The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - These companies have made big bets on AI, spending hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers and offering extraordinary pay packages to recruit AI researchers. This spending, coupled with sizable gains to investors and tech company employees via stock options, is boosting state income tax receipts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

The 2016-17 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 5, 2016 - Spending in the budget is color coded by program area. You can hover over each box and view a brief description about major state programs. Clicking a box will zoom into a view of a single program area.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3487/12

The 2026-27 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 12, 2026 - That said, recent budgets have set the SFEU bet ween $3.5  billion and $4.5  billion, so the Governor ’s budget proposal to set the balance to $4.5  billion is generally in line with recent policy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5101

The 2025-26 Budget: Undertaking Fiscal Oversight

Feb 24, 2025 - How Do You Focus Your Efforts? The Legislature cannot reasonably undertake in-depth oversight of all state programs in one budget season. As such, the Legislature must determine how to focus its efforts so as to provide information that would be most helpful in making future budget decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4983

The 2016-17 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 5, 2016 - (Changes in the underlying cost of care do not include the rate increases in the 2016 –17 budget. The adjustments reflected here result from changes in the age of children served, choices families make about settings, and the number of hours per week children are in care.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3487/4

The 2018-19 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 12, 2018 - These referrals have grown in recent years, resulting in roughly 850 o ffenders waiting to receive IST treatment. The budget proposes $ 131  m illion ($ 128  m illion General Fund) to work with counties to address the waitlist.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3731

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - Chapter  15 allows part ‑day State Preschool programs to serve children with special needs who do not meet the income ‑eligibility criteria as long as all eligible and interested children are served first.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/4

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - Replaces pay-as-you-go funding for state office buildings with lease revenue bond financing. EITC = earned income tax credit. Allocates New Proposition   98 Funding Primarily for Discretionary Activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/1

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - Specifically, we examined whether New Market Tax Credits had a measurable effect on the incomes of residents of zip codes that received New Market Tax Credit investments between 2003 and 2014. To do so, we first matched each zip code that received investment with another zip code in California that (1)  was eligible but did not receive New Market Tax Credit investments and (2)  had residents with similar incomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - You can think of it like a checking account that a household uses to pay its bills. This year's budget package allocated $125 billion in General Fund spending. Special funds , on the other hand, are state accounts dedicated for specific purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/13