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 2024-25 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2024 - Together, these scoring differences account for the roughly $27  billion difference in our office ’s accounting of the budget problem and the administration ’s scoring. While we would maintain that our approach more accurately reflects current law, these scoring differences do not reflect substantive differences in state ’s fiscal position.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4902

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

Oct 2, 2018 - The final budget reaches and then goes beyond full implementation. Specifically, the budget closes the gap to the target rates and funds the statutory 2. 71  p ercent cost ‑of ‑living adjustment (COLA) to those rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/3

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 2022-23 California Spending Plan: The State Appropriations Limit

Sep 30, 2022 - Final Budget Act. The final budget package does not reflect excess revenues across 2020-21 and 2021-22, nor does it include any unaddressed SAL requirements for 2022-23. In particular, as of July 2022, the administration estimates 2020-21 ended with appropriations subject to the limit above the limit by $16  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4631

The 2015-16 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 19, 2015 - As of spring 2015, CDE had selected a vendor (M Corp) and planned to award a contract in the summer following final approval and legislative notification of the revised project scope and cost, as required by budget language.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3302

Federal Spending in California

Jan 18, 2017 - Finally, this category includes the refundable portion of two major tax credits: the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which provides a refundable tax credit to low- to moderate-income working individuals and couples; and the Child Tax Credit, which provides refundable tax credits to eligible low-income families with children.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3531/3

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 17, 2019 - The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan (Final Version) $8,970 $2,158 Note: This table excludes $850 million in pension ‑related budget relief for school districts, which we describe in the section on programmatic spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4083

The 2020-21 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2020 - Of this, the administration scores $4. 3  b illion as budget solutions (the remainder offsets the budget problem in their baseline calculations). Remove or Modify $2.1   Billion in January Proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4232