The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget [Publication Details]

Jan 13, 2020 - The Governor allocates most of the surplus toward one-time purposes, including maintaining a positive year-end balance in the state’s discretionary reserve. Under the administration’s estimates, total reserves would reach $20.5 billion at the end of 2020-21—this represents a $1.7 billion increase from the 2019-20 enacted level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4135

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - Most notably, the Governor provides a combined $ 900  m illion for six programs aimed at improving school employee training, recruitment, and retention. The budget also provides $ 600  m illion for two new grant programs: (1) $ 300  m illion for grants to help low ‑performing schools and districts improve their performance and (2) $ 300  m illion for
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2020-21 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2019 - Federal denial of the MCO tax would increase General Fund expenditures in 2020 ‑21 (and in the subsequent years) by as much as $2  billion relative to our projections in Medi-Cal. Implementation of Other Major Recent Policy Changes Expansion of Full-Scope Coverage for Undocumented Adults Age 19 Through 25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4116

The 2020-21 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook [Publication Details]

Nov 20, 2019 - This web post provides detail on our projections and assumptions related to General Fund spending in Medi-Cal for the years 2019-20 through 2023-24. In the near term, we project Medi-Cal spending to grow to $23.5 billion in 2020-21. Over the long term, we project General Fund spending in Medi-Cal to grow to up to $27.6 billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4116

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Health and Human Services

Oct 17, 2019 - The subsidies will be available beginning in January 2020 and continue for three years —through the end of calendar year 2022 —after which they will be repealed. Establishes State Individual Mandate and Penalty.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4104

The 2019-20 May Revision: Update to Governor's 1991 Realignment Proposals

May 29, 2019 - Summary of the Governor ’s January Proposal In January, the Governor proposed to increase the amount of health realignment funding redirected from certain counties to offset the state costs of a proposal to expand Medi-Cal coverage to all young adults aged 19 through 25 regardless of immigration status.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4077

The 2019-20 May Revision: Analysis of the Governor’s January and May Mental Health Workforce Proposals

May 16, 2019 - The May Revision proposes allocating $100  million in state MHSA revenues to fund the 2020 ‑25 WET Five-Year Plan. The 2020 ‑25 WET Plan was released by OSHPD in February 2019, but until the May Revision did not come with any attached funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4049

Governor’s May Revision Update: Health Insurance Affordability Proposals

May 15, 2019 - The proposed state subsidies would limit these households ’ net premiums to a fixed percentage of income that would grow from about 10  percent for households with income just over 400  percent of the FPL to 25  percent for households with income at 600  percent of the FPL.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4047

The 2019-20 May Revision: Governor's May Revision Medi-Cal Budget

May 14, 2019 - Significant Changes to the Governor ’s Proposition  56 Multiyear Spending Plan The May Revision proposes a variety of changes related to the use of Proposition  56 funding in Medi-Cal over the next several years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4046

The 2019-20 Budget: Assessing the Governor’s Primary Care Physician Residency Proposals

May 9, 2019 - Introduction To obtain a license to practice medicine, California law requires all medical school graduates to complete three years of postgraduate training. Most physician ‑trainees fulfill this requirement by completing a residency program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4034