The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2024 - CPUC proposes to increase its CASF local assistance expenditure authority from the current $72.6 million to $136.2 million in 2024‑25 and ongoing. An additional $13.8 million in CASF expenditure authority is requested primarily to cover state operations costs, for a total expenditure authority request of $150 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4867

Cannabis Tax Revenue Update: February 2024 [EconTax Blog]

Feb 27, 2024 - Proposition 64 created two excise taxes on cannabis: a retail excise tax and a cultivation tax. Chapter 56, Statutes of 2022 (AB 195, Committee on Budget) eliminated the cultivation tax on July 1, 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/799

Cannabis Tax Revenue Update: February 2024 [EconTax Blog]

Feb 27, 2024 - Proposition 64 created two excise taxes on cannabis: a retail excise tax and a cultivation tax. Chapter 56, Statutes of 2022 (AB 195, Committee on Budget) eliminated the cultivation tax on July 1, 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/799

Proposition 1 [Ballot]

Mar 5, 2024 - Proposal No Changes to Tax. Proposition  1 does not change the tax on people with incomes over $1  million per year. State Gets Larger Share of Tax. As shown in Figure  1, Proposition  1 increases the share of the MHSA tax that the state gets for mental health programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=1&year=2024

The 2024-25 Budget: Flood Management Proposals

Feb 26, 2024 - If the Legislature believes these projects are a top priority and chooses to fund them, it likely will need to make additional reductions to other planned expenditures given the worsening budget picture.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4856

The 2024-25 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 22, 2024 - The Governor proposes to budget for CDCR ’s utility costs based on actual prior expenditures through CDCR ’s biannual adjustment process. Under the proposed methodology, the adjustment reflected in the Governor ’s budget would be based on the prior fiscal year ’s actual expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852

U.S. Retail Sales Update: December 2023 [EconTax Blog]

Jan 17, 2024 - U.S. retail sales have grown 0.7 percent over the last 3 months and 5.6 percent over the last 12 months. Both of these growth rates outpaced inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/794

U.S. Retail Sales Update: December 2023 [EconTax Blog]

Jan 17, 2024 - U.S. retail sales have grown 0.7 percent over the last 3 months and 5.6 percent over the last 12 months. Both of these growth rates outpaced inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/794

The 2024-25 Budget: Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development

Feb 20, 2024 - Some options include: California Competes tax credits, New Employment tax credits, Research and Development tax credits, and the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority ’s sales and use tax exclusion program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4846

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Feb 15, 2024 - Beginning in 2022 ‑23, the budget included provisional language requiring DOF to augment the appropriation for school nutrition if expenditures are projected to exceed the amount available. CDE is to report to the administration and Legislature on or before January 20 whether the amount included in the budget is sufficient to address these costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4839