The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - While the MVA is facing out-year shortfalls, it has sufficient funding to accommodate the two proposed minor capital outlay proposals in 2026-27. Besides the policy rationale for following the historical CH P funding approach, the General Fund is projected to face significant out-year revenue shortfalls.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

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

Apr 3, 2025 - (Five of the 13 established programs and subprograms were not found to be facing structural deficits.) Figure  2 summarizes projected revenues and costs for the eight established DFPI programs and subprograms that the report identified as facing cumulative structural deficits from 2023-24 through 2027-28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - Identifying efficiencies can be a worthy endeavor in any year; however, it is particularly important to minimize unnecessary or duplicative spending in times like the present when the state faces a projected structural budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2025-26 Budget: Office of Emergency Services—Request for Reappropriation of Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Fund Resources

Feb 24, 2025 - However, the current program does not target funds only to agencies that would face fiscal difficulties from lengthy wait times. This means the Fund could support agencies that may not need it. No Current Requirement to Provide Data on Outcomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4982

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

Feb 27, 2026 - It is unclear if OES ’s choices are consistent with the Legislature ’s preferences if faced with the same set of options and trade ‑ offs —particularly since OES has not provided information on the trade ‑offs and costs of the alternatives it considered, nor sought formal legislative input (such as proposing the change through trailer bill language) as it moves forward with its plans.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

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

Jan 13, 2023 - Both our office and the administration project that the state faces a manageable budget problem this year. The Governor addresses the budget problem primarily with spending ‑related solutions, as shown in the figure below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2025-26 Budget: California Military Department—STARBASE Classroom Building

Feb 20, 2025 - This would happen if the multiyear deficits facing the state result in the delay of the construction phase of the project to a time when the working drawings are no longer usable. Recommendation Reject Without Prejudice.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4976

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The language also requires OES to provide the Legislature with two progress reports on the project —which has faced significant implementation challenges —on or before November 1, 2025 and March  1, 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - OSDS largely attributes this year ‑over ‑year decrease to a statewide expenditure reduction directive issued by the Department of Finance in December 2023 that was intended to help address the fiscal difficulties facing the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposed Reductions to State Operations

May 21, 2024 - While this proposal may help the state reach a balanced budget “on paper, ” in reality, the unrealized savings would flow into the 2025-26 budget process and add to any fiscal challenges the Legislature is facing that year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4903