Preliminary Assessment of Significant Changes to State's Technology Project Approval and Oversight Processes

Apr 29, 2025 - Also, PDL appears to measure success based on state entities receiving business value from projects, as opposed to PAL which emphasizes completion of system requirements. While business value may be a better measure of success, it is unclear at this time exactly how business value is defined and/or determined by the administration.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5034

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - Are there policy changes that could continue any recently successful initiatives? For the Behavioral Health Community-Based Organized Networks of Equitable Care and Treatment (BH-CONNECT) program, the implementation status of certain components —the joint behavioral health home visits and the activity funds initiative —is unclear.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - To support successfully mitigating risks of payment error penalties, the Legislature will need to understand what changes to state and county processes will be required to address the largest contributors to error rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2017-18 Budget: The New IT Project Approval and Funding Process

Feb 17, 2017 - This is because CDT has still not formally defined project success. Evaluating success can be complicated. For example, if a project runs over budget and takes longer to implement than anticipated, but the IT system works effectively for its users, is the project considered a success?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3562

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

Mar 7, 2025 - Project Success Will Hinge on Robust Change Management Activities. The success of the development and implementation of the CSPS IT project will depend on whether or not change management activities sufficiently prepare departments to onboard onto the new system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - By taking this view, we hope that readers have gotten a sense of the size and seriousness of the overall problem and of the stark dis parities between groups. For researchers, we note that changes in several seemingly disparate types of risky behavior have persisted several years past the onset of the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - (While the state failed to meet some WPR requirements in years prior to 2012, penalties for these years were eliminated through successful corrective compliance actions by the state.) CalWORKs Caseload and Grants Projects Caseload to Grow in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/2

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - CDSS began the EBT card replacement process in early 2025, beginning with a preliminary rollout to 1,000 selected cardholders in January 2025 (as of February 2025, we understand from CDSS that these 1,000 cards were successfully rolled out, with 99.9 percent of new card transactions completed successfully).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care

Apr 15, 2024 - This policy was set to expire June 30, 2023, but was extended for an additional two years under the child care MOU and parity agreement and 2023 ‑24 Budget Act . We understand that federal Title IV ‑E funds can only be drawn down to cover costs associated with actual service costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4893

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot

Feb 21, 2025 - The state ’s application emphasized the importance of providing counties with training and technical assistance for successful pilot implementation. CDSS indicated it would host a community of practice to facilitate sharing of challenges and successes between counties and would consider a process to provide counties with increased support on engaging families throughout the pilot.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978