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

Oct 17, 2019 - Disposal of Developmental Center (DC) Properties. The budget includes $23.3  million from the General Fund in 2019 ‑20 to support the disposal of two DC properties. First, for the Sonoma DC —whose final residents moved out in 2018 —the budget includes $21.1  million from the General Fund in 2019 ‑20 (and a total of $43.7  million over three
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Chapter   80 of 2020 (S B   588 , Archuleta) —which, among other things, directs state entities to withhold up to $10,000 from the final payment otherwise due to a prime contractor if that prime contractor does not certify various pieces of DVBE ‑related information.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

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

Jan 13, 2025 - We understand that while the administration indicates it will provide this payment in the future—after the final calculation of the minimum funding requirement—it also has not scored this future obligation in its multiyear budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Mar 11, 2025 - Campuses receive grants from California Volunteers that include funding for Fellows ’ living stipends. Campuses are responsible for distributing these living stipends to Fellows on a monthly basis. California Volunteers also gives campuses funding for some education award coverage.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

The 2018-19 Budget: Census Outreach

Mar 8, 2018 - Reduced Follow Up. The Census Bureau expects to hire 50  percent fewer fieldworkers for nonresponse follow up in 2020. Consequently, field operations will be substantially reduced in 2020. In previous years, census field workers visited households that had not yet responded up to six times to complete their surveys.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3780

The 2020 Census: Potential Impacts on California

Dec 13, 2018 - The Bureau will complete two separate counts of people living in the United States as part of the 2020 Census: the household enumeration (a count of people living in houses, apartments, and other dwellings) and a group quarters enumeration (a count of people living in facilities, like dormitories, military bases, and prisons).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3909

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - In this follow up to California ’s High Housing Costs , we offer additional evidence that facilitating more private housing development in the state ’s coastal urban communities would help make housing more affordable for low –income Californians.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

The Property Tax Inheritance Exclusion

Oct 9, 2017 - Consequently, monthly ownership costs for these homeowners were around $1,000 less than the typical homeowner ($1,650 vs. $670). Because most inherited homes have been owned for decades, children typically are receiving a property with lower ownership costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3706

Evaluation of the Property Tax Postponement Program

Oct 8, 2018 - HECMs are the most common type of reverse mortgages —making up more than 95  p ercent of the U.S. reverse mortgage market since the early 2000s. (The rest of the reverse mortgage market is made up of proprietary reverse mortgages, which are privately financed and are more readily available to people with higher ‑value homes.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3885

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - The Legislature authorized the funding for the contract with the expectation that costs of up to $20  million could yield up to $2  billion General Fund savings annually by 2028-29. The contract is now in place.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156