The 2026-27 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 12, 2026 - In  the budget window, for example, the administration proposes: (1)  reverting $71  million in unused EDDNext project funding early, and (2)  modifying In ‑Home Supportive Services (IHSS) eligibility to align with Medi ‑Cal, which provides $86  million in savings).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5101

The 2024-25 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2024 - We define a delay as an expenditure reduction that occurs in the budget window (2022-23 through 2024-25), but has an associated expenditure increase in a future year of the multiyear window (2025-26 through 2027-28).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4902

The 2025-26 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - Meanwhile, revenue growth over the outlook window is just above 4   percent —lower than its historical average largely due to policy choices that end during the forecast window. Taken together, we view it as unlikely that revenue growth will be fast enough to catch up to ongoing spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4939

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

May 17, 2025 - We define a delay as a proposal that reduces expenditures within the budget window (2023 ‑24 through 2025 ‑26) but shifts those costs to a future year in the multiyear period (2026 ‑27 through 2028 ‑29).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5044

The 2023-24 Budget: Multiyear Budget Outlook

May 23, 2023 - Under our estimates, the state faces operating deficits throughout the multiyear window, meaning revenues would need to come in above our projections for the budget to be balanced. While the revenues required to balance the budget are optimistic, but plausible, in the budget window, they are improbable in the out ‑years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4772

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - We define a delay as an expenditure reduction that occurs in the budget window (2021 ‑22 through 2023 ‑24), but has an associated expenditure increase in a future year of the multiyear window (2024 ‑25 through 2026 ‑27).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

^[PDF] A Review of the Teacher Layoff Process in California

.  August 15 “contingency window” is often not helpful.  Recommend moving layoff deadlines to later in the year and instituting a rolling emergency layoff window.  Move layoff deadlines to June 1 for initial notifi cation and August 1 for fi nal layoffs.  Replace current August layoff window with a new rolling, 45-day emergency layoff window.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/education/2012/A_Review_of_the_Teacher_Layoff_Process_in_California_032212.pdf

^[PDF] LAO 1999 Budget Analysis: Capital Outlay Chapter

While the problems with the existing windows and screens are appar- ent, we believe that the department, instead of undertaking this expensive ($2,900 per window) proposal to modify the window opening, should instead use the less costly alternative of replacing the windows in kind.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/cap_outlay/cap_outlay_anl99.pdf

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2024 - We define a delay as an expenditure reduction that occurs in the budget window (2022 ‑23 through 2024 ‑25), but has an associated expenditure increase in a future year of the multiyear window (2025 ‑26 through 2027 ‑28).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4825

The 2017-18 Budget: Proposition 98 Education Analysis

Feb 9, 2017 - Each spring, schools have a 12 ‑week window to administer the test to students in grades 3 through 8 and a seven ‑week window for grade 11. To ease the transition to the new system, schools can administer a pencil and paper version of the test during the first three years of implementation but must use the online version by spring 2018.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3549