Proposition 28 [Ballot]

Nov 8, 2022 - The California Department of Education (CDE) may approve requests from schools to spend less on staff. Schools will have three years to spend the funds they receive each year. CDE would reallocate any unspent funds to all schools in the following year.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=28&year=2022

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Child Care and Preschool

Oct 27, 2022 - The budget provides $18.3  million non-Proposition  98 General Fund to award grants to a lead agency in each county to plan for preschool for all three- and four-year olds. The budget also includes language specifying intent to provide $18.3  million in 2023-24 and 2024-25, totaling $54.9  million for planning grants over the three years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4643

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 24, 2022 - COVID-19 Testing in Schools. The spending plan includes $200  million General Fund in 2021-22 for the state to directly purchase COVID-19 tests for schools and $102  million General Fund ($405  million total funds) in 2022-23 for schools to bill Medi-Cal for COVID-19 testing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4642

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98

Oct 24, 2022 - Proposition  51 authorized the state to sell $7  billion in general obligation bonds for school facilities. Funding from Proposition  51 will likely be exhausted in 2022-23. The budget package also includes intent language to provide $2.1  billion in 2023-24 and $875  million in 2024-25 to fund the School Facilities Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4641

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - The 2022-23 spending plan provides over $25 billion from the General Fund for human services programs. This is an increase of over $4 billion, or 19 percent, compared to the revised, prior-year spending level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - (Budget-related legislation includes CalWORKs grant increases as a legislative priority in 2024-25 subject to a potential “trigger ” if certain revenue conditions are met.) Figure  3 shows how the grant levels included in the spending plan compare to the Legislature ’s intended target for these grants (50  percent of the federal poverty level for a family one person larger than the CalWORKs assistance unit size).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/2

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services [Publication Details]

Oct 21, 2022 - The 2022-23 spending plan provides over $25 billion from the General Fund for human services programs. This is an increase of over $4 billion, or 19 percent, compared to the revised, prior-year spending level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4640

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - As part of the 2021-22 Budget Act , the state established a five-year plan to reform service provider rates and rate setting, including implementing a quality incentive program. The spending plan includes an augmentation of $159.1  million General Fund to accelerate this reform, with budget-related legislation further requiring rate reform to be implemented fully a year earlier than initially budgeted —by July  2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/1

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - These rates are now in effect through December 31, 2024, with ongoing rates expected to be established by January 1, 2025. Increases County Responsibilities Around Assisting Older Foster Youth to Access Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/4

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - This year-to-year increase in General Fund reflects a much faster rate of cost growth relative to prior budget estimates. The main reason for the year-to-year General Fund cost increase is the anticipated ramp down of temporary increases to federal Medicaid funds (largely associated with the public health emergency) that were used to offset General Fund costs in the IHSS program in 2021-22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/5