The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - (County welfare departments are responsible for administering CalWORKs Stage 1, although most counties contract with an AP agency to administer the program.) Most AP agencies are community ‑based organizations, but in some regions the AP agency is a local governmental agency, such as a county office of education, county welfare department, or school district.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Nov 14, 2025 - Licensed providers will receive a one-time stabilization payment of $431 per child based on their enrollment in April 2025, while license-exempt providers will receive $300 per child enrolled that month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Early Education

Oct 26, 2020 - Trailer legislation specifies how an additional $300  million in federal funds would be allocated in the event that additional funds become available during the 2020-21 fiscal year. To the extent allowed under future federal law, trailer legislation requires the California Department of Education (CDE) to allocate funding in the following order: $30  million to waive family fees
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4289

Child Care Attendance Records: Comparing Paper and Electronic Processes

Dec 12, 2018 - Figure  1 shows the distribution of AP agencies by contract amount. Whereas ten AP  agencies have total contract amounts less than $ 1  m illion, two have contract amounts in excess of $ 100  m illion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3908

The 2016-17 Budget: Analysis of Child Care and Preschool Proposals

Feb 24, 2016 - The change to an all –voucher system would affect roughly 300 subsidized providers that currently contract directly with CDE. Under our recommendation, we believe many of these providers would shift to accepting voucher clients.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3367

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - COLA for AP Agencies Would Result in Additional Slots, Running at Odds With Proposal to Delay Scheduled Slot Increases. The Governor ’s proposal to increase the AP program based on COLA and effectively provide additional AP slots is consistent with the state ’s longstanding budgeting practice for the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - Increases Revenue by Around $300   Million. The Governor ’s budget proposes to change the rules about how taxable profits are determined for financial institutions. The administration estimates this change would increase revenues on an ongoing basis by around $300  million per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2020-21 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Feb 21, 2020 - For example, a CalWORKs family transitioning from Stage 1 t o 2 m ay have to transition from receiving services at their county welfare department to receiving services through an AP agency. Proposal Could Also Create Greater Fragmentation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4167

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

Jan 13, 2023 - While the fiscal impact of this reauthorization would be small in the budget window —an estimated $300  million in 2023 ‑ 24 —the effect would be much larger in future years, rising to roughly $2  billion in General Fund savings as early as 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

Recent Congressional Action on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

Jan 23, 2018 - The administration estimates that these actions reduce estimated General Fund Medi-Cal costs by about $300  million in 2017 ‑18 and about $600  million in 2018 ‑19. As a result, we anticipate the May Revision will reflect $900  million in lower General Fund expenditures, and an equal amount of resources available for any purpose.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3734