The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - This should reduce annual state pension costs. To make this payment, the budget uses a loan from the state ’s cash balances in the Pooled Money Investment Account (PMIA), which is essentially the state ’s checking account.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/1

The 2025-26 Budget: CalAIM Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports Implementation Update

Mar 6, 2025 - State Provides Grants to MCPs and Providers to Develop ECM and Community Supports Program Infrastructure. In order to support the implementation of ECM and Community Supports, the state implemented the PATH initiative and the Incentive Payment Program (IPP) to help create and expand program infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

The 2025-26 Budget: Office of Emergency Services—Request for Reappropriation of Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Fund Resources

Feb 24, 2025 - These resources were used to establish the LEMA Assistance Fund, which provides state funding to local law enforcement agencies when they use the state ’s mutual aid system. These funds, which OES limits to emergency events that meet certain criteria (such as lasting more than 12 hours), may be used to pay for responding officer overtime, housing, and other specified costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4982

^[PDF] The 2020-21 Budget: Proposition 98 Education Analysis

Key elements of the Governor’s proposal, including the vision and scope of the grant program, are left entirely to the discretion of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence and the State Board of Education .
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2020/4174/prop98-ed-analysis-022420.pdf

Addressing California’s Key Liabilities

Retirement CalPERS Largest Public Pension System in U.S. With assets totaling over $275 billion, CalPERS is the nation ’s largest public pension fund. CalPERS administers retirement programs for over 3,000 state and local employers.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/finance/liabilities/addressing-california-key-liabilities-050714.aspx

The 2025-26 Budget: State Departments’ Operational Efficiencies (Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12)

Feb 19, 2025 - Efficiencies in State Government Finding Efficiencies in State Government a Good Endeavor. Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12 put forward a worthy goal for DOF to lead a statewide effort to identify budgetary inefficiencies in state operations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot [Publication Details]

Feb 21, 2025 - In March 2025, the federal government notified the five previously selected pilot states—California, Maine, Kentucky, Minnesota, and Ohio—that these states were deselected from the pilot project. The federal Administration for Children and Families (ACF) indicated it plans to take a new approach to the pilot program and will issue a new request for proposals from states.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4978

The 2023-24 Budget: California Community Colleges

Feb 22, 2023 - Community college pension costs are expected to increase by about $73   million in 2023 ‑24. (Unlike in some recent years, the Governor does not have proposals addressing unfunded retirement liabilities or providing district pension relief.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4695

The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - However, patients may also be placed in such beds in a state hospital operated by the Department of State Hospitals (DSH) through a referral process. There is a total of 1,632 of these beds —1 ,296 in prisons and 336 in state hospitals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - Additionally, BFS provides service to various state, federal, and other entities. Finally, BFS operates the state ’s DNA laboratory as well as the state ’s criminalistics training institute. Local Entities Use Most of BFS Services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972