The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - Accordingly, August budget bill legislation (Chapter 994 of 2024 [AB  157, Gabriel]) provides $25  million for the directed payment. Implements Children ’s Health Care Transition. The 2022-23 budget authorized DHCS to sunset the California Health and Disability Prevention (CHDP) program, which provided early health screening services for children in the fee-for-service delivery system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - The spending plan includes General Fund reductions of $4  million in 2024-25, $161  million in 2025-25, $329  million in 2026-27, and $157  million in 2027-28 and ongoing to various programs meant to address the IST waitlist.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - Residential services, which include independent and supported living services either in a consumer ’s home or in licensed facilities that provide 24 ‑hour nonmedical residential care, typically have a relatively higher cost per person due to the comprehensiveness of the service provided (including personal services, supervision, and/or assistance essential for self ‑protection or completing the activities of daily living).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2024-25 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Dec 7, 2023 - Outlook Current Year (2023-24) Estimates Lower Level of Spending in Current Year. We estimate that Medi-Cal General Fund spending will be $37  billion in 2023-24, a decrease of about $500  million (1.3  percent) compared to the enacted level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4820

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Health Care Access and Information

Feb 27, 2024 - To help address last year ’s budget problem, the 2023 ‑24 budget enacted two key budget solutions to HCAI ’s 2022 ‑23 workforce package. First, it delayed $115  million community health worker funds in the Workforce for a Health California for All initiative from 2023 ‑24 to 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4860

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 23, 2023 - Most of the delays shift funding from 2022-23 to 2023-24. As an exception, the budget delays most of the planned support in 2023-24 for a community health workers initiative into the following two years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4810

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - Under the contract, which extends through the end of 2026, the contractor is to sell the new over‑the‑counter naloxone nasal spray product at $24 for each twin pack. The product entered the market in May 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

Building California’s Behavioral Health Infrastructure: Progress Update and Opportunities for the Proposition 1 Bond

Feb 5, 2025 - Beginning in 2023 ‑24, the state was facing General Fund budget shortfalls. As  a part of addressing those budget problems, a portion of funding for BHCIP was delayed in 2023 ‑24. Later, in the 2024 ‑25 budget, program funding was reduced by $451  million General Fund, leaving $1.8  billion in funding remaining.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - In 2023 ‑24, we estimate these rebates comprised 3  percent of gross spending, up from as low as 1  percent in some years. This increase was expected following the switch to the Medi ‑Cal Rx system in 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - Since 2023 ‑24, the Legislature has addressed a cumulative total of $82  billion in budget problems, but even including the withdrawal for 2025 ‑26, has only used about half of the Budget Stabilization Account (BSA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951