The 2023-24 Budget: Governor’s Proposals for the Department of General Services

Mar 1, 2023 - D CC also issues provisional licenses to certain applicants if they have submitted a completed license application and were in the process of completing local permitting processes and CEQA requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4724

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This change is estimated to reduce state r evenues by $135  million in fiscal year 2025-26 and $85  million annually thereafter. Excludes Wildfire Settlements From State Income Taxation. The budget package provides a blanket exemption for settlements related to any wildfire occurring between tax years 2021 and 2029.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - The NSTC is a cooperative public-private effort to advance semiconductor research and development (R &D). Natcast is the nonprofit organization in charge of the NSTC. Natcast Currently Relies on Federal Funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

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

Mar 7, 2025 - Some of these conditions attempt to align the forthcoming May Revision budget proposal (which we discuss later) with the project cost documents o r incorporate additional information that is only available once the primary vendor contract is awarded (such as updated project management and testing plans).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2021-22 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Spending Authorities

Mar 2, 2021 - Our concerns with the Governor ’s proposal to extend DREOA for COVID ‑ 19 r esponse are reflective of the larger problems associated with the state ’s existing emergency spending authorities overall.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4393

The 2021-22 Budget: Peace Officer Training Mandate

Feb 4, 2021 - Specifically , Chapter  469 directed POST to require that FTOs have at least eight hours of crisis intervention behavioral health training by June 2017 o r within 180 days of assignment or appointment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4344

The 2021-22 Budget: Funding for Debt Collector Licensing and Regulation

Feb 17, 2021 - In addition, because the department is still in the process of drafting S B   908 r egulations, it had to make assumptions about the level of staff time and resources needed to license and regulate debt collectors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4376

The 2020-21 Budget: The Governor’s Cannabis‑Related Proposals

Feb 14, 2020 - We recommend that the Legislature consider other additional changes to the state ’s cannabis tax structure and rates, consistent with our December 2019 r eport, How High? Adjusting California’s Cannabis Taxes .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4162

The 2020-21 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 11, 2020 - The Governor suggests some criteria that DSS could use when deciding how to allocate funds among regional administrators, including ( 1)  p oint ‑in ‑time homelessness counts, ( 2)  r ent burden among low ‑income households, ( 3)  r egional housing need estimates for low ‑ and very low ‑income housing, and ( 4)  r acial equity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4152

Evaluation of the Statewide Project Management Office

Dec 7, 2017 - Specifically, CDT ’s new eligibility policy narrows direct PMO services to ( 1)  a ll non ‑reportable projects, ( 2)  r eportable projects only during the project approval process (known as the Project Approval Lifecycle [PAL]), and ( 3)   r eportable projects that have completed the PAL process but are determined by CDT to be “low ‑complexity, ” and therefore receive very limited oversight from CDT.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3723