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

Mar 11, 2025 - Though we recognize the benefits College Corps can provide to students and communities, the program entails significant administrative costs, and students can already par ticipate in volunteer opportunities and receive financial aid through the state ’s established higher education system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

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

Apr 3, 2025 - Money Transmitters Program. Regulates, supervises, and examines businesses that receive money for transmission and sell or issue payment instruments and stored value. (These can include businesses that issue money orders and traveler ’s checks, as well as those that offer digital payments, such as PayPal and Stripe.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California

Nov 5, 2020 - For example, school closures disrupted how students would traditionally receive free or reduced price meals during the school day. Both the federal and state government provided additional money so local educational agencies could continue providing meals to students who are now learning remotely.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4292

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - Although, as we understand it, many of the changes are unlikely to require law changes and may be more administrative in nature, the Legislature should have a high-level understanding of how those changes may impact programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - Some Subsidized Employment Programs Can Be Effective for Some Populations … While there are a variety of program models for subsidized employment, some have stronger evidence of success than others. Overall, most programs increase employment and earnings among participants while receiving a subsidy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - Cash, Food, and Medical Assistance Can Offset Housing Costs a (In Millions) Free and reduced price lunch 2,838 $4,097 a Where possible, we tried to identify funding targeting children and families. b Earned Income Tax Credit amounts reflect combination of federal tax year data and state fiscal year data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - These closures affected an average of about 950,000 students per year in 2017‑18 through 2019‑20. Schools and child care providers will need to plan for how they can maintain continuity of education and services—particularly for more vulnerable and impacted students—as climate change disruptions become more frequent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - Specifically, we recommend the Legislature set enrollment expectations for each segment, decide how much to provide for graduation and other core student support initiatives, and determine how much to provide for compensation increases and other operating costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2017-18 Budget: The State Controller’s Office Unclaimed Property Program

Feb 24, 2017 - The value of a security can go up —or down —after it is liquidated to cash by the SCO. On average, certain owners may realize gains as a result of the 18 ‑month waiting period as those securities rise in value or earn income in the form of interest, dividends, and other payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3584

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

Oct 17, 2019 - Under the state ’s current policy to pay for retiree health benefits, (1)  the state and employees each contribute an amount of money —established as a percentage of pay through the collective bargaining process —to prefund the benefits employees earn today and (2)  the state pays the costs of the benefit for current retirees on a pay-as-you-go basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101