California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - The current discrepancy over the size of the state ’s budget deficit —$18  billion under the Legislative Analyst ’s Office estimate versus $3  billion in the Governor ’s budget —fits squarely within that pattern.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - This change increases the number of CalWORKs Stage  2 and Stage  3 slots. This is because some families that otherwise would have stopped receiving subsidized child care due to increases in their income will continue to be served.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/4

The 2018-19 Budget: California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 2, 2018 - Of this amount, $2. 3  b illion is for preschool programs, $2. 3  b illion is for other child development programs, and $ 144  m illion is for support programs. As Figure  6 shows, the 2018 ‑19 Budget Act augments these programs by a total of $ 655  m illion ( 16  p ercent) from the revised 2017 ‑ 18 l evel.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/4

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan

Sep 6, 2024 - These slots will have full ‑year costs of $305  million beginning in 2025 ‑26. The  budget also modifies and adds into statute details related to the multiyear slot expansion plan. (In 2021 ‑22, the Legislature and Governor agreed to add 206,500 child care slots by 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4922

The 2016-17 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 5, 2016 - Slots Budget Package Increases Funding for State Preschool Slots. The budget provides $34  million for the State Preschool program to annualize the cost of preschool slots added January 1, 2015. The budget also provides $8  million for 2,959 new full –day State Preschool slots at LEAs starting April  1, 2017.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3487/4

Building Reserves to Prepare for a Recession

Mar 7, 2018 - Figure  3 shows estimates of tax revenue losses associated with each of the last three recessions: the recession of the early 1990s, the dot ‑com bust and ensuing recession in the early 2000s, and the financial crisis and Great Recession beginning in 2008.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3769

The 2018-19 Budget: California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 2, 2018 - These funds are allocated as follows: Primary and Emergency Care Residency Slots ($40   Million). Budget documents indicate these General Fund monies are intended to be used to supplement Proposition  56 (201 6) f unds for physician residency slots primarily in the areas of primary care and emergency care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/5

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - Figure 3 General Fund Condition Under Fiscal Outlook (In Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 17, 2019 - Of the ongoing spending increases, $ 301  m illion is for more non ‑CalWORKs slots. (All major child care and preschool programs received an increase in slots, including the State Preschool program, which received an expansion similar to the Governor ’s proposal.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4083

The 2019-20 May Revision: Sales Tax Exemptions for Diapers and Menstrual Products

May 12, 2019 - The state funds various types of subsidized child care for low-income families, but the number of eligible children typically exceeds the number of “slots ” funded by the state. Due to this shortfall, the state fails to assist part of the targeted population and creates an inequity between those who receive slots and those who do not.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4040