The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - Of the total amount provided, $15 million was from federal IDEA funding and restricted to special education teacher candidates. 516.5 National Board Certified Teacher Certification Incentive Program 2021 ‑22 Provides financial awards to teachers holding National Board certifications who teach at schools at least 55 percent of students are EL/LI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

California gaming activities. [Ballot]

Oct 1, 2021 - Authorizes In-Person and Online Sports Wagering. This measure amends the Constitution to authorize in-person and online sports wagering beginning January 1, 2023. At minimum, California ’s cardrooms, horse racing tracks, and tribes with tribal-state compacts as well as professional sports teams from certain leagues (including the
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-009

Sports wagering. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2023 - However, the state ’s ability to require tribes to make payments to state and local governments is generally limited to state and local governmental costs resulting from the authorization, regulation, and oversight of gaming activities; compensation to mitigate the negative impacts of gaming; and distribution to other tribes, among other things.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-031

Gaming. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2023 - Authorizes Online Sports Wagering. This measure amends the Constitution to authorize Native American tribes to offer online sports wagering beginning July 1, 2025. The measure permits only people 21 years of age or older to make sports wagers and requires them to register for player accounts.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-030

Proposition 27 [Ballot]

Nov 8, 2022 - For example, the state currently does not receive any share of illegal sports bets made online. This means the state would receive new revenue when people make sports bets legally rather than illegally.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=27&year=2022

Cannabis and certain psychedelic drugs. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2023 - Proposal This measure makes various changes to state law related to “entheogenic substances ”, which the measure defines as including cannabis and specific psychedelic drugs. These changes to state law include legalizing entheogenic substances that are currently illegal for use by people 18 years of age and older.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-032

Proposition 26 [Ballot]

Nov 8, 2022 - PROPOSAL Proposition 26 allows in-person sports betting at racetracks and tribal casinos. It requires that racetracks and casinos that offer sports betting make certain payments to the state —such as to support state regulatory costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=26&year=2022

Annual Report on Tax Exemptions for Medicinal Cannabis [Publication Details]

Jun 13, 2024 - Annual Report on Tax Exemptions for Medicinal Cannabis [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4912

Annual Report on Tax Exemptions for Medicinal Cannabis

Jun 13, 2024 - Annual Report on Tax Exemptions for Medicinal Cannabis June 13, 2024 Annual Report on Tax Exemptions for Medicinal Cannabis Statutory Data Reporting Requirement. Chapter  837 of 2019 (SB  34, Wiener) established new tax exemptions for donations of medicinal cannabis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4912

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - “Rising Morbidity and Mortality in Midlife Among White Non ‑Hispanic Americans in the 21st Century. ” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(49):15078 ‑15083. Fowle, Matthew and Giselle Routhier (2024).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945