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

Apr 3, 2025 - Regulates the offer and sale of certain financial securities and franchises, and licenses and examines broker-dealers and investment advisors. (Financial securities are tradable financial assets, such as stocks and bonds.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate

Mar 19, 2025 - Number of Applications for Real Estate Sales and Broker Examinations and Licenses Is Down. DRE reports that it experienced a significant decrease in the number of people applying for real estate examinations and licenses in the first six months of 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5019

State Assistance to Businesses in Response to COVID-19

Jan 4, 2024 - We also examined whether state tax relief associated with the two other main federal programs —RRF and SVOG —displayed a correlation with the size of the metropolitan area in which businesses were located.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4824

The 2021-22 Budget: Funding for Debt Collector Licensing and Regulation

Feb 17, 2021 - For example, based on various assumptions about the amount of time aspects of the licensing and examination process take, DFPI estimates it will need 17 financial institutions examiners in 2021 ‑22 (increasing annually to 28 e xaminers by 2023 ‑24).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4376

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

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

Mar 11, 2025 - As a pilot, College Corps underwent an external evaluation process during its first two years to examine how students benefited from the program both academically and professionally. California Volunteers shared that students reported that the program strengthened their commitment to community service and contributed to their career development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

The 2019-20 Budget: Department of Consumer Affairs

Feb 13, 2019 - However, for other DCA services —such as the use of some investigative services, correspondence, and professional examination services —DCA allocates costs based on measures of usage by individual boards and bureaus.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3937

Improving California's Regulatory Analysis

Feb 3, 2017 - Clear identification and examination of a range of regulatory approaches. Evaluation of the costs and benefits —quantitative and qualitative —of the proposed regulatory action and the main alternatives.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3542

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of Consumer Affairs

Feb 6, 2018 - However, for other DCA services —such as the use of some investigative services, correspondence, and professional examination development services —DCA allocates costs based on measures of usage by the boards and bureaus.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3744