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Dec 7, 2023 - For example, in 2020 ‑21, the state temporarily suspended net operating loss (NOL) deductions, preventing corporations with net income over $1  million from using NOLs. The state also limited businesses from claiming more than $5  million in tax credits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4819

A Framework for Allocating Federal Recovery Funds

May 4, 2021 - While vaccine distribution continues, public health concerns may continue for a variety of reasons including the unwelcome possibility of COVID-19 becoming a seasonal disease like the flu. The state likely will need to continue to conduct vaccine outreach and education, monitor for variants, and prepare for possible future stress on health care and hospital systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4422

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

Oct 2, 2018 - This includes $ 11  m illion for increased staffing and vehicle maintenance, $9. 4  m illion for additional dispatchers at Emergency Command Centers, $7. 3  m illion for additional California Conservation Corps (CCC) fire crews, and $ 4  m illion to lengthen the season that McClellan Reload Air Base is staffed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/9