The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - We define a delay as an expenditure reduction that occurs in the budget window (2021 ‑22 through 2023 ‑24), but has an associated expenditure increase in a future year of the multiyear window (2024 ‑25 through 2026 ‑27).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - As discussed in The 2026‑27 Budget: Overview of the Governor’s Budget , the administration’s revenue estimates over the budget window are $42 billion higher than previous budget‑act assumptions and almost $30 billion higher than our November 2025 estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - These proposals generate a total of $2.2  billion General Fund savings within the budget window. Second, the Governor ’s budget includes new discretionary proposals that use budget capacity by increasing spending or reducing revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2020-21 Budget: Cal Grant Cost Estimates

Nov 21, 2019 - The downward adjustments suggest that earlier policy changes, such as extending the FAFSA application window, may already have had much of their impact, with effects now leveling off. After incorporating CSAC ’s adjustments, our revised estimate of 2019 ‑20 Cal Grant spending is $2.4  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4114

The 2019-20 Budget: Assessing the Governor’s Primary Care Physician Residency Proposals

May 9, 2019 - New programs, by contrast, have a five ‑year window to access new federal funding and expand the number of residents they train before reaching their funding cap. The state also can channel grant funding toward hospitals located in shortage areas of the state that do not yet have residency programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4034

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

May 17, 2021 - Mainly as a result of higher revenues, relative to January, constitutionally required spending is higher by nearly $16  billion across the budget window. Other Major Adjustments Reduce Costs by $3  Billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

The 2024-25 Budget: California Community Colleges

Feb 21, 2024 - Given the notable downward revisions in the Proposition  98 minimum guarantee over the budget window, such savings would help the state balance the budget. Consider Forthcoming Data, Together With State ’s Budget Condition, to Decide on Growth Funding for 2024 ‑25.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4853

California Community Colleges—Managing Cash in a Time of State Payment Deferrals

Dec 18, 2020 - The state began using payment deferrals during the dot ‑com bust but relied much more heavily on them during the Great Recession. The practice of deferring college payments peaked in 2011 ‑12, when the state deferred a total of $ 961  m illion in CCC payments —accounting for nearly 30  p ercent of CCC Proposition  98 General Fund support.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4307