Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Residential Electricity Rates in California

Jan 7, 2025 - As mentioned above, a key decision for CPUC and POU boards when they are structuring rates is how much of the revenue requirement to recover from fixed charges (a set amount per month) versus volumetric charges (an amount based on how much electricity the customer uses).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950

The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan

Feb 12, 2025 - These intentions are reflected in choices about how much funding to dedicate to particular purposes, which activities to support, and which departments should undertake those activities. They also are highlighted in the bond ’s requirements about targeting certain shares of funding to benefit vulnerable populations and disadvantaged and severely disadvantaged communities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4958

Frequently Asked Questions About Wildfires in California

Jan 28, 2025 - Various Local Agencies a Entities such as city and county fire departments and local fire protection districts typically are primarily responsible for protecting Local Responsibility Areas, which include incorporated cities and agricultural lands. a In some cases, CalFire and local agencies provide primary response and prevention services in each other ’s jurisdictions under contractual relationships.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4952

The 2025-26 Budget: Various California Air Resources Board Proposals

Feb 24, 2025 - Given the lack of detail around why CARB needs the expansive proposed authority to accomplish the state ’s goals or how the department would use it, we think this proposal requests that the Legislature delegate too much of its constitutional fee‑setting responsibility to the administration.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4980

Assessing Early Implementation of Urban Water Use Efficiency Requirements

Jan 4, 2024 - The California Constitution and state statute govern how public water suppliers set rates, while the California Public Utilities Commission governs rates set by investor ‑owned utilities. In  both cases, the state places limits on how much suppliers can charge customers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4823

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - As such, if the Legislature wishes to have substantively more reserves available when responding to downturns or other emergencies, we would recommend also changing the formulas that set aside funds each year to increase how much is saved.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2020-21 Budget: Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 25, 2020 - Such metrics could include how many acres of land might be restored and how much more quickly permit s will be granted compared to current time lines. We recommend this first report be due in the fall of 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4178

The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - While CA  Volunteers provides some broad guidelines for how funds can be used, the selected cities and counties also have some latitude for designing their services at the local level, including what specific job responsibilities the youth would fulfill.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723

Cap-And-Trade Auction Update and GGRF Projections

Dec 6, 2021 - How Should the Legislature Allocate Discretionary Funding? The Legislature will have to weigh many different spending priorities when considering how to allocate discretionary funding. One important factor to consider is that the 2021 ‑22 budget agreement included multi ‑year funding commitments, including for some programs that have received GGRF funding in prior years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4480

The 2024-25 Budget: CalFire—Implementation of a 66-Hour Workweek

Mar 19, 2024 - The provision of the Unit 8 MOU that establishes a 66 ‑hour workweek differs from how policy changes typically are handled through the collective bargaining process in a few notable ways. First, the provision establishes a large policy change that affects how the state compensates its employees and how the state combats wildfires with minimal detail and significant deference to the joint labor management committee process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4886