The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook Executive Summary Not Safe to Bet Artificial Intelligence ( AI) Fueled Exuberance Is Sustainable. Both the California and U.S. economies currently face significant headwinds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

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 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 27, 2021 - Hospital — Provides bridge funding for medically tailored meals — Provides accelerated enrollment for adult enrollees — Authorizes community health workers to provide Medi ‑Cal benefits — Establishes Medication Therapy Management program — Adds infant whole genome sequencing as a benefit — Support for free and charitable clinics — Ends rate reduction for complex rehabilitation
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4448/1

The 2017-18 Budget: Alternatives to the Governor’s Proposition 2 Proposals

Feb 23, 2017 - This publication outlines alternatives to the Governor ’s proposals that could free up General Fund resources. Of these options, there is the strongest argument for counting the repayment of weight fee loans toward Proposition  2 debt payment requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3574

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - The second initiative provides $5  million one ‑time Proposition  98 funding for the California Historical Society, in partnership with the California History/Social Science Project, to create a free online K ‑12 curriculum for history/social science.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/3

The 2018-19 May Revision: LAO Economic Outlook

May 12, 2018 - The federal administration currently is renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, an agreement that eliminates many barriers to the exchange of goods among the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. These negotiations are ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3829

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

Oct 2, 2018 - Extends Pediatric Mobile Optometry Services Funding for a Half Year. The spending plan provides up to $ 1  m illion General Fund to extend state funding for a pilot program that provides mobile optometry services to school children in Los Angeles County.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/6

Fiscal Outlook: Developmental Services

Nov 15, 2017 - DDS will operate at least five of these “safety net ” facilities (which could serve up to 25 people in total at one time) and two mobile crisis units incurring ongoing state costs. Although these ongoing operating costs are unknown at this time, we project that they will be in the low tens of millions of dollars annually by 2019-20, based on the current costs to operate acute crisis units at the DCs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3717

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

Oct 2, 2018 - In particular, the final budget package reduces payments for deferred maintenance by $ 700  m illion —relative to the Governor ’s proposal —freeing up a like amount of funding. Correspondingly, the final budget package reflects higher General Fund spending for homeless grants and the universities, among others.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/2

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 16, 2023 - In K ‑12, the budget also includes $300  million ongoing targeted to low ‑income schools with relatively high rates of student mobility within the school year, as well as $250  million one time for literacy coaches and reading specialists.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4788