The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization [Publication Details]

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4987

The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization

Feb 25, 2025 - As we understand it, BCSH would become two agencies: the Consumer Protection Agency and the Housing and Homelessness Agency. Each agency would be led by a Secretary, who would be a member of the Governor ’s cabinet.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project [Publication Details]

Mar 7, 2025 - This post provides issues for legislative consideration, as well as questions for the Legislature to ask, ahead of an expected May Revision budget proposal to fund development and implementation of the California State Payroll System information technology project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5011

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - The approved baseline cost of the CSPS IT project is about $1.2  billion, of which roughly 60  percent (or $700  million) is General Fund and 40  percent (or $450  million) is from the Central Service Cost Recovery Fund —a fund that recovers the costs incurred by certain agencies and departments for services shared by nearly all departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

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

Feb 24, 2025 - This created a problem for local law enforcement agencies, particularly those in smaller, rural communities, who found the long wait for reimbursement burdensome. However, the current program does not target funds only to agencies that would face fiscal difficulties from lengthy wait times.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4982

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - However, the state of emergency proclamation authorized the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency and the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency to suspend state environmental permitting requirements in order for CalFire to implement the 35 projects immediately.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

Apr 3, 2025 - The independent assessment of DFPI ’s financial condition identified annual salary adjustments (agency-wide) and start-up costs for new programs as the main sources of increased expenditures at DFPI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate

Mar 19, 2025 - DRE is within the Business, Consumer Ser vices, and Housing (BCSH) agency. It is responsible for issuing licenses as well as more broadly regulating California ’s real estate and mortgage lending professionals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5019

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Technology Project Proposals

Mar 17, 2023 - CDT is an entity within the Government Operations Agency with broad authority over all aspects of technology in state government. This post focuses on two of the department ’s responsibilities: (1)  to review and approve IT projects proposed by state entities, and (2)  to oversee development and implementation of approved projects until completed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4746

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

Feb 19, 2025 - Specifically, (1)  on or before October 1, 2024, DOF would notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC) what direction, if any, had been issued to affected state entities and the criteria DOF would use to assess savings identified by state entities; (2)  in the event that a reduction to a particular program, department, or agency exceeded 7.95  percent, DOF would notify
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975