The California Senate Office of Research (SOR) requests studies by public university faculty and students on policy issues of interest to the Senate. SOR’s research partnerships include collaboration with the following educational institutions: the Faculty Research Fellows Program coordinated by the Center for California Studies at California State University, Sacramento; the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley; and the University of California Hastings College of the Law. The reports posted in this section of our website were produced through these research partnerships. Each report presents the author’s opinions and findings, which are not necessarily endorsed by SOR.