The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization

Feb 25, 2025 - Through Article V, Section  6 of the California Constitution, the Legislature authorizes the Governor to reorganize the functions of state agencies through the executive branch reorganization process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate

Mar 19, 2025 - As shown in Figure  1, DRE expects the annual number of applications received across most major real estate sales and broker licensing categories to decline in 2024-25, with the largest reductions occurring in the categories of first-time or new applications.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5019

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - Each year, about 1  million California workers receive a total of about $13  billion in DI and PFL insurance benefits. Similarly, about 1  million California workers access about $7  billion in UI benefits in a typical year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

Apr 3, 2025 - DFPI began implementing SB  908 on January 1, 2021 and started accepting applications for licensure on September 1, 2021. Digital Financial Assets Program. Chapter  792 of 2023 (AB  39, Grayson) requires DFPI to regulate crypto assets (which are sometimes referred to as cryptocurrencies, virtual currencies, or digital financial assets).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2025-26 Budget: State Departments’ Operational Efficiencies (Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12)

Feb 19, 2025 - For example, the universities have greater control over their (1) revenues through tuition and (2) expenditures through setting employee compensation policies—whether through collective bargaining or otherwise—independent from the state’s policies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext [Publication Details]

Feb 25, 2025 - These include: (1) remove extended encumbrance and expenditure deadlines; (2) add a notification period for the Joint Legislative Budget Committee to review final project documentation for the proposed Integrated Case Management System / Integrated Data Management IT project; (3) require the California Department of Technology to publish oversight reports every other month; and, (4) require EDD to provide quarterly legislative meetings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4985

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

Jan 13, 2025 - In total, the Governor ’s budget assumes that state operations costs are reduced by $2.1  billion ($1  billion General Fund) in 2024 ‑25 and $2.6  billion ($1.4  billion General Fund) in 2025 ‑26 and ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - We recommended (1)  requiring all emergency augmentations come from one fund, (2)  establishing an amount for that fund in the budget, (3)  requiring advanced notice to transfer additional monies into the fund and (4)  requiring reporting on planned and actual emergency expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2020-21 Budget: California Department of Food and Agriculture

Feb 28, 2020 - The Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology at California State University, Fresno —with an enrollment of more than 2,500 students —is comprised of seven departments: ( 1)  a gricultural business, ( 2)  a nimal sciences and agricultural education, ( 3)  c hild and family science, ( 4)  f ood science and nutrition, ( 5)  i ndustrial technology, ( 6)  p lant science, and ( 7)  v iticulture and enology.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4187

The 2017-18 Budget: California State Payroll System

Feb 28, 2017 - SCO Corrects System Errors Produced During Pilot  1. In 2014, SCO took on a “Do the Math ” reconciliation effort to identify and correct the errors produced during Pilot  1. Of the 1,542 SCO employees that participated in Pilot  1, the SCO corrected errors for 267 employees who were underpaid and 541 employees who were overpaid.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3590