The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - This statutory change aims to ensure children with exceptional needs can safely use outdoor play spaces in licensed child care settings simultaneously with nondisabled children and charges DSS to implement the necessary changes to child care facility licensing regulations by January 1, 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/8

Climate Change Impacts Across California - K-12 Education

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, design standards and siting requirements for new schools will need to consider the increased potential of future flooding from rising sea levels rather than relying solely on historic trends to assess a location ’s flood risk.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4586

Overview of New Updates to the Cap-and-Invest Program

Dec 9, 2025 - For example, under these pieces of legislation, CARB continues to have authority to set the level of the program ’s price ceiling and floor, the total number of allowances issued, and the share of allowances to sell versus provide for free to industry and utilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5097

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Transportation

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, in areas that historically received a lot of snow, increasing temperatures are reducing the n eed for snow removal work and extending the months of the year workers can complete work on various transportation infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4576

The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 26, 2025 - Assessment Effect of Proposition  36 on Proposition  47 Prison Population Impact Likely Overestimated … The administration did not provide detailed backup showing its methodology to estimate the impact of Proposition  36 on the prison population.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Cap-and-Trade Reauthorization

May 7, 2025 - Accordingly, setting a lower upper bound for allowance prices can thereby constrain potential associated costs for consumers. The Legislature could set a price ceiling at whatever level it deems appropriate given its policy priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5042

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - Overall, Proposed Plan Seems Reasonable and Consistent With Bond Requirements. Based on our review, the Governor ’s proposal appears reasonable. We have not identified any proposed actions or appropriations that conflict with bond requirements, and the timing of the funding allocations generally seems to account for and align with what we know about department capacity and local demand.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5115

California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities

Apr 24, 2024 - Introduction Child Welfare System ’s Primary Goal Is to Keep Children Safe. The child welfare system serves to protect children from maltreatment —including by removing children from their home and placing them into temporary foster care when deemed necessary —and to strengthen families so that children can remain safely with their families whenever possible.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4897

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Home Safe provides homelessness prevention and housing interventions to support safety and housing stability for individuals served by the local APS agency. 2025-26 DSS Housing and Homelessness Spending Plan Makes One-Time Augmentations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/7

Artificial intelligence (AI) and child safety. [Ballot]

Dec 12, 2025 - Allows State and Private Individuals to Seek Monetary Awards. The measure allows DOJ to seek monetary penalties of $25,000 for each violation of the above-noted prohibition and safety mandate requirements, as well as reasonable attorney fees.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-025