The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - BCG is just starting its work at DHCS. The delay was necessary as DHCS responded to changes in federal policy. It is not clear whether the delayed work at DHCS will require meaningful changes in the scope of the work at that department or other changes in the BCG contract.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - Administration Projects MVA Is Fiscally Stable in the Near Term, but Will Face Insolvency Starting in 2028-29. The MVA has been experiencing a structural imbalance for many years, with expenditures consistently outpacing revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

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

Mar 7, 2025 - The project identifies its sponsors and stakeholders, justifies its business case, provides the potential outcomes of the project, and initially identifies the project funding source(s) and start date.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposed Reductions to State Operations

May 21, 2024 - Proposed Process to Achieve 10  Percent Reduction Starts Late and Seems Inefficient. It is our understanding that DOF would not start the process to work with departments to identify savings until the fall.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4903

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

Apr 3, 2025 - The independent assessment of DFPI ’s financial condition identified annual salary adjustments (agency-wide) and start-up costs for new programs as the main sources of increased expenditures at DFPI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

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

Feb 27, 2026 - In addition, starting in 2021, 23 of the state ’s dispatch centers began transitioning voice calls from legacy 911 to Next Generation 911 with some experiencing difficulties. Specifically, some of these early adopters, such as Tuolumne Couty, reported experiencing call routing problems, outages, and dropped calls.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Certification compliance reviews generally start with OSDS program staff, who randomly audit DVBE certifications each month and recertify the eligibility of all DVBE firms every two years. Referrals and complaints of alleged DVBE program abus e can come from the public, state entities (including awarding departments), or OSDS program staff.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

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

Feb 24, 2025 - Given the slow start —but apparent increase in reimbursements this year —the administration is essentially asking to extend the pilot phase and give the program more time to mature. Program Structure Might Not Align With Key Problem It Was Designed to Solve.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4982

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement

Mar 11, 2025 - After the new campuses are selected, California Volunteers would allocate the remaining $3.2  million as grants to campuses for program staffing and start-up activities. With these funds, the new campuses would hire program staff, conduct marketing and outreach, recruit CBOs and Fellows, and undertake any other related activities to help launch the program on an ongoing basis starting in 2026-27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget package excludes the first $20,000 of military retirement benefits, including retirement pay and survivor benefits, from state income taxation starting in tax year 2025. This exclusion is limited to individual taxpayers with less than $125,000 in adjusted gross income (AGI) or joint taxpayers with less than $250,000 in AGI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/