The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals [Publication Details]

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5152

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals California Highway Patrol Proposals Summary In this post, we review two of the Governor ’s 2026-27 budget proposals for the California Highway Patrol (CHP): a $60  million temporary augmentation from the Motor Vehicle Account (MVA) for equipment and operating costs, and a total of $2.3  million on a one-time basis from the General Fund for two capital outlay projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

Broad-Based Cash Assistance in COVID-19 Recovery Actions

Apr 3, 2020 - Some Low-Income Californians Are Not Eligible for Cash Assistance. Although the cash assistance in the CARES Act is far more broad-based than in other cash assistance programs, it is still limited in two important ways.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4214

The 2019-20 Budget: The Governor’s Proposed Supplemental Pension Payment to CalPERS

Mar 4, 2019 - The 2017 ‑18 budget package authorized a plan to borrow $6 billion from the Pooled Money Investment Account—an account that holds the state’s cash—to make a one-time supplemental payment to CalPERS. The supplemental payment was distributed to all five pension plans.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3957

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Flexible Cash Assistance for Survivors of Crime Grant Program Reversion. To help address the fiscal difficulties facing the state, the budget reverts $50  million General Fund from the Flexible Cash Assistance for Survivors of Crime pilot program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2018-19 Budget: Evaluating FI$Cal

Mar 2, 2018 - The FI$Cal Project replaces the state ’s aging and decentralized IT financial systems with a new system that will integrate the state ’s budgeting, accounting, cash management, and procurement processes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3768

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

Jan 13, 2023 - As the figure shows, most of the discretionary increases are to finance some capital outlay projects with cash instead of lease revenue bonds. This increases the size of the budget  problem. $800   Million in Other Differences.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2017-18 Budget: The State Controller’s Office Unclaimed Property Program

Feb 24, 2017 - Security properties that have not yet been liquidated to cash represent about 5  percent of total unclaimed property held by the SCO. When owners claim security properties, they are either given the property itself, or if it has been liquidated to cash, the cash value of the property at the time of its sale.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3584

The 2020-21 Budget: The Governor’s Cannabis‑Related Proposals

Feb 14, 2020 - Opportunity for Resource Sharing Possible in Cash Collection. EDD ’s proposal includes resources to enable it to collect payroll tax payments from cannabis businesses in cash. However, we find that it is unclear why EDD needs to perform its own cash collection activities rather than leveraging those that are already in place at CDTFA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4162

The 2021-22 Budget: Peace Officer Training Mandate

Feb 4, 2021 - New peace officers must generally complete this field training program after basic training but prior to assuming patrol duties. The program ’s field training officers (FTOs) —peace officers responsible for training and supervising new officers —must also meet certain training requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4344