The 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System

Feb 27, 2026 - If security and privacy protections need to be upgraded or added on later, who will p ay for these improvements? Is There Sufficient Oversight of This Project? What policies and governance models are needed to ensure that the transition to Next Generation 911  is  successful?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - Authorities Generally Exercised Through Executive Orders. The Governor generally exercises these authorities by issuing executive orders. For example, in March  2023, Governor Newsom issued an executive order waiving statute to ease access to unemployment benefits for people unemployed as a result of severe winter storms that struck the state in February 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities [Publication Details]

Apr 10, 2025 - In this report, we describe how the Legislature has delegated some of its core powers to allow the Governor to exercise emergency authorities during a state of emergency. Next, we assess the degree to which this is necessary to facilitate emergency response and whether there are adequate oversight mechanisms in place.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5029

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

Apr 3, 2025 - (These can include businesses that issue money orders and traveler ’s checks, as well as those that offer digital payments, such as PayPal and Stripe.) Credit Unions Program. Regulates, supervises, and examines credit unions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - This could be done a number of ways,  including: A prime contractor names a DVBE subcontractor as a project partner in order to win a bid, but that DVBE subcontractor may not know they were included in the  application.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 During the special session called by the Governor, the Legislature added Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 to the 2024-25 Budget Act providing up to $2.5  billion one-time from the General Fund for response and recovery costs related to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

Update on Los Angeles’ Bid for the 2024 Olympics

Mar 23, 2017 - President ’s Executive Orders. On January 27, 2017, the President signed an executive order that, among other provisions, temporarily suspended entry of citizens from seven countries (Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3622

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

Mar 18, 2025 - If the Legislature approves this proposal, we recommend adding explicit requi rements to assess a grant applicant ’s inability to use tax credits. California Regional Initiative for Social Enterprises Grant Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

The 2025-26 Budget: Office of Emergency Services—Request for Reappropriation of Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Fund Resources

Feb 24, 2025 - To inform this decision, the Legislature could direct OES and local law enforcement to provide their perspectives in spring budget hearings on the key weaknesses of the LEMA system that are best ad dressed through state reimbursement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4982

The 2020-21 Budget: California Arts Council

Feb 7, 2020 - Accordingly, the report provided several recommendations, including increasing the diversity of districts, adding more financial support for the districts, and providing clearer statutory guidance on the goals of the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4148