The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - The MVA ’s primary source of revenue is from vehicle registration fees, as well as —to a lesser degree —from driver ’s license and identification card fees. CHP receives roughly 60  percent of the MVA revenues ($3  billion) annually, with most of the remainder supporting activities at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 20, 2018 - However, the administration has not provided key information that would be necessary to assess the State Office Building Strategy, such as a funding plan with an estimate of costs of strategy and an analysis of alternatives to the proposed strategy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3758

The 2017-18 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 3, 2017 - As we point out in our December 2016 report, The Administration’s Sacramento Office Building Construction Strategy: Ensuring Robust Oversight, the projects in that strategy are closely interrelated. Also, as we point out in that report, the administration’s strategy lacks basic information necessary to determine its merits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3544

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - This causes the state to lose valuable time that could have been spent developing and implementing other cost reductions strategies. In addition, overly ambitious cost savings targets can mask, to an extent, the size of the structural deficit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2017-18 Budget: Considering the State's Role in Elections

Mar 30, 2017 - Their system is referred to as a “modified punch card ” system, which converts punch card ballots into marked ballots. This modification prevents failed punches, but still relies on the old system. Instead of purchasing or leasing a system maintained by a vendor, Los Angeles County is in the late stages of developing its own open source system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3634

The 2020-21 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 12, 2020 - DGS completed the State Office Building Strategy in March  2016 and made some minor revisions to it in 2018. The State Office Building Strategy includes building three new state office buildings and renovating eight existing state office buildings within about ten years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4157

The 2020-21 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 11, 2020 - Develop Comprehensive Response Strategy Among State and Local Governments. The Council recommends the state develop a comprehensive response strategy that identifies a clear path for responding to the state ’s homelessness crisis and assigns clear responsibilities to the state, cities, and counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4152

The 2022-23 Budget: California Department of Food and Agriculture

Feb 1, 2022 - California Carbon Sequestration and Climate Resiliency Project Registry Background Recent Legislation Established Natural Working Lands Strategy and Associated Project Registry. In 2017, the Legislature enacted Chapter  237 (S B  27 , Skinner) which, among other things, required the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA), to establish a Natural Working Lands
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4510

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - What strategies do CDTFA and other law enforcement partners use to address these avenues for tax evasion? Why has the number of tobacco inspections declined so much? We have seen workload trends presented in terms of total inspections, seizures, citations, and appeals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

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

Mar 11, 2025 - The administration indicates that strategies would be developed by GO-SERVE staff with some activities such as graphic design and polling potentially requiring contracting with third parties. Assessment Proposal Lacks Key Information and Justification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015