The 2024-25 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 26, 2024 - The program, which initially was funded as part of the 2019-20 budget package, in cludes a statewide hotline and in-person county mobile response units. The statewide hotline was implemented in March  2021 and counties implemented their mobile response teams in July 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4855

Preliminary Assessment of Significant Changes to State's Technology Project Approval and Oversight Processes

Apr 29, 2025 - Under PDL, state entities would begin by (1)  identifying and refining a business problem to be solved by GenAI technology, (2)  using an RFI 2 or comparable procurement method to solicit and select one or more vendors for a POC, and (3)  analyzing the POC results to select one or more vendors for a “minimum viable product ” (or MVP).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5034

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Technology Project Proposals

Mar 17, 2023 - Figure 2 Governor ’s 2023 ‑24 Budget IT Project Proposals a (In Millions) Enterprise Data to Revenue Project 2 135.0 Statewide Correctional Video Surveillance Continuation 87.7 Electronic Adjudication Management System Modernization 21.1 Heavy ‑Duty Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Program Per SB 210 14.1 Uniform Fiscal System Modernization and the Consumer
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4746

Fiscal Outlook: Developmental Services

Nov 15, 2017 - We also project that the per-person cost of services will grow about 2  percent annually (excluding the costs of minimum wage increases). Taken together, rises in caseload and service costs will increase annual General Fund expenditures by about $1  billion by the end of the outlook period, relative to 2017-18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3717

The 2016-17 Budget: Child Welfare Services--New System

Feb 25, 2016 - The CWS-NS project is intended to bring the system into compliance with state and federal laws and regulations, make the system easier to use for CWS workers, result in enhanced data reliability and availability, allow user mobility, and automate system interfaces with other state partners to enable data sharing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3369

The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the Health and Human Services Budget

Feb 16, 2018 - One ‑time development costs totaled $21. 2  m illion in 2017 ‑18 (most of this from the General Fund). The Governor ’s budget proposes $13. 2  m illion General Fund to operate four acute crisis homes and two mobile crises teams in 2018 ‑19, an increase of $5. 5  m illion over revised 2017 ‑18 spending, when only two crisis units operated out of Sonoma and Fairview DCs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3757

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - The 2019 IHSS MOE was also set to increase annually by (1)  the counties ’ share of costs from locally negotiated wage increases and (2)  an annual adjustment factor of  4  percent. Figure 7
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare Full Implementation Underway CWS ‑CARES Nearly $2 billion provided over life of project, including $180 million in 2026 ‑27 included in Governor ’s budget. Statewide launch of version 1 planned for October 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - Such an approach, though, would work at cross ‑purposes with the state ’s policy goals of (1)  reducing the number of places and times a developer must apply and (2)  no longer potentially having scenarios in which a project is approved by one state entity but rejected by another.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Mar 3, 2026 - Since the Great Recession, as seen in Figure  2, grants for individuals and couples have been increased four times —in 2016-17 (by 2.76  percent), 2021-22 (by 23.95  percent), 2022-23 (by 10.3  percent), and 2023-24 (by 9.2  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148