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.
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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 2016-17 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 11, 2016 - Consolidating existing funding streams into one funding stream that has uniform application would simplify and streamline the existing system while potentially allowing for greater consistency in service.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3324

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - In addition, the budget makes a number of changes to realignment revenue streams, including the temporary redirection of health and mental health realignment revenues to pay for counties ’ IHSS costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/1

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: The State Appropriations Limit

Sep 30, 2022 - This year ’s budget built on these changes to expand the definition of subvention also to include a variety of other specific streams of funds, as listed in Government Code 7903. Under Chapter  48 of 2022 (SB  189, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review), subventions now include, for example, funds to counties for the administration of health and human services programs like
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4631

Managing California’s Cash

Sep 3, 2019 - As a result, in the case of the General Fund ’s share of the loan, the state has a well ‑defined plan for the stream of repayments. Effect of S B   84 o n State ’s Cash Balances. Senate Bill 84 i nitially affected the state ’s cash position by lowering internal borrowable resources by $ 6  b illion relative to what they would have been otherwise.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4092

The State Appropriations Limit

Apr 21, 2021 - Today, the state provides dedicated revenue streams to counties to pay for their share of costs for “realigned ” programs. Realigned programs are those programs administered at the local level but whose fiscal responsibility is shared between the state and counties (and in some cases, federal government).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4416