Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - Specifically, 36 states limit the amount of time states of emergency can be open before the Governor or Legislature must act to renew them —ranging from 15 days to six months. For example, Florida state law requires a state of emergency to expire after 60 days unless renewed by the Governor.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

Rethinking California's Reserve Policy

Apr 10, 2025 - Figure  6 shows a measure of state revenue volatility put together by researchers at the Pew Charitable Trusts using 15 years of revenue collection data. According to this measure, California has one of the most volatile tax revenue systems in the country, ranking fifth out of 50 states.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5028

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - Recommendations Consider Developing a Child Care Budget Plan in Case Legislature Does Not Receive Key Information Prior to June 15. Given the alternative methodology and a new collective bargaining agreement may not be finalized prior to the June  15 deadline to pass a budget, the Legislature may want to plan for costs associated with the new rates in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - The state provides $15  million ongoing for funding intended to improve linkages between CTE programs at schools, community colleges, universities, and local businesses. The state has funded a variety of projects with this funding, including additional partnership academies, online curriculum and resources for CTE courses (CTE Online) administered by Butte COE, a virtual platform
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

The 2025-26 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 18, 2025 - Under the old scoring system, gymnasium projects (along with projects relating to child development facilities, performing arts facilities, and certain other noninstructional facilities) were in a separate category eligible for up to 15  percent of available funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5017

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement

Mar 11, 2025 - As part of the expansion, the program would support approximately 500 additional Fellows, for a total of 4,000 Fellows (a 15  percent increase). The additional slots would include 250 slots for students with less financial need.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

The 2025-26 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco [Publication Details]

Mar 10, 2025 - This brief analyzes the Governor’s budget proposals for College of the Law, San Francisco (CLSF). In 2025‑26, CLSF would receive $101 million in total core funding, reflecting a $15 million (17 percent) increase from 2024‑25. Both of CLSF’s main sources of core funding would increase, with tuition revenue projected to increase $4.3 million (7.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5014

The 2025-26 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

Mar 10, 2025 - While resident CLSF JD tuition was about 5  percent below the resident tuition levels of UC ’s JD programs from 2012 ‑13 through 2018 ‑19, it was 15  percent below in 2024 ‑25. CLSF Provides Student Financial Aid.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5014

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - The Governor also proposes $15  million for the Superintendent of Public Instruction, subject to approval of the State Board of Education, to select one or more COEs to provide training to develop literacy coaches.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - (For more information about the TFC/MyCalPAYS project, please see the appendix to our March  19, 2014 report — The 2014-15 Budget: 21st Century Project Update .) In 2016, SCO—together with CalHR, which supports state human resources (HR) and labor relations policies and practices—started planning the current effort, the CSPS IT project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011