The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Final Year of Funding for California Education Learning Lab. The budget package includes a final year of funding totaling $5.5  million from the General Fund for the California Education Learning Lab, with the intention to eliminate the program beginning in 2026-27 (which will achieve $4  million in ongoing savings).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2017-18 Budget: The Governor's Cannabis Proposals

Feb 14, 2017 - DPH ’s Proposal Funds IT and Redirects Positions to BMC for Licensing of Testing Labs ($1   Million) . The Governor ’s budget proposes a net increase of $1  million for DPH in 2017 ‑18, an amount that would decrease in future years and be a net reduction to its budget of $172,000 beginning in 2019 ‑20.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/3556

The 2021-22 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Spending Authorities

Mar 2, 2021 - The 2021-22 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Spending Authorities Statewide testing, primarily at the Valencia Branch Lab, including specimen collection. $820.5 Testing, treatment, surge capacity, and vaccination of staff and incarcerated persons. 281.3 Governor ’s Office of Emergency Services California Disaster Assistance Act grant funds to reimburse local
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4393

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California

Nov 5, 2020 - This means that some of the state ’s plans to increase testing and expand testing sites and labs will eventually include significant payments by private insurers to cover costs. (This post and all of the figures exclude funds that private sources spend directly in response to COVID-19, for example, for medical treatment for individuals diagnosed with COVID-19.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4292

The 2022-23 Budget: Office of Planning and Research Budget Proposals

Feb 9, 2022 - California Education Learning Lab and Golden State Awards Background State Has Provided Higher Education Innovation Awards. In every budget cycle from 2014 ‑15 to 2020 ‑21, Governors have proposed one ‑time grant initiatives to support innovative practices at the state ’s public higher education institutions that improve student outcomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4523

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - The COVID ‑19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in state and local public health systems —in staffing levels, expertise, lab capacity, and flexibility. Public health systems previously have been funded largely with categorical sources of funding —federal grants and state special funds —or one ‑time General Fund for specific purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

The 2019-20 Budget: Department of State Hospitals

Feb 13, 2019 - The department also indicates that courts have com plained about the quality of the work carried out by some clinicians. Reduces Quality of Care. This workload takes away time clinicians could otherwise spend treating their patients.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3936

Evaluation of the Statewide Project Management Office

Dec 7, 2017 - This allowed the PMO to test the potential of the centralized project management approach and build the reputation and capacity of the office gradually, with the intention of scaling up to larger, more com plex projects once the office was more established.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3723