Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - Specifically, when a local emergency is declared by a city, county, or city/county governing body, CESA requires the emergency to be reviewed every 60 days by the governing body until the local emergency is terminated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities [Publication Details]

Apr 10, 2025 - In this report, we describe how the Legislature has delegated some of its core powers to allow the Governor to exercise emergency authorities during a state of emergency. Next, we assess the degree to which this is necessary to facilitate emergency response and whether there are adequate oversight mechanisms in place.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5029

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

Apr 3, 2025 - (These can include businesses that issue money orders and traveler ’s checks, as well as those that offer digital payments, such as PayPal and Stripe.) Credit Unions Program. Regulates, supervises, and examines credit unions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

State Assistance to Businesses in Response to COVID-19

Jan 4, 2024 - Geographically, however, both state and federal assistance appeared to have better dispersion in urban and large metropolitan areas and less in rural areas and small cities. In light of these disparities, the state programs could have been better targeted to rural Californians in order to partially mitigate a weakness of the federal program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4824

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate

Mar 19, 2025 - In California, real estate salespersons and brokers, mortgage lenders, and rental property managers must have a license issued by DRE in order to do business. (Real estate salespersons, also known as real estate agents or Realtors, work with a broker.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5019

The 2025-26 Budget: California Military Department—STARBASE Classroom Building

Feb 20, 2025 - CMD Seeks New Classroom Building for STARBASE Los Alamitos in Order to Expand Services . CMD asserts that a new, bigger educational space could serve as many as 900 additional students annually. The department indicates that a new classroom building could accommodate approximately 50 STARBASE classes during the school year, which would effectively eliminate the typical annual program waitlist.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4976

The 2025-26 Budget: State Departments’ Operational Efficiencies (Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12)

Feb 19, 2025 - Does the department anticipate that any changes in statute or regulations will be necessary in order to achieve the identified savings? How will the identified savings affect implementation of enacted legislation?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 8, 2020 - Governor ’s Executive Orders. Since March  2020, the Governor has issued various executive orders related to housing and homelessness following the emergence of COVID-19. For example, the Governor suspended state laws that limit local governments ’ ability to establish local policies that limit evictions and foreclosures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4278

The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization

Feb 25, 2025 - . $15,770 Administers financing programs for affordable rental housing projects and first ‑time homebuyers. 44,647 Boards and Panels Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board Provides a forum to appeal Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control orders for penalties or the issuance, denial, condition, transfer, suspension, or revocation of any alcoholic beverage
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - Different cities and counties began their programs at varying times, but all are currently scheduled to end by May 2024 when the existing funds run out. CA Volunteers allocated 80  percent of the $185  million to the largest 13 cities in the state using a population ‑based formula ($148  million), and granted 19  percent on a competitive basis to 14 other cities and counties ($35  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723