The 2015-16 Budget: Health Benefits for Retired State Employees - Health Benefits for Retired State Employees: Recommendations [Video]

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The 2015-16 Budget: Health Benefits for Retired State Employees - Health Benefits for Retired State Employees: Background [Video]

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The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - (The project added California State University as a mega processing department for this analysis because, although they are not a civil service state department, their payroll is processed by the current USPS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System

Feb 27, 2026 - If security and privacy protections need to be upgraded or added on later, who will p ay for these improvements? Is There Sufficient Oversight of This Project? What policies and governance models are needed to ensure that the transition to Next Generation 911  is  successful?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - EDDNext Is a Combination of IT and Non-IT Projects. The current EDDNext portfolio includes three IT projects that seek to modernize and/or replace existing IT systems and several non-IT projects that seek to improve the department ’s business processes, customer service, and information security.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

The 2022-23 Budget: California Department of Food and Agriculture

Feb 1, 2022 - The program was first established with a non ‑Proposition  98 General Fund appropriation of $8.5  million in 2020 ‑21. The 2021 ‑22 budget package committed $30  million in both 2021 ‑22 and 2022 ‑23 in non ‑Proposition  98 General Fund resources to fund additional rounds of grants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4510

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Among other criteria, vendors must demonstrate that their businesses are: Majority owned (by at least 51  percent) by one or more disabled veterans; or, in a business whose stock is publicly held, at least 51  percent or more of the stockholders are disabled veterans; Managed and controlled by one or more disabled veterans; and, Located in the United States (and not a branch or subsidiary of a non ‑U.S. business).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2025-26 Budget: State Departments’ Operational Efficiencies (Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12)

Feb 19, 2025 - Large Share of Assumed Total Savings From Unspecified “Other Funds. ” Why non-General Fund sources reflect a majority of the identified savings is unclear. Further, with the report provided to the Legislature not identifying non-General Fund funding sources beyond labeling them “other funds, ” it is not clear whether this category includes just special funds or
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 During the special session called by the Governor, the Legislature added Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 to the 2024-25 Budget Act providing up to $2.5  billion one-time from the General Fund for response and recovery costs related to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Mar 18, 2025 - If the Legislature approves this proposal, we recommend adding explicit requi rements to assess a grant applicant ’s inability to use tax credits. California Regional Initiative for Social Enterprises Grant Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018