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 2018-19 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 12, 2018 - The proposed online college is another significant proposal, raising several key issues. The governance structure of the new college, its program offerings, and its relationship to existing online community college programs will be particularly important to consider.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3731

California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

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The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan

Oct 16, 2025 - In addition to this report, we will release a series of issue ‑specific, online posts that give more detail on the major actions in the budget package. The Budget Problem For the third year in a row, the state faced a budget problem, or deficit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5079

Despite Fiscal Forecasting Uncertainties, Multiyear Budget Planning Essential

May 27, 2021 - Many times, such surpluses or deficits are one time and not indicative of the state ’s structural budget condition. Moreover, many programmatic initiatives take effect in January —midway through the fiscal year —or take several years to be fully implemented.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4443

The 2022-23 Budget: Initial Comments on the State Appropriations Limit Proposal

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The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - In the coming weeks, we will analyze the plan in more detail and release many additional issue ‑specific budget analyses. Budget Roughly Balanced In November, we found that the underlying condition of the state ’s budget was roughly balanced.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor's May Revision

May 17, 2025 - In many areas, our understanding of the proposals will continue to  evolve.) The Budget Problem In this section, we present our estimates of the budget problem that the Governor addressed in the May Revision, focusing on the three ‑year budget window under consideration: 2023 ‑24 to 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5044

LAO Multiyear State Budget Outlook

May 19, 2017 - As a result of these factors, and many others, the state’s actual budget situation in several years from now will be different than the outlooks presented above. Subscribe | California State Legislature | Online Voter Registration | Privacy Policy | Accessibility Legislative Analyst's Office | The California Legislature's Nonpartisan Fiscal and Policy Advisor 925 L Street, Suite 1000 Sacramento, CA 95814 | (916) 445-4656
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