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 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System [Publication Details]

Feb 27, 2026 - This brief summarizes the history, costs, and current status of the state’s effort to deploy a Next Generation 911 system and assesses the administration’s proposal to abandon the existing regional approach in favor of a statewide model. It also offers recommendations regarding legislative oversight of this project and the long-term governance of the state’s 911 system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/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

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

Mar 30, 2017 - In 2007, then Secretary of State Debra Bowen established new rules relating to the testing and requirements of electronic voting equipment. Through these state actions, several counties were forced to abandon their recently purchased electronic voting systems and, instead, rely on paper ‑based, optical scan technology.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3634

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

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California

Nov 5, 2020 - For example, this includes the costs to acquire or lease facilities, such as hospitals, arenas, and convention centers; purchase equipment; and pay staff in order to expand hospital and medical capacity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4292

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - Integrated Contact Center This project seeks to modernize the department ’s contact center through (among other improvements) additional self ‑service options, enhanced voice recognition, and multi ‑language functionality.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

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 2022-23 Budget: California Department of Technology

Feb 22, 2022 - Rate Development Process for State Data Center IT Services. CDT sets State Data Center IT  service rates to recover the cost of services, both direct (such as hardware and software) and indirect (such as internal CDT administration).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4552