Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Advantages to the bidder include bid price adjustments (in the case of lowest price contracts) or point increases (in the case of contracts awarded based on scoring crite ria). For example, in contracts awarded based on the lowest price, a bidder’s “price” can be adjusted downward for the purpose of awarding the contract.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: State Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank

Oct 5, 2020 - Some small businesses in California are ineligible for these programs because their owners may have low credit scores, are undocumented immigrants, or face other barriers to receiving loans from the federal government and traditional lenders.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4271

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 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

The 2018-19 Budget: California Military Department

Feb 6, 2018 - However, the California School Dashboard —which provides information on how schools and districts are performing on test scores, graduation rates and other measures of student success —shows mixed results for student outcomes at OMI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3743

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure at May Revision

May 23, 2024 - The elimination of this proposal is scored as one of the solutions to the budget problem facing the state in 2024 ‑25 and projected budget deficit in 2025 ‑26. However, the May Revision does maintain the $250  million General Fund included in CDT ’s state operations budget in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4906

The 2019-20 Budget: Office of Emergency Services

Mar 13, 2019 - OES has flexibility on which projects to recommend that FEMA fund, but generally recommends that FEMA fund the highest scoring applications based on the criteria the department has established. Funds are obligated by FEMA upon approval of each individual project, and generally provided on a reimbursement basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3961

Evaluation of the Property Tax Postponement Program

Oct 8, 2018 - However, these loans must be repaid (in many cases, starting immediately) and not all homeowners have enough income or sufficiently high credit scores to access them. Reverse Mortgages. Reverse mortgages are a type of home equity loan that are available only to seniors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3885