The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

Apr 3, 2025 - Money Transmitters Program. Regulates, supervises, and examines businesses that receive money for transmission and sell or issue payment instruments and stored value. (These can include businesses that issue money orders and traveler ’s checks, as well as those that offer digital payments, such as PayPal and Stripe.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2019-20 Budget: The Governor’s Proposed Supplemental Pension Payment to CalPERS

Mar 4, 2019 - Figure 1 Major Funds Making Pension Contributions, by CalPERS Plan Share of Contributions State Highway Account 3 State Made a Supplemental Payment to CalPERS in 2017 ‑18. The 2017 ‑18 budget package authorized a plan to borrow $6 billion from the Pooled Money Investment Account—an account that holds the state’s cash—to make a one-time supplemental payment to CalPERS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3957

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - In addition, each applicant must propose to do one of the following: (1)  create 500 new full-time jobs, (2)  make an investment of at least $10  million, or (3)  create jobs or make an investment in a high-poverty or high-unemployment area.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - Identifying efficiencies in state government can result in budgetary savings without reducing service levels. However, it is difficult to achieve large levels of savings through operational efficiencies alone (that is, without changes to policy or service levels).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation [Publication Details]

Apr 3, 2025 - In this post, we assess administration-proposed trailer bill language that would increase certain fees charged by the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation and make recommendations to help ensure the department has the resources it needs to meet its oversight and regulatory mission.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5025

The 2016-17 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 22, 2016 - The GCP, administered by VCGCB, processes claims for money or damages against the state. Generally, anyone who wishes to file a lawsuit against the state or its employees must first go through the process administered under this program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3362

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: State Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank

Oct 5, 2020 - (A revolving loan fund means that the fund is replenished as borrowers repay their loans, and the program may continue making loans indefinitely without continued support.) The budget did not fund the new Climate Catalyst program, so it likely will not make any loans in 2020 ‑21.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4271

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2024 - Unserved areas and households are generally defined as those without access to broadband (as defined by the FCC). (In this brief, we use the terms households and locations interchangeably.) Underserved areas and households can be defined as those with access to broadband but without access to broadband at faster Mbps download and upload speeds with higher reliability and/or lower latency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4867

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposed Reductions to State Operations

May 21, 2024 - However, the proposal presumes a high level of inefficiency in state government by asserting that $1 in every $10 of state operations expenditures can be eliminated without affecting state services. Difficult to Achieve Savings Without Affecting State Employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4903

The 2023-24 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Mar 20, 2023 - Recent Major Funding Increase for Federal Broadband Programs Federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Included $65   Billion for Broadband Programs Nationwide. In November 2021, the federal IIJA was signed into law providing $65  billion for broadband programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4747