The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Sep 12, 2024 - Notably, this includes $32  million from the General Fund for the acquisition phase of a project to build a new training center for CalFire. (In total, the training center project is anticipated to cost $632  million, with additional funding to be requested in future years.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4928

Cannabis Tax Revenue Update (2024 Q2) [EconTax Blog]

Sep 4, 2024 - Chapter 56, Statutes of 2022 (AB 195, Committee on Budget) eliminated the cultivation tax on July 1, 2022. Preliminary Total for Second Quarter of 2024: $154 Million. The administration currently estimates that retail excise tax revenue was $154 million in the second quarter of calendar year 2024 (April through June).
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/812

Cannabis Tax Revenue Update (2024 Q2) [EconTax Blog]

Sep 4, 2024 - Chapter 56, Statutes of 2022 (AB 195, Committee on Budget) eliminated the cultivation tax on July 1, 2022. Preliminary Total for Second Quarter of 2024: $154 Million. The administration currently estimates that retail excise tax revenue was $154 million in the second quarter of calendar year 2024 (April through June).
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/812

New Higher Education Reporting Requirements [EdBudget]

Sep 3, 2024 - New Higher Education Reporting Requirements [EdBudget] January 15 each year funding is appropriated       a BBL refers to budget bill language contained in the 2023-24 Budget Act, as enacted by Chapter 12 of 2023 (SB 101, Skinner) and amended by Chapter 38 of 2023 (AB 102, Ting) and Chapter 189 of 2023 (SB 104, Skinner).
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/747

The 2023-24 Budget: Proposed Reauthorization of AB 8 Vehicle Fees

Feb 24, 2023 - For instance, Chapter  249 of 2016 (S B  32 ,  Pavley) updated the state ’s GHG reduction limit from 1990  levels by 2020 to 40  percent below 1990  levels by 2030. Chapter  337 of 2022 (A B  1279 , Muratsuchi) requires the state to achieve net ‑zero GHG emissions by 2045.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4708

California Community Colleges Proposition 98 Spending by Program [EdBudget]

Aug 16, 2024 - AB = Assembly Bill. MESA = Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement. A2MEND = African American Male Education Network and Development. LGBTQ+ = lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and plus.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/871

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 16, 2023 - Appendix 4, Figure 7 Remaining Large One ‑Time and Temporary Augmentations From the 2021 ‑22 and 2022 ‑23 Budget Packages: Resources and Environment General Fund (In Millions) Emergency surge (helitanker contract component) $45 Clean Energy Reliability Investment Plan (SB 846) 100 Diablo Canyon land use planning — Coastal resilience SB 1 implementation 55 Clean Cars 4 All and other equity (ZEV
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4788/4

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Rate of Low-Wage Work Declines Substantially From Ages 25 to 32. As shown in Figure  3, our estimates suggest that the share of workers in low-wage jobs declines by more than one-third between the ages of 25 and 32.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/2

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - This year ’s developmental services trailer bill legislation codifies the Legislature ’s findings and declarations establishing the foundation for the Master Plan (Chapter  47 of 2024 [AB  162, Committee on Budget]).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/1

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - Trailer bill legislation enacted in August 2024 (Chapter 999 of 2024 [AB  177, Committee on Budget]) creates a new directed payment methodology for MLK Hospital. The new methodology is to ensure that the hospital ’s aggregate managed care payment for inpatient services is at least 72  percent of projected costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930