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 2015-16 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 19, 2015 - Of the $5 million provided across the two years, $2 million is for updating the state –developed teacher performance assessment known as CalTPA to reflect the new state academic content standards, $1 million is for conducting a study to determine equivalent scores across the four teacher performance assessments approved by CTC, and the remaining $2 million is for developing the administrator performance assessment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3302

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 budget scores all of the settle ‑up payment as a Proposition  2 debt payment. Budget Package Enacts New Proposition   98 Certification Process. Certification is the process of finalizing the calculation of the minimum guarantee after the fiscal year is over.
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 - As the figure shows, however, the May Revision did not reflect excess revenues across 2020-21 and 2021-22 because the administration also proposed a significant amount of new SAL-excludable spending, much of which was scored to 2021-22, that reduced appropriations subject to the limit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4631

The 2022-23 Budget: California’s Fiscal Outlook

Nov 17, 2021 - After accounting for a 5.35 percent statutory cost ‑of ‑living adjustment (COLA), deposits into the Proposition 98 reserve, and various other adjustments, we estimate the Legislature has $9.5 billion in ongoing funds available for allocation in 2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4472

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

Oct 17, 2019 - Creates New Incentives for Adopting “Pro ‑Housing ” Policies. The budget package creates new incentives for cities and counties to adopt pro ‑housing policies. Cities and counties that adopt these policies would receive additional points in the scoring of their applications for certain state grant programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4083

Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - The increased IHSS cost per consumer estimated for 2015-16 and 2016-17 is due, in part, to the implementation of new federal overtime regulations, rising wages, and increased hours per consumer. State Aims to Reduce Reliance on Costly Group Home Foster Care Placements While foster children living in family settings outnumber foster children
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3511/3