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

Mar 7, 2025 - At least 91 processing departments (and, for some processes, nearly all state departments) will need to onboard to CSPS, but there is currently no information about which processing departments will be included in each of the waves.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare

May 24, 2024 - Passing only what is necessary this year would allow more time for the remaining stakeholder questions and policy issues to be worked out and give the Legislature the chance to assess whether the rates structure is in line with its vision for permanent CC R rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909

The 2024-25 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 29, 2024 - Figure  1 shows that the average share of authorized cases that are paid every month slightly decreased from 91  percent to 88  percent from January 2019 through December 2023. This translates to roughly 22,000 fewer paid cases every month relative to pre-COVID-19 levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4868

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - The administration estimates that implementing the Tiered Rate Structure will cost more than $300  million General Fund in 2027-28, $500  million in 2028-29, and $700  million General Fund in 2029-30 (with some potential growth thereafter and ongoing).
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - As of December 2024, roughly 91  percent of minor recipients had a paid provider —which is slightly higher, but close to, the utilization rate for the overall IHSS population. The Governor ’s budget includes roughly $47  million in 2024-25 and $49  million in 2025-26, for support of this policy change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure at May Revision

May 23, 2024 - LLRF Eliminates Remaining $500  Million General Fund ($175  Million in 2023 ‑24, $150  Million in 2024 ‑25, $175  Million in 2025 ‑26). The May Revision eliminates the remaining $500  million General Fund appropriated or planned for appropriation for the LLRF —$175  million in 2023 ‑24, $150  million in 2024 ‑25, and $175  million in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4906

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - When enacted, the budget assumed annual General Fund savings of $500  million in 2025-26 that was expected to grow to roughly $2  billion General Fund by 2028-29 across three departments —California Departments of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), Health Care Services (DHCS), and Social Services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 16, 2024 - Figure 1 Major Spending Increases and Reductions Related to Housing and Homelessness a General Fund (In Millions) Low ‑Income Housing Tax Credit 500 b Foreclosure Intervention Housing Preservation Program ‑$484 HHAPP Round Five supplemental grants ‑260 Homeless programs administrative set asides ‑142 d Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Program ‑76 Regional Early Action
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4936

Rethinking the 1991 Realignment

Oct 15, 2018 - For example, caseload in the IHSS program has more than tripled in the past 27 years, from about 160, 000 i n 1990 ‑ 91 t o an estimated 545, 000 i n 2018 ‑19. (In contrast, the population of California has grown by roughly one ‑third over that same time period.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3886

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - We only plan to update this figure for very significant changes (that is, those greater than $500 million). CDPH = California Department of Public Health; COVID ‑19 = coronavirus disease 2019; CHHS = California Health and Human Services Agency; HHS = Health and Human Services; GARE = Government Alliance on Race and Equity; EMSA = Emergency Medical Services Authority; CalAIM =
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432/2