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 2016-17 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 5, 2016 - The adjustments reflected here result from changes in the age of children served, choices families make about settings, and the number of hours per week children are in care.) The bulk of the decrease ($18  million) is due to overall CalWORKs child care caseload projections for 2016 –17 being revised downward.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3487/4

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - Support additional staff at Resource and Referral (R &Rs) agencies. The additional staff are to help foster families access services on an ongoing basis through the state ’s regular subsidized child care programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/4

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - The budget includes a number of changes to the IHSS cost sharing arrangement between the state and counties, including shifting some costs from the state to counties, establishing a new county IHSS maintenance ‑of ‑effort (MOE), and providing some General Fund assistance to counties to meet the new MOE.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/7

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

Jan 12, 2018 - These referrals have grown in recent years, resulting in roughly 850 o ffenders waiting to receive IST treatment. The budget proposes $ 131  m illion ($ 128  m illion General Fund) to work with counties to address the waitlist.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3731

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan

Sep 6, 2024 - To help address the budget problem, the spending plan makes a number of changes to one ‑time and temporary funding that was agreed to in previous budgets for climate, resources, and environmental programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4922

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

May 17, 2025 - The reason for this difference is mainly that the May Revision includes a number of proposals that generate budget savings that our office considers budget solutions, but the administration would count as workload budget changes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5044

California's Legislative Analyst's Office and the Value of Independence

Nov 15, 2024 - Second, even if the Legislature most often adopts the administration ’s revenue estimates in the budget, the alternative LAO numbers facilitate valuable deliberations. The administration ’s revenue estimates flow from the specific economic scenario that it deems most likely to unfold.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4938

The 2025-26 Budget: Undertaking Fiscal Oversight

Feb 24, 2025 - For example, programs typically have information about the rate of expenditure, number of people served, and services provided. While these metrics provide important insights into programs, they often only provide indirect evidence of programs ’ success.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4983