Financial Aid Award Coverage [EdBudget]

Jul 23, 2025 - Dreamer Service Incentive Grant Provides a fixed amount of nontuition coverage for students enrolled at public and private nonprofit institutions who submit a California Dream Act application, are eligible for a Cal Grant B award, and perform at least 150 hours per semester (or 100 hours per quarter) of community service.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/988

Proposition 98 Spending Proposals [EdBudget]

Jul 21, 2025 - Proposition 98 Spending Proposals [EdBudget] Total Spending Proposals $6,183 aReflects additional LCFF costs associated with serving more students in transitional kindergarten, including costs of existing 12:1 staffing ratios. bApplies to the Foster Youth Program, American Indian Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Child and Adult Care Food Program, Charter School Facility Grant
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/1005

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - The final option to consider is reversing or narrowing the Todd case ruling that allows multiple pre ‑existing conditions to be stacked, thereby making it easier to obtain 100  percent permanent disability benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

The 2025-26 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor's May Revision

May 17, 2025 - In addition, the administration includes roughly 70 other proposals, each with an estimated cost of less than $100  million. ( Appendix 1 provides a full listing of these items.) All Other Changes Improve Budget Bottom Line by $2   Billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5044

The 2025-26 Budget: Scholarshare Investment Board

Apr 30, 2025 - Originally $25, seed deposits for newborns are now $100. The state is providing $45  million General Fund annually to pay for these seed deposits. Second, SIB provides a deposit of $500 to first graders who are low income (as defined under the Local Control Funding Formula).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5035

Rethinking California's Reserve Policy

Apr 10, 2025 - This share is determined by a complex set of formulas that can lower excess capital gains by anywhere from 0 percent to 100 percent, although reductions around 30 percent have been the most common to date.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5028

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

Apr 3, 2025 - This fee has not kept up with department costs, and even at the proposed level ($50 —a 100  percent increase), is well below inflation. (Depending on how inflation is adjusted for, the inflation-adjusted level for this fee would be between $246 to $380.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - The remaining $100  million was available for grants of up to $100,000 to establish CCAP agreements. As of February 2025, CDE has awarded 185 grants for middle college and early college high schools, totaling $46  million, and awarded 877 grants for CCAP agreements totaling $88  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

The 2025-26 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 18, 2025 - For comparison, only 8 out of more than 100 projects funded under the previous facilities bond, Proposition  51, were gymnasium projects. This shift is likely related to the new funding categories. Under the old scoring system, gymnasium projects (along with projects relating to child development facilities, performing arts facilities, and certain other noninstructional facilities) were in a separate category eligible for up to 15  percent of available funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5017

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - CalOSBA proposes to consider applications from the 100 grantees who were rejected during the first round and suggest that a new round of grants would allow them to expand the grant to these organizations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018