The 2025-26 Budget: California Military Department—STARBASE Classroom Building

Feb 20, 2025 - Accordingly, the proposal puts the state at risk of unnecessarily funding working drawin g that ultimately go unused. This would happen if the multiyear deficits facing the state result in the delay of the construction phase of the project to a time when the working drawings are no longer usable.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4976

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - For example, change management includes creating or modifying department workflows based on the capabilities of the new system; training new and existing staff how to use the system; and updating existin g IT systems, as needed, to interface with or provide data to the new system.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Sep 16, 2022 - Budget-related legislation also expands the definition of eligible applicants to include specified g overning bodies of Indian reservations or rancherias and tribally designated housing entities. This funding continues recent one-time discretionary General Fund augmentations for the program, for a total of $975  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4622

The 2023-24 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Mar 20, 2023 - Figure 6 Updated Broadband Infrastructure Spending Plan, Incorporating Delays Proposed in Governor ’s Budget (In Millions) Broadband Loan Loss Reserve Fund g 2021 ‑22 $2,913 $6,550 a Pursuant to Control Section 11.96 of the 2022 ‑23 Budget Act , the Department of Finance shifted $887 million for the middle ‑mile network from American Rescue Plan (ARP) fiscal relief funds to
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4747

The 2023-24 Budget: Governor’s Proposals for the Department of General Services

Mar 1, 2023 - This would revert all the proposed funds except those associated with the high ‑priority direct digital control projects for the California Tower, Governor Edmund G. “Pat ” Brown Building, and Ronald Reagan State Building.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4724

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - For example, researchers have estimated that the prevalence of mental illness and SUD is higher for people experiencin g unsheltered homelessness than sheltered homelessness. Available research also indicates that experiencing homelessness may lead some individuals to develop or exacerbate existing behavioral health issues due to the chronic stress of living without stable housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - Paragraphs (b) ‑(e) in Section 12100 provide CDT with authority over contracts for IT goods and services related to IT projects as well as telecommunications goods and services, while paragraphs (f) ‑(g) provide DGS with authority over contracts for all other IT goods and services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

The 2021-22 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Spending Authorities

Mar 2, 2021 - In order to ( 1)  e nsure that the Governor can access a reasonable amount of funding for emergencies, ( 2)  g ive the Legislature input into the level of funding available for emergency expenditures, and ( 3)  m inimize the chance that emergency spending will undermine the state budget structure or condition, we recommend establishing the total initial level of funding authorized each year for emergencies in the state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4393

The 2020-21 Budget: Reinventing the Department of Business Oversight

Feb 26, 2020 - The concept of these new activities is promising because there could be value in collecting and disseminatin g information on financial services. However, there is uncertainty regarding what they will achieve in practice.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4181

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Sep 23, 2021 - The new Dream Fund will allow participatin g small business technical assistance centers to provide grants up to $10,000 to new businesses that participate in entrepreneurship training programs. California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (IBank) Climate Catalyst Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4452