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

Jan 13, 2025 - The underlying budget dynamics today are particularly challenging for three reasons. First, revenues have not caught up with expenditures. Second, under our estimates, expenditure growth exceeds estimated revenue growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

Los Angeles' Bid for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics

Nov 10, 2016 - Beyond Southern California, the plan is for some preliminary soccer matches to occur in selected cities across the United States. The Olympic torch relay also may cross the country and many parts of California, as it did in 1984.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3506

The 2017-18 Budget: Secretary of State Spring Finance Letter

Apr 25, 2017 - The Legislature could formally require the Secretary of State to report its f indings and recommend possible improvements to SB  450 following the state ’s experience with the new voting model. How Should The State Use the Remaining 2009 Settlement Funds?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3656

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Advantages to the bidder include bid price adjustments (in the case of lowest price contracts) or point increases (in the case of contracts awarded based on scoring crite ria). For example, in contracts awarded based on the lowest price, a bidder’s “price” can be adjusted downward for the purpose of awarding the contract.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - The bonds will be repaid over time using MH SA funds. NPLH has supported 247 projects and 7,852 housing units are anticipated. As of August 2022, 119 projects are under construction, 30 projects have been completed, and 498 units have units have been completed and are occupied.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

The 2021-22 Budget: California Arts Council

Feb 1, 2021 - How Would the Matching Requirement Work? At this time, there is very little information available on how the proposed matching requirement would work. This includes who would provide the match and how much of a match would be required.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4337

The 2017-18 Budget: Considering the State's Role in Elections

Mar 30, 2017 - A False Start in Modernizing California Voting Equipment Bond Money Provided to Counties on Matching Basis to Replace Voting Equipment. Voters approved Proposition  41 in 2002. The proposition allowed the state to sell $200  million in general obligation bonds to assist any county in the purchase of new voting equipment that was certified by the Secretary of State.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3634

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

Oct 5, 2020 - Some small businesses in California are ineligible for these programs because their owners may have low credit scores, are undocumented immigrants, or face other barriers to receiving loans from the federal government and traditional lenders.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4271

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Consumer Affairs Organizational Improvement Office

Feb 24, 2023 - Recommendations Reduce Funding and Positions to Match Current Levels on a Limited-Term Basis. We recommend that the Legislature reduce the proposed funding and positions to match the current authorized levels of $894,000 and five positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4704

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 29, 2021 - In addition, the 2021 ‑22 spending plan includes budget-related legislation that provides the programs above broader eligibility for the use of funding and temporarily waives requirements that counties provide matching funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4468