The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - The August session health trailer bill (Chapter  105) directs Covered California to provide payments to plans to help them with the cost of covering gender-affirming care. The payments are to begin January 2026 and are subject to legislative appropriation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - For example, bu dget ‑related legislation in August 2025 (Chapter  105 of 2025 [A B  144 , Committee on Budget]) created a new Abortion Access Fund to support abortion providers, with funds coming from certain excess monies in Covered California plan accounts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092

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

Feb 5, 2025 - The administration is working to allocate the bond funding quickly, with plans to aw ard up to $3.3  billion in May 2025 and a stated commitment to award all funding by 2026. This leaves a brief window in which the Legislature can conduct oversight of the program and influence the administration ’s program administration decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 13, 2019 - The Governor ’s budget includes $ 53  m illion in Proposition  56 funding ($ 105  m illion total funds) to expand physician screenings for ( 1)  a ppropriate childhood development and ( 2)  e arly identification of trauma.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3935

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Health

Oct 22, 2021 - The spending plan includes $205  million ($105  million Mental Health Services Fund and $100  million Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery Fund) one time in 2021 ‑22 to the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC) to provide additional funding to the Mental Health Student Services Act Grant Program, which provides grants to encourage county-school partnerships and increase student access to mental health services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4465