The 2021-22 Budget: State Board of Equalization

Feb 23, 2021 - Later in 2017, the Legislature passed two laws —A B  102 and A B  131 —that transferred most of BOE ’s programs, budget, staff, and facilities to the newly created California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) and Office of Tax Appeals (OTA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4385

The 2021-22 Budget: State Board of Equalization [Publication Details]

Feb 23, 2021 - The Governor's proposed 2021-22 appropriation for the Board of Equalization (BOE) is $31.8 million, 30 percent higher than the amount spent in 2019-20. Due to vacancies, BOE spent just $24.5 million of its $31.3 million appropriation in 2019-20. This post discusses issues for the Legislature to consider as it decides how much to appropriate for BOE in the 2021-22 budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4385

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Sep 16, 2022 - Incentives and Support to Increase Housing Development Continues State Low-Income Housing Tax Credits. The 2022-23 budget provides HCD additional state housing tax credits. In addition to the $100  million annually that the state makes available for housing tax credits, the budget makes available an additional $500  million one time for tax credits to builders of rental housing affordable to low-income households.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4622

The 2021-22 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Spending Authorities

Mar 2, 2021 - The administration does not appear to include planned COVID ‑19 ‑related expenditures in its fiscal updates in cases where it has not entered into contracts or made public announcements of the expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4393

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - From 2017 ‑ 18 t o 2019 ‑20, its estimates of baseline Medi ‑Cal expenditures (before accounting for policy changes) is $3. 8  b illion lower than we estimated in November. This difference includes a roughly $ 2  b illion downward revision to current ‑year expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Security Proposals

Mar 23, 2023 - We also recommend the language require Cal-CSIC to provide data on the number of reported cyberattacks, requests for assistance, responses to requests for assistance, incidents that warranted response, and descriptions of the level of response before DOF can authorize expenditure of the funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4748

The 2019-20 May Revision: Considerations for the Revised Housing and Homelessness Plan

May 13, 2019 - The May Revision increases General Fund expenditures by $150  million for homelessness for a total General Fund investment of $2.525  billion ($1.75  billion for housing and $775  million for homelessness).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4045

The 2019-20 May Revision: Considerations for the Revised Housing and Homelessness Plan

May 13, 2019 - The May Revision increases General Fund expenditures by $150  million for homelessness for a total General Fund investment of $2.525  billion ($1.75  billion for housing and $775  million for homelessness).
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/4045

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - One option the Legislature could consider is to request that Cal ‑CSIC, CDT, and DOF evaluate the use of provisional budget bill language for nonreporting entities ’ IS ‑related budget requests to condition the expenditure of funding on compliance with certain IS policies, procedures, and standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California

Nov 5, 2020 - Figure  6 shows each individual expenditure that we have included in our estimates. The figure is organized by the six different types of COVID-19 spending identified in the previous section. The Appendix also provides more detail on the major individual COVID-19-related expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4292