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

Feb 5, 2025 - Similarly, in 2021 ‑2022, 22  percent of California adults had a mental illness. In 2022, fewer than 80  percent of those with a mental illness received mental health treatment. The shortage of mental health services is more severe for young adults, with 34  percent of individuals aged 18 through 25 having a mental illness in 2021 ‑2022 and less than two ‑thirds of young adults with mental illness receiving services  in 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - The department also reverts $233  million General Fund from 2022-23 that was available until 2026-27 (the department is reappropriating $3.4  million for the Judicial Council to carry out training related to IST evaluations).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2023-24 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 10, 2023 - The 2022 ‑23 Budget Act included one ‑time General Fund support to eliminate the delay beginning in 2022 ‑23. The Governor ’s budget proposes to shift the elimination of the delay in provider payment processing until 2024 ‑25, which frees up $378  million one ‑time General Fund in  2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4675

The 2025-26 Budget: Understanding Recent Increases in the Medi-Cal Senior Caseload

Mar 6, 2025 - From July 2022 through September 2024, the caseload in the expansion to individuals age 50 and older —a group that is notably not limited to those age 65 and over —increased by about 120,000  individuals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

The 2022-23 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 17, 2021 - We assume that three major sources of non ‑General Fund funding for Medi ‑Cal expire in 2022 ‑23, together raising year ‑over ‑year General Fund costs by around $2.5 billion. First, we estimate higher General Fund costs of $1.7  billion in 2022 ‑23 due to the assumed expiration of the PHE ’s enhanced federal share of cost at the end of March 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4474

The 2023-24 Budget: Assessment of Covered California Budget Solution

Feb 13, 2023 - To support the state subsidy program, the Legislature approved $304  million General Fund annually between 2020 through 2022. Enhanced Federal Premium Subsidies Approved for 2021 and 2022, Supplanting State Subsidies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4681

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - Since the passage of the 2022-23 budget, there have been 58 graduates of this program. In the Governor ’s proposed May Revision, approximately $3.4  million for these programs is proposed for reversion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 24, 2022 - The estimated expenditures on this initiative across these multiple departments in 2022-23 are summarized in Figure  4 below. Figure 4 Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative: 2022 ‑23 Spending (In Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4642

The 2023-24 Budget: Health Workforce Budget Solutions

Feb 21, 2023 - Figure 1 Last Year ’s Health Workforce Package Spanned Several Departments General Fund Adopted in 2022 ‑23 Budget Package (In Millions) 2022 ‑23 Health Care Access and Information $259 $1,420 a Reflects Proposition 98 General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4691

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 9, 2022 - Accordingly, if the PHE expires in April 2022, the increased federal funding would expire at the end of June 2022 while the continuous coverage requirement would no longer remain in place as of May 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4522