The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - The additional care economy professionals created as a result of the proposed package ’s education and training augmentations will take some time to materialize. While this may help the state meet projected shortfalls of care economy providers in the future, it will likely not provide immediate relief for workforce shortages to the extent they persist now.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians)

Sep 7, 2023 - Newsom) appointed a Receiver to take control over the direct management of the state ’s prison medical care delivery system from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Receiver Significantly Increased Pay of State Medical Professionals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4801

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician)

Sep 9, 2025 - The facilities where Unit 18 members work provide care to patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When there are not enough psychiatric technicians scheduled to adequately provide care to patients —either due to lack of resources, unexpected absences, scheduling error, emergency, or other causes —the state may require staff to work overtime.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

MOU Analysis: Unit 10 (Professional Scientific)

Jan 30, 2023 - Accordingly, taking on the employees ’ share of prefunding retiree health benefits would increase the state ’s costs by roughly $1 for every $1 of pay returned to state employees after ending the prefunding payroll deduction.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4665

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 16 (Physicians, Dentists, and Podiatrists)

Jul 14, 2025 - Unless employees are able to take more time off, furloughs result in larger unused leave balances. These higher leave balances, in turn, lead to higher costs to the state when employees separate from state service and the state must pay the employee for any unused leave at their final salary level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5064

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - The Legislature also will want to think about steps the state can take—and avoid taking—to ensure it does not exacerbate climate impacts, as well as how to prioritize across its various climate response priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - Taking these steps would allow the state to mitigate the heightened risk of revenue shortfalls. The Legislature need not adopt the Governor ’s spending solutions, however. Recent budgets have allocated or planned tens of billions of dollars for one ‑time or temporary spending purposes in 2021 ‑22, 2022 ‑23, and 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2022-23 Budget: Assessing Proposals to Address Unemployment Insurance Fraud

Feb 15, 2022 - Now that this critical period has passed, we recommend the Legislature pause and carefully consider the implications of requiring third ‑party biometric scanning —in this case, facial recognition performed by artificial  intelligence.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 18

Aug 12, 2022 - The proposed agreement specifies that employees at CDCR/California Correctional Health Care Service who are assigned additional duties can request that their lead supervisor clarify which duties take a higher priority over other duties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4617

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - The proposed agreement removes from the list of eligible institutions California Health Care Facility, California Medical Facility, Correctional Training Facility, and Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison (Corcoran).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058