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

Feb 25, 2025 - Between 1968 and 2020, Governors submitted  37 reorganization plans through this process. The executive reorganization process can be used to transfer, consolidate, or eliminate agencies and programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

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

May 13, 2022 - LAO Comments Since Enactment of Chapter   120, State Law Now Requires Elections Officials to Mail VBM Ballot to All Registered Voters … A subsequent state law, Chapter 312 of 2021 (AB 37, Berman), now requires elections officials to send every registered voter a VBM ballot, rather than only upon the request of a voter.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4596

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

Feb 19, 2025 - Whereas the 20 24-25 budget assumed that one-half of the funding associated with eliminated positions would be from the General Fund, the administration indicates that 37  percent of the funding associated with the identified positions is from the General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - The remaining 37 (13  percent) consisted of other types of emergencies, including those related to oil spills, snow melts, gas leaks, and tsunamis. States of Emergency Are Proclaimed Before and After Events.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - The Governor proposes $11.7  million one-time General Fund to trial courts for the implementation of the Tenant, Homeowner, and Small Landlord Relief and Stabilization Act of 2020 (Chapter  37 of 2020 [AB  3088, Chiu]).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309