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 2024-25 Budget: Establishing the Office of the Inspector General for the High-Speed Rail Authority

Feb 8, 2024 - We recommend the Legislature provide OIG with authority to use the requested classification —Staff Management Auditor (Specialist) —or a similar one with a comparable salary. This might be achieved in a number of ways.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4833

The 2018-19 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 8, 2018 - The pilot program enrolled 5,000 vehicles from volunteer participants to test several options for collecting the revenues, including: ( 1)  p repurchased time and mileage permits, ( 2)  m anual odometer readings, ( 3)  v ehicle plug ‑in devices, ( 4)  s mart phone applications, and ( 5)  a specific built ‑in technology found in newer vehicles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3745

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

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 16, 2023 - Encampment coordinators are tasked with managing encampment cleanups on the state highway system by working with Caltrans ’ maintenance staff, local governments, law enforcement, and service providers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4804

The 2020-21 Budget: Transportation

Feb 10, 2020 - We also recommend that the Legislature use spring budget hearings as an opportunity to exercise additional oversight of Caltrans ’ vegetation management activities by requiring the department to report at budget hearings on the following topics: Vegetation Management Plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4149

The 2018-19 Budget: Governor’s May Revision Proposal for Caltrans’ Capital Outlay Support Program

May 13, 2018 - This information is then entered into the department ’s project management system —Project Resourcing and Schedule Management (PRSM). Based on the information entered in PRSM, headquarters staff estimate the total level of COS staff resources that Caltrans will need to work on each project in the coming fiscal year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3833

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Sep 29, 2022 - Caltrans ’ responsibilities for this program include managing the construction of the middle-mile infrastructure along the state highway system. Road Charge Pilot Program. The budget includes $3  million from SHA in both 2022-23 and 2023-24 for Caltrans to implement Chapter  308 of 2021 (SB  339, Wiener), which requires the state to conduct a road charge pilot program that tests revenue collection.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4628

DMV Shift to Online Services Due to COVID-19

Oct 16, 2020 - For example, is the department better able to manage increases in REAL ID workload in coming months? Has the department considered modifying its fee structure or other actions to incentivize more customers to use less expensive service channels?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4283

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Implications for State Transportation Funding and Programs

Dec 13, 2023 - The Legislature could seek to manage the decline in revenues —at least in part —by reprioritizing remaining funds on what it views to be the most critical activities. For  example, this could include focusing on operations and maintenance rather than new capital projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4821