Office of Emergency Services: Next Generation 911 System [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2026 - Presented to: Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 5 on Corrections, Public Safety, Judiciary, Labor and Transportation
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5151

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - Workstream 5: DHCS —Hospital Financing. BCG is expected to conduct a detailed analysis of financial data for hospitals across the state to identify how different hospital payment models create incentives for hospitals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Proposition  2 (2024) Workload. The budget provides DGS $59.5  million over 5 years (including $12.5  million in 2025-26) from the 2024 State School Facilities Fund and $356,000 ongoing from various funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - It also requires prime contractors to certify, at contract completion, (1)  the percentage of work the prime contractor committed to provide to a DVBE subcontractor, and (2)  that the DVBE subcontractor has been paid for that  work.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals [Publication Details]

Mar 6, 2026 - In this post, we assess the Governor's California Highway Patrol budget proposals for (1) equipment and operating costs and (2) capital outlay projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5152

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - As shown in Figure  2, the department ’s uniformed officer vacancy rate including temporary positions, is still well above the pre-pandemic levels. Specifically, while the vacancy rate was 2.8  percent in 2019, it then rose to over 9  percent in 2021, and remained at 6.6  percent as of 2024, per the most recent data available.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2019-20 Budget: Department of State Hospitals

Feb 13, 2019 - We recommend that the Legislature approve the proposed ( 1)  s tandardization of nursing staffing ratios, ( 2)   2 54 t emporary help positions and dedicated budget for overtime, and ( 3)  5 0  administrative staff to reduce the administrative workload currently carried out by nurses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3936

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies [Publication Details]

Mar 10, 2026 - The budget assumed that the process changes resulting from the contract would reduce state costs by $500 million in 2025-26, growing to $2 billion in annual savings by 2028-29. This post provides background on the state’s recent efforts to identify efficiencies to achieve budget savings and our office’s comments and recommendations concerning the progress of the administration’s efforts to reduce state costs through this contract.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5156

Evaluation of the Statewide Project Management Office

Dec 7, 2017 - The 2017 ‑ 18 b udget provides the PMO with 14 p ositions and $2. 5  m illion (special fund). Analysis of the PMO to Date We recently evaluated the performance of the PMO to date to assess whether the office is meeting —or on track to meet —its original objectives and to better understand the strengths and limitations of the PMO, as implemented.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3723

The 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System

Feb 27, 2026 - The additional amount that would be needed depends on many different variables, including: (1)  the extent to which the state is able to incorporate the existing Next Generation 911  components deployed under the regional approach, (2)  how quickly it can decommission the legacy 911 system, (3)  the cost of the interim contract and solutions, and (4)  the time (and cost) of building out and deploying the new statewide  system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145