The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - Difficult to Achieve Large Levels of Budgetary Savings Through Efficiencies Alone. Identifying efficiencies in state government can result in budgetary savings without reducing service levels. However, it is difficult to achieve large levels of savings through operational efficiencies alone (that is, without changes to policy or service levels).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

Apr 3, 2025 - (These can include businesses that issue money orders and traveler ’s checks, as well as those that offer digital payments, such as PayPal and Stripe.) Credit Unions Program. Regulates, supervises, and examines credit unions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

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 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System

Feb 27, 2026 - While OES has provided high ‑level descriptions of its plans, it has not presented critical details to the Legislature, leaving key questions unanswered, including the following: What Is the Nature and Scope of the Problem?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - As shown in Figure  2, the department ’s uniformed officer vacancy rate including temporary positions, is still well above the pre-pandemic levels. Specifically, while the vacancy rate was 2.8  percent in 2019, it then rose to over 9  percent in 2021, and remained at 6.6  percent as of 2024, per the most recent data available.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2026-2027 Budget: California Cannabis Control Appeals Panel Permanent Funding Request

Feb 11, 2026 - The 2026-27 amount is $127,000 (or 3.8  percent) more than the revised 2025-26 level. The Governor also proposes a one position reduction (from 13 to 12) in 2026-27 and ongoing. Assessment Still Too Early to Know What Actual Caseload and Workload Will Be.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5119

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement

Mar 11, 2025 - However, many shared that it is labor intensive to administer the living stipend given they must check that Fellows have completed their required monthly hours of service before manually distributing aid each month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

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

Broad-Based Cash Assistance in COVID-19 Recovery Actions

Apr 3, 2020 - In 2001, the federal government issued about 90  million checks nationwide, totaling as much as $300 per single adults ($600 for married couples). Then again in 2008, the federal government issued about 125  million checks nationwide totaling between $300 and $600 for single adults ($600 to $1,200 for married couples) and an additional $300 per child.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4214

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