The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - The Governor proposes to pay down $8.4  billion of this amount, with districts receiving the associated cash in 2021 ‑22. Slightly more than $4  billion would remain deferred from 2021 ‑22 to 2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

COVID-19: American Rescue Plan’s Major Health-Related Funding Provisions

May 6, 2021 - According to the Department of Finance, the ARP subsidies will be adjusted upward for the months of May 2021 through December 2021 to retroactively ensure customers receive the higher subsidies for the first four months of 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4425

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - Since 2021 ‑22, the Legislature has also authorized funding for programs intended to strengthen and stabilize the provider workforce in order to establish a more reliable provider network and improve access to services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - In accordance with a court ruling in 2021, DSH was required to provide substantive treatment services to restore competency to an IST individual within 28 days from the transfer of responsibility to DSH by March  2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

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

Feb 5, 2025 - BHCIP Created in 2021 ‑22 Budget. The  2021 ‑22 budget plan included $2.2  billion (later reduced, as described below) to create BHCIP. (This amount was originally the sum of $1.7  billion General Fund and $530  million in federal funding, but the federal funding was shifted to the General  Fund in December 2024, making the General Fund the sole funding source for BHCIP.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

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

Mar 6, 2025 - Assets used in a business ✔ Assets being sold ✔ Assets were not counted if applicant showed they were making a “bona fide effort to sell. ” 2021 ‑22 Budget Package Phased Out Asset Test. The 2021 ‑22 budget package included trailer bill legislation that phased out the asset test for seniors and persons with disabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

The 2022-23 Budget: Update on Home- and Community- Based Services Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2022 - (Refer to The 2021‑22 California Spending Plan: Home‑ and Community‑Based Services Spending Plan for additional information on the September 2021 response from the federal government.) The administration submitted revised HCBS spending plans in September 2021 and October 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4524

The 2022-23 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 17, 2021 - The “near term ” includes the current year (2021 ‑22) and budget year (2022 ‑23) and the “longer term ” includes the final three years of the outlook window (2023 ‑24 through 2025 ‑26). Near Term Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Estimated General Fund Savings in 2021 ‑22 … We estimate that Medi ‑Cal General Fund spending will be $27.5 billion in
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4474

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

Feb 9, 2022 - The 2021 ‑22 Budget Act assumed the increase in federal funding would expire at the end of December 2021, whereas the Governor ’s budget assumes a six ‑month extension of the PHE through the end of the 2021 ‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4522

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Health

Oct 22, 2021 - Of these amounts, $30  million in 2021 ‑22 and $120  million in 2022 ‑23 is targeted at higher education students, and $70  million in 2021 ‑22 and $330  million in 2022 ‑23 is targeted at K-12 students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4465