The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure at May Revision

May 23, 2024 - Last-Mile Project Grants Delays $200  Million General Fund From 2025 ‑26 to 2027 ‑28. The May Revision proposes to delay $200  million General Fund for last-mile projects planned for appropriation in 2025 ‑26 by two fiscal years to 2027 ‑28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4906

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Many counties stated that they already have spent all or most of their state block grant dollars—prior to being able to claim any Title IV‑E matching funds for eligible EBPs. Because federal reimbursement for prevention services will require $1 local funding to match every $1 of federal monies claimed—and given the constraints and complexities of counties’ local
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2022-23 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 2, 2022 - Federal COVID ‑19 ‑related legislation effectively requires the state to suspend most Medi ‑Cal eligibility redeterminations for the duration of the national public health emergency declaration, which the Governor ’s budget assumes will last until June 30, 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4512

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Costs of the Program Have Increased Significantly Since Fiscal Year 2001 ‑02 … Looking back over the last couple of decades, as seen in Figure  1 , the IHSS program has experienced significant growth in total and General  Fund costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Additionally, trailer bill language (SB  119) suspends the county matching requirement that was required with some prior rounds of funding for the program. One-Time Funding for Foster Family Agencies ($23  Million General Fund, $31.5  Million Total Funds).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/6

The 2023-24 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Mar 20, 2023 - Last ‑Mile Projects. The state is providing grants to ISPs, public entities, and other organizations to fund last ‑mile infrastructure projects that connect unserved and underserved communities and households to middle ‑mile infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4747

The 2021-22 Budget: Preliminary Comments on the Governor’s May Revision Proposal for Broadband Infrastructure

May 24, 2021 - Last-Mile Broadband Projects —$2  Billion. To connect communities and households to the new open access middle-mile network, the administration proposes to create a new account within CPUC ’s CASF program to award grants for last-mile broadband infrastructure projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4440

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 26, 2024 - These initial two appropriations required a dollar-for-dollar match from local recipients, while the two $92.5  million augmentations appropriated in 2021-22 and 2022-23 waive the match requirement. Proposed budget language also would extend expenditure authority and the match waiver period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4855

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—Health and Human Services (HHS)‑Related Funding to Address Homelessness

May 17, 2018 - Participating counties and local organizations are required to provide matching funds. Initial LAO Comments and Suggested Questions. Upon our initial review of the Governor ’s Senior Home Safe pilot program, we have no major concerns with the proposal to raise for the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3842

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - State Poverty Rates Fluctuated Over Last Two Decades. As shown in Figure  2 , California ’s official individual and family (with children under age 18) poverty rates fluctuated over the last two decades.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057