The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Nov 14, 2025 - The M OU between the state and CCPU also requires the convening of a Joint Labor Management Committee to meet monthly to provide recommendations by November 30, 2025 on the implementation of a single rate structure based on the alternative methodology.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Significant Changes to Solutions From June 2024 Budget Package Managed Care Organization (MCO) Tax Package. Some of the largest budget solutions in the June budget package involved the MCO tax, a tax on health plans that supports the Medi ‑Cal program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2019-20 Budget: Governor's Proposals for Infants and Toddlers With Special Needs

Feb 28, 2019 - Increasing enforcement of existing requirement that children in Medi ‑Cal managed care plans receive regular developmental screenings, for example by including developmental screenings in the state ’s public accountability measures that summarize and compare Medi ‑Cal managed care plan performance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3954

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - Both our office and the administration project that the state faces a manageable budget problem this year. The Governor addresses the budget problem primarily with spending ‑related solutions, as shown in the figure below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

Final EdBudget Tables (2015)

Oct 19, 2015 - Required actions (1) The UC Regents are required to consider state employee compensation when considering compensation for employees in its “Senior Management Group. ” At a minimum, the UC Regents are required to consider comparable positions designated as “state officers ” (such as the Governor, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and a Member of the Legislature) and certain
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3299

COVID-19: Federal and State Actions Affecting K-12 Education and Child Care

May 14, 2020 - The federal funding flexibility waiver affects provisions of ESSA Titles I through V, as well as the McKinney-Vento Act, which provides funding for homeless youth. Child Nutrition Waivers. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), signed by the President on March  18, 2020, authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to waive several requirements of existing federal child nutrition programs until September 30, 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4231

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

Jan 13, 2020 - Under the proposal, for example, the state aims to ( 1)  e ncourage contracted managed care plans to provide additional non ‑health care services, such as intensive care management and temporary housing services, intended to more comprehensively address the needs of Medi ‑Cal enrollees with the most complex and costly conditions (such as the homeless); ( 2)  s
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - Budget Does Not Assume Renewal of Managed Care Organization (MCO) Tax, Foregoing a Potential General Fund Benefit. Since 2016 ‑17, the state has imposed a tax on MCOs that —when combined with a package of associated tax changes —generates a net General Fund benefit of over $ 1  b illion by drawing on additional federal funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2019-20 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Mar 4, 2019 - These issues can be particularly difficult for small providers that may lack the administrative capacity to manage a new facility project. Using One Fund Source Has Benefits. Shifting all non ‑LEA State Preschool funding to one fund source provides administrative flexibility for non ‑LEA providers and CDE.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3956