The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Health Care Access and Information

Feb 27, 2024 - Of this amount, $150  million was allocated to the Distressed Hospital Loan Program (bringing the total one-time amount to $300  million) and $50  million for the Small and Rural Hospital Relief Program (temporarily expanding the program above its ongoing SB  395 revenues).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4860

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - In recent years, smoke from wildfires has grown substantially and has been a major contributor to air pollution in the western United States —making up roughly half of small particulate matter in some regions, compared to less than 20 percent a decade ago.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

Building California’s Behavioral Health Infrastructure: Progress Update and Opportunities for the Proposition 1 Bond

Feb 5, 2025 - On a per ‑person basis, small counties overall received disproportionately more BHCIP dollars than larger counties in these grant rounds. This funding, however, has been concentrated within 11 out of 30 small counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - CalEPA = California Environmental Protection Agency; CalFire = California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection; CalRecycle = California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery; CARB = California Air Resources Board; ZEV = zero ‑emission vehicle; CCC = California Conservation Corps; CEC = California Energy Commission; CNRA = California Natural Resources Agency; DFW = Department of
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432/7

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Higher estimates for personal income taxes and corporation taxes each account for a bit under half of this difference, with the small remainder attributable to a variety of other revenues. This improves the budget ’s bottom line.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - This is because relatively small changes to our assumptions yield billions of dollars in higher or lower savings, particularly over the multiyear. As the box nearby explains, there are many potential reasons that the effects of budget solutions could be different than assumed in our outlook.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092

Federal COVID-19 Response Actions Affecting Older Adults and Persons with Disabilities

Apr 16, 2020 - In general, small businesses apply for assistance and the loans are available on a first-come, first-served basis. (Additional information on the federal assistance for small businesses can be found in another post .)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4221

Mental Health Services Act: Revenue Volatility and the Governor’s Proposal to Reduce Allowable County Reserves

Jul 13, 2023 - Proposition  63 also generally requires that any funds allocated to a county that are unspent within three years (five years for small counties) revert to the state to be redistributed among all of the counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4780

The 2025-26 Budget: CalAIM Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports Implementation Update

Mar 6, 2025 - While the ECM benefit is intentionally targeted at a small subset of the overall Medi ‑Cal population, the take up appears to be between about one ‑third and one ‑quarter of those eligible for services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - As   Figure  6 shows, while brand drugs represented a small share of commercial health plan fee‑for‑service claims in 2021, they comprised a majority of spending. Costs also are higher for consumers, with average out‑of‑pocket costs more than four times the cost for brand drugs than generics.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979