The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - The majority protest process makes it less burdensome to increase fees for these services. Notably, Proposition 218 did not define what activities are encompassed by “sewer services. ” A 2017 State Law Defined “Sewer, ” Making Fee Increases Less Burdensome.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - In particular, state law directs our office to report on the annual state costs for new mandates and make recommendations to the Legislature as to whether the new mandate should be repealed (permanently eliminating it or making it optional), suspended (rendering it inoperative for one year), modified, or funded in the annual Budget Act.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2025 - To assist the Legislature in its fiscal oversight role of this large and multiyear program, this post: (1) provides data on the size of the population of people experiencing homelessness in California and recent state spending on housing and homelessness; (2) describes the ERF program’s goals, funding, and reporting requirements; (3) provides an update on ERF grantee awards, spending, and
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5007

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government [Publication Details]

Oct 22, 2025 - The 2025-26 budget package contains a number of major actions in the area of agency reorganization, homelessness, housing, and other actions, which we describe in this post.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5082

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Staff reviews the applications, scores them, and makes the awards. (Cal ICH staff administered the program through 2023-24. The state transferred program administration to HCD —also under the BCSH Agency umbrella —beginning in 2024-25.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government

Oct 22, 2025 - Under the California Dream for All model, borrowers do not make any payments on their downpayment loan until the home is sold or paid off. At tha t time, they will owe the original loan amount plus a certain percentage of the increase in home value.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - In particular, state law directs our office to report on the annual state costs for new mandates and make recommendations to the Legislature as to whether the new mandates should be repealed, funded, suspended, or modified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

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