Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - Officials under the current administration stated that they have established a process for regularly reviewing ongoing states of emergency. Through this process, they coordinate with state, regional, and local officials to confirm whether the authorities under an ongoing state of emergency are still needed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

Annual Revision to Monthly Jobs Survey Shows Far Fewer Job Gains in 2024 [EconTax Blog]

Mar 21, 2025 - Each month, federal officials survey businesses in the state about their current payroll. These surveys are used to estimate how the total number of jobs in each state changes from month to month. Each March, federal officials correct (or "revise ") the monthly survey estimates to match actual payroll records collected from businesses each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/825

Annual Revision to Monthly Jobs Survey Shows Far Fewer Job Gains in 2024 [EconTax Blog]

Mar 21, 2025 - Each month, federal officials survey businesses in the state about their current payroll. These surveys are used to estimate how the total number of jobs in each state changes from month to month. Each March, federal officials correct (or "revise ") the monthly survey estimates to match actual payroll records collected from businesses each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/825

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - In July 2024, Natcast and the Department of Commerce officially launched a site selection process for three flagship R &D facilities. Through this process, they discussed prospective sites with economic development organizations, such as the GO-Biz in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot

Feb 21, 2025 - However, pilot outcome measures have not been officially proposed or selected. Questions for the administration on this topic could include: Has the administration had further conversations with the federal government or stakeholders on the selection of pilot outcome measures or the associated benchmarks and targets?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

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

Jan 7, 2025 - Notably, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission —rather than CPUC or local elected officials —generally oversees the transmission portion of electricity rates, as transmission infrastructure can cross state lines.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - Federal officials recommend targeting a reserve amount equal to the average of the three highest benefit cost years over the past two decades. In our recommended approach, we again use the “average number of weeks of UI benefits paid to covered employees ” calculation described earlier.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - In recent years, federal officials have indicated plans to change the rules around structuring health care-related taxes, including the MCO tax. Were these rule changes to happen, there could be many possible effects on the size and structure of future versions of the MCO tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4941

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - . $16.1  million ($9.7  million from 2022-23 and $6.4  million from 2023-24) in unspent monies provided to increase the number of official court reporters in family and civil cases. $9.2  million from 2023-24 related to the Firearm Relinquishment Grant Program, which supported court-based programs to remove firearms from people prohibited from owning them. $5  million from 2023-24 related to Judicial Council operational savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Transportation

Sep 10, 2024 - This relatively flat year-to-year comparison masks the expiration of some limited-term expenditures and carryover balances from prior years, offset by a few augmentations from the Motor Vehicle Account related to information technology.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4925