The 2025-26 Budget: Update on Implementation of New Firearm and Ammunition Tax

Feb 19, 2025 - This is because Chapter  231 makes these registration certificates an additional requirement to be licensed by DOJ to sell firearms and ammunition. Accordingly, revocation of a registration certificate would make a business unable to sell firearms or ammunition in the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

The 2025-26 Budget: Update on Implementation of New Firearm and Ammunition Tax [Publication Details]

Feb 19, 2025 - In this post, we provide an update and comments on the implementation of a new firearm and ammunition tax that went into effect beginning July 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4970

Promoting Equity in the Parole Hearing Process

Jan 5, 2023 - For example, it is possible that appointed commissioners either consciously or subconsciously are influenced by what they believe are the values of the Governor, knowing that they will eventually need to be reappointed by the Governor in order to continue to serve on the board.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4658

The 2023-24 Budget: Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training—Office of Administrative Hearing Costs

Feb 13, 2023 - Background Peace Officers Require Certification From POST. Existing state law requires peace officers (excluding certain classifications like correctional officers) to receive a basic certificate from POST.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4677

The 2022-23 Budget: Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training

Jan 31, 2022 - The  Governor ’s proposal also does not include staffing for the one ‑time certification workload to issue proof of eligibility certificates to officers who do not have a basic certificate, including approximately 4,400 officers who are still in the probationary period with their employing agency and 2,000 reserve officers who do not have a basic certificate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4507

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - This is due to the complex formula that dictates the order in which special funds receive criminal fine and fee revenue that is collected. Given the fund ’s priority order in this formula, it is not certain that it would receive the expected revenues as funds with a higher ‑priority order could receive the bulk of any additional revenue collected.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - These projects were categorized into five groups —and ranked within each group —in the following descending priority order: 18 immediate need projects ($2.3  billion), 29 critical need projects ($7.9  billion), 15 high need projects ($1.3  billion), 9 medium need projects ($1.6  billion), and 9 low need projects ($100  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The California State Bar: Assessment of Proposed Disciplinary Case Processing Standards

Jan 6, 2023 - If case processing standards are unreasonable, it is possible that the quality of case processing —such as the thoroughness of investigations or the proposed disciplinary action —will decrease in order to meet the standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4655

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 16, 2023 - The budget includes a $247.6  million one-time reduction in General Fund support for trial court operations in 2023-24 in order to reflect the availability of property tax revenue in accordance with Control Section 15.45 and Section 2578 of the Education Code.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4805

Overview and Update on the Prison Receivership

Nov 8, 2023 - The most recent court order, issued in October 2021, supersedes the previous orders and clarifies the current procedure to end the Receivership and terminate the Plata court case. Below, we summarize the steps that the court has indicated the state must complete before exiting the Receivership.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4813