The 2023-24 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Mar 20, 2023 - Recommend Spending Federal ARP Fiscal Relief Funds First, Evaluating Remaining General Fund in Spending. We recommend the Legislature direct the administration through trailer bill language to spend federal ARP fiscal relief funds first.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4747

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2024 - Figure 1 Broadband Infrastructure Spending Plan as of the 2023 ‑24 Budget Act (In Millions) $2,986 $6,623 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 ARP fiscal relief funds to GF in 2021 ‑22. b The remaining $2.363 billion in FF for the middle ‑mile network in 2021 ‑22 is state
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4867

Federal Assistance for Businesses Affected by COVID-19

Apr 3, 2020 - The ARP provided an additional $7.3  billion for PPP loans and broadened eligibility to certain nonprofits that previously had been ineligible. The PPP currently is scheduled to stop accepting applications on March  31, 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4215

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 29, 2021 - These changes to the emergency rental assistance program are in response to additional federal funding made available through ARP, which will be appropriated in subsequent action. As of mid-October 2021, the state awarded $897  million to about 75,800 households from the original round of federal emergency rental assistance, prior to ARP.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4468

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Sep 16, 2022 - The 2021-22 budget established the program with $1.75  billion one-time American Rescue Plan (ARP) fiscal relief funds. The program is intended to alleviate the backlog in affordable housing construction.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4622

The 2022-23 Budget: Office of Planning and Research Budget Proposals

Feb 9, 2022 - The 2021 ‑22  budget package included $127.5  million federal American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act funds and $18.8  million General Fund for a new college service program and $15  million federal ARP Act funds for a new youth workforce development program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4523

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Sep 23, 2021 - The budget agreement includes $600  million one-time ARP fiscal relief funds to start a new grant program for regions to develop and implement regional plans to create jobs in sustainable industries.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4452

The 2019-20 Budget: Department of State Hospitals

Feb 13, 2019 - The department also indicates that courts have com plained about the quality of the work carried out by some clinicians. Reduces Quality of Care. This workload takes away time clinicians could otherwise spend treating their patients.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3936

Evaluation of the Statewide Project Management Office

Dec 7, 2017 - This allowed the PMO to test the potential of the centralized project management approach and build the reputation and capacity of the office gradually, with the intention of scaling up to larger, more com plex projects once the office was more established.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3723