Federal Assistance for Businesses Affected by COVID-19

Apr 3, 2020 - The CARES Act also provided $10  billion to the EIDL program to provide emergency grants of up to $10,000 to small businesses that applied for a disaster loan. In April 2020, H.R. 266 provided an additional $10  billion for these emergency grants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4215

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This amount includes $10  million for Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup security costs, $10  million for Family Justice Centers, and $8  million to the City of Los Angeles for fire engine purchases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

Update on Los Angeles’ Bid for the 2024 Olympics

Mar 23, 2017 - Up to $10   Billion Net Increase in Local Economy. The Los  Angeles ‑Long Beach ‑Anaheim metropolitan area had a gross domestic product (GDP) —the estimated value of goods and services produced there —of $931  billion in 2015 —the lion ’s share of California ’s $2.5  trillion statewide annual GDP.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3622

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

Jan 13, 2025 - The reason for the reduction is the recent voter approval of Proposition  35 (2024), which requires the state to spend less MCO tax money on offsetting General Fund spending and more money on provider rate increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Apr 3, 2025 - We also recommend directing DFPI to report annually for three years beginning on January 10, 2026, on the amount of revenue received from each increased fee and how this compares to what the department projected would be received.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - BCG is expected to develop and pilot an analytical model that could save money in Medi-Cal by detecting pre-payment fraud, reducing improper claims, and flagging areas of possible waste and abuse. Workstream 5: DHCS —Hospital Financing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposed Reductions to State Operations

May 21, 2024 - Money is fungible, if the Legislature were to approve both the unallocated reductions and the proposed budget augmentations to fund new activities, what assurances can the administration provide that the newly approved funding and position authority would be used to implement the new activities and not, instead, used to backfill reductions established through the administrative exercises?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4903

2017-18 Budget: Control Section 4.11—Position Transparency

Mar 24, 2017 - For example, the budget used to assume that about 5  percent of a department ’s authorized positions would be vacant at any one time due to natural turnover. At least in recent years, departments typically have had much more than 5  percent of their authorized positions vacant at any one time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3633

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - Innovation Fund of $10 Million for ODI Projects in 2019-20. Of the $26.2 million total funds provided for ODI in 2019-20, the Legislature approved $10 million (General Fund) for an “innovation fund ” ODI can use for projects with state agencies and departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

COVID-19 and the National Guard

Apr 8, 2020 - On March  27, 2020, Congress passed and the President signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (H.R. 748). Among other things, this legislation provides about $1.4  billion to support the National Guard ’s response to COVID-19 nationwide.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4218