COVID-19 Disaster Declarations and Funding Implications

Mar 24, 2020 - At this point, California and federal officials are reacting to a quickly-developing public health emergency. As a result, information on the availability of federal funding —including funding related to the federal emergency and major disaster declarations —is changing rapidly.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4210

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

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 2022-23 Budget: Vote by Mail Ballots: Prepaid Postage

May 13, 2022 - Chapter 120 of 2018 (AB 216, Gonzalez Fletcher) requires elections officials to include on the return envelope prepaid postage so that the voter does not pay for USPS to deliver the ballot to the elections official.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4596

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California

Nov 5, 2020 - For example, this includes funding for testing and contact tracing, disease monitoring, purchasing and distributing personal protective equipment (PPE) like masks, and disseminating information to the public about the virus.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4292

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - These might include purchasing additional air filters and masks to protect workers from smoke, incurring higher utility costs from an increased need for air conditioning, changing traditional hours of operation, providing additional training to help prevent and identify heat ‑related illnesses, or modifying facilities to accommodate periodic flooding (such as by moving sensitive equipment to higher floors).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - Notably, based on information from county officials, the researchers removed 30  percent (about 1,800) of facilities from the state data. Reasons that facilities were removed from the state data included facility closures, an absence of licensed psychiatric beds, or facilities not accepting patients with mental health conditions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - We identify other staff training ‑related findings from our research under the “IS/IT Infrastructure and Staffing ” topic in the next section, but found the request for official certification of compliance knowledge from CDT to be noteworthy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

The 2020-21 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 11, 2020 - Since homelessness crosses multiple state agencies and jurisdictions, the Council recommends a single high ‑level official and associated team be established to coordinate housing, health and human services, and other state responsibilities relating to homelessness.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4152