The 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System

Feb 27, 2026 - The  Legislature then enacted Chapter  926  of  2014 (S B  1211 ,  Padilla), which directed OES to develop a plan and time line for testing, implementing, and operating a Next Generation 911 system, including text ‑to ‑911.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

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 2024-25 Budget: Department of Cannabis Control—Legal and Administrative Hearing Costs

Mar 4, 2024 - DCC licenses and regulates commercial cannabis activity, including the cultivation, manufacture, testing, sale, and transportation of cannabis goods. For example, the department oversees testing laboratories that make sure cannabis is safe for consumption, which includes reviewing license applications, conducting routine inspections, investigating complaints, taking enforcemen t actions, and conducting investigative sample analysis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4869

The 2017-18 Budget: The Governor's Cannabis Proposals

Feb 14, 2017 - This cost estimate for testing is based on information from the University of California, Davis. However, private testing labs reportedly charge much less than this —often less than a couple hundred dollars —so it is unclear what the costs will be for this testing.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/3556

Key Differences Between Recent Medical Cannabis Laws and Proposition 64: A Preliminary Review

Dec 20, 2016 - Distribution model Cannabis must be sent to an independent distributor prior to testing. Cannabis can generally be sent to testing without going through an independent distributor. Mobile delivery Local jurisdiction may prevent delivery of cannabis from a retailer to consumer.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3517

The 2018-19 Budget: Census Outreach

Mar 8, 2018 - These reductions have had a number of impacts to census preparations, including notable impacts to field testing: 2017 Field Test Canceled. The Census Bureau planned to test a number of features of the online response system in 2017, but canceled these tests due to budgetary uncertainty.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3780

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

Mar 7, 2025 - Some of these conditions attempt to align the forthcoming May Revision budget proposal (which we discuss later) with the project cost documents o r incorporate additional information that is only available once the primary vendor contract is awarded (such as updated project management and testing plans).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California

Nov 5, 2020 - This means that some of the state ’s plans to increase testing and expand testing sites and labs will eventually include significant payments by private insurers to cover costs. (This post and all of the figures exclude funds that private sources spend directly in response to COVID-19, for example, for medical treatment for individuals diagnosed with COVID-19.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4292

The 2021-22 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Spending Authorities

Mar 2, 2021 - For example, the administration provided a COVID ‑19 fiscal update on August 14, 2020 t hat did not include the estimated cost —potentially reaching $1. 7  b illion —of a testing laboratory contract that the Governor announced on August 26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4393