The 2025-26 Budget: Update on Implementation of New Firearm and Ammunition Tax

Feb 19, 2025 - This is because Chapter  231 makes these registration certificates an additional requirement to be licensed by DOJ to sell firearms and ammunition. Accordingly, revocation of a registration certificate would make a business unable to sell firearms or ammunition in the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

The 2025-26 Budget: Update on Implementation of New Firearm and Ammunition Tax [Publication Details]

Feb 19, 2025 - In this post, we provide an update and comments on the implementation of a new firearm and ammunition tax that went into effect beginning July 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4970

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities [Publication Details]

Apr 10, 2025 - In this report, we describe how the Legislature has delegated some of its core powers to allow the Governor to exercise emergency authorities during a state of emergency. Next, we assess the degree to which this is necessary to facilitate emergency response and whether there are adequate oversight mechanisms in place.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5029

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - Authorities Generally Exercised Through Executive Orders. The Governor generally exercises these authorities by issuing executive orders. For example, in March  2023, Governor Newsom issued an executive order waiving statute to ease access to unemployment benefits for people unemployed as a result of severe winter storms that struck the state in February 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - The bill required the State Council on Developmental Disabilities (SCDD) to establish a multiyear plan for phasing out the use of 14(c) certificates in California. By the end of the multiyear plan (once 14(c) certificates are phased out), any DDS consumers who are employed must be paid at least minimum wage.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

^[PDF] LAO Annual Report Fiscal Year 1993-94

Historically, one of the most im- tg portant responsibilities of the LAO • Making Government Make iscal has been to analyze the annual Gov- Sense-How Should the Legisla- ernor's Budget and publish a detailed ture Reorganize State and Local review of that document at the end Government Program Responsi- ce of February.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/1995/annual_report_f.y._93-94.pdf

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - Of the total amount provided, $15 million was from federal IDEA funding and restricted to special education teacher candidates. 516.5 National Board Certified Teacher Certification Incentive Program 2021 ‑22 Provides financial awards to teachers holding National Board certifications who teach at schools at least 55 percent of students are EL/LI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

Review of the Funding Determination Process for Nonclassroom-Based Charter Schools

Feb 29, 2024 - In  order to be eligible to receive full funding for nonclassroom ‑based ADA, charter schools must meet three criteria: Spend 40   Percent of Annual Revenue on Certificated Staff Compensation. Charter schools must show that their total prior ‑year expenditures on certificated staff represent at least 40  percent of total prior ‑year revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4870

The 2020-21 Budget: U-Visa I-918 Form Mandate

Mar 4, 2020 - While applicants must submit the certification document in order for their Federal Form I-918 to be approved, government officials are not required to complete the certification document. Similarly, officials are able to withdraw a certification document at any time if an applicant stops cooperating.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4192

Smart Initiatives Initiative

In order to facilitate electronic petition-signing, a state authority would issue digital certificates that would uniquely identify the individual and give that individual sole control over the use of the digital certificate.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2000/000754_INT.htm