California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - These challenges would not be short-lived either. After the dot-com bust and the Great Recession, it took four and five years, respectively, for revenues to recover. Incorporating revenue risk into the budget now, therefore, reflects prudence, not pessimism.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

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

Oct 2, 2018 - Future Cost ‑Of ‑Living Adjustments May Be Provided. The budget includes language that would adjust the CalWORKs grant based on annual changes to the cost of living, as measured by the California Necessities Index, beginning July  1, 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/7

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - SRR = Standard Reimbursement Rate; RMR = Regional Market Rate; LEA = local education agency; LCFF = Local Control Funding Formula; and COLA  =  cost-of-living adjustment. Reimbursement Rates Increases Standard Reimbursement Rate (SRR) 11  Percent From Effective 2016 ‑17 Rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/4

The 2016-17 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 5, 2016 - Figure  25 displays how maximum monthly grants for individuals and couples will change in 2017 under the SSP grant increase. Figure 25 SSI/SSP Monthly Maximum Grant Levels a 2015 –16 Percent of federal poverty level c 90% Percent of federal poverty level c 112% 113% — a The maximum monthly grants displayed refer to those for aged and disabled individuals and couples
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3487/7

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

Oct 2, 2018 - The budget also provides $ 3  m illion directly to UC for research on Valley Fever —an infectious disease caused by a fungus that lives in the soil and is acquired by inhaling contaminated dust. (In addition, the budget passes $ 3  m illion through the California Department of Public Health for similar research at Kern Medical Center, a nonprofit teaching hospital located in Bakersfield.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/5

Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - State Aims to Reduce Reliance on Costly Group Home Foster Care Placements While foster children living in family settings outnumber foster children living in group homes by approximately 9  to  1, total spending (all funds) is split roughly equally between the two groups.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3511/3

The 2019-20 May Revision: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 12, 2019 - This results from higher estimates of caseload, increases in the use of certain services, and an unanticipated number of residents still living at Fairview Developmental Center. Overall Condition of the State Budget Governor Proposes Total Reserves of $19.5  Billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4039

The 2019-20 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 14, 2018 - To be clear, this means we: Assume Cost ‑of ‑Living Increases Remain in Place. Consistent with recent practice, we have assumed a variety of programs receive cost ‑of ‑living adjustments across the period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3896

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - A December 2017 federal law (known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) established new tax benefits to encourage investment in certain economically distressed areas —called Opportunity Zones. States had discretion to identify Opportunity Zones based on federal guidance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

The 2017-18 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 16, 2016 - First, we assume that DDS will maintain federal Medicaid funding for individuals in Intermediate Care Facility living units at Porterville and Fairview DCs found by the Department of Public Health to be out of compliance with federal certification requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3507