The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Broadband Infrastructure

Oct 27, 2021 - The remainder of the funding will be allocated based on the rural or urban county ’s proportionate share of households without access to internet service that provides at least a 100 megabits per second download speed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4467

The 2023-24 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Mar 20, 2023 - The FCC defines broadband as high ‑speed internet access that provides a minimum of 25 Megabits per second (Mbps) download speed and 3 Mbps upload speed. (Mbps measures how much data can be downloaded or uploaded over a network connection.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4747

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - It is unclear how the legal questions around the federal funding freeze will be resolved. Should the freeze be implemented, the state could be faced with losing access to federal TANF funding for weeks or longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - We examine how these cost drivers have changed alongside policy changes in the program and the state overall. Taken together, these cost drivers account for much of the overall growth in the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - To some extent, the benefit of additional funding will depend on how automation proceeds. As a result, it will be necessary to reevaluate any additional support provided over time as implementation proc eeds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - To what extent and how have DSS and program partners been able to address these issues? Is further Legislative guidance (or anything else) needed to address any remaining barriers? For programs that received one-time funding or augmentations, how sustainable are program gains?
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Mar 3, 2026 - The state has full discretion over whether and how to provide increases to the SSP portion of the grant. Until it was ended in 2011, the state had a statutory annual COLA. These COLAs generally reflected whole-grant COLAs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - Some nonreporting entities were unaware of how to achieve compliance with state IS policies, procedures, and standards, and requested that CDT provide certification and education opportunities to help existing IS and IT  staff learn how to improve their compliance efforts and train others.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Consider How to Maximize Medi ‑Cal Coverage for EBPs. In addition to considering expanding access to Title IV ‑E funding for additional child welfare prevention services, the Legislature also could consider how to maximize Medi ‑Cal coverage for eligible EBPs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - AHSC Merit to Moving Affordable Housing Awards to HDFC … Overall, having AHSC ’s affordable housing program at HDFC has the potential to simplify how developers build their capital stack. This is because, rather than having programs spread across SGC and other state entities, developers would be able to apply for funding at one place —HDFC .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154