The 2016-17 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 11, 2016 - The new “Strong Workforce Program ” would require community colleges to collaborate with education, business, labor, and civic groups to develop regional plans for career technical education (CTE). The regions would be based on existing planning boundaries for the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3324

The 2016-17 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 5, 2016 - The goal of this initiative is to help regions develop sustainable policies and infrastructure to improve CTE pathways among schools, community colleges, and regional business and labor organizations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3487/3

The 2015-16 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 19, 2015 - The goal of the initiative is to help regions develop sustainable policies and infrastructure to improve CTE pathways among schools, community colleges, and regional business and labor organizations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3302

The 2016-17 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 5, 2016 - Regional Market Rate (RMR) Increases for Many Voucher Providers. The state also funds child care through CalWORKs and Alternative Payment programs, which operate using a voucher system based on the RMR.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3487/4

The 2018-19 Budget: California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 2, 2018 - These funds are to be allocated to eight regional consortia based on a formula that considers both regional employment conditions as well as grades 7 ‑12 average daily attendance. Each consortium is to distribute funds to schools within its region on a competitive basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/3

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 27, 2021 - Dymally Institute — Regional K ‑16 education collaboratives — Hastings College of the Law California Institute on Law, Neuroscience, and Education — Hastings College of the Law Alternative campus safety program College savings accounts (General Fund share) — CCC Expanded Entitlement Program ‑ base awards — CCC Expanded Entitlement Program ‑ student parent supplemental
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4448/1

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 16, 2023 - At  a high level, this legislation makes the receipt of Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program funding contingent on the creation of, and adherence to, a regionally coordinated homelessness action plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4788

Rethinking California's Reserve Policy

Apr 10, 2025 - Reserves help smooth the difference —funds are saved when revenues are surging (the green regions in the figure below) and then spent when revenues decline below that long ‑term trajectory (the red regions).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5028

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan

Sep 6, 2024 - Instead, smaller than proposed reductions were made to the Multifamily Housing Program ($10  million General Fund reduction) and the Regional Early Action Planning Program ($40  million General Fund reduction), and no reductions were made to the Housing Navigator and Maintenance Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4922

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - The state conducts surveys of regional market costs for child care every two years and typically sets the RMR such that families in every county can use their vouchers to access a certain percentage of child care providers in their areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/4