The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Policy and Other Actions Includes Legislative Intent Regarding Master Plan for Developmental Services Implementation and Reporting. In March  2025, the administration published the Master Plan for Developmental Services following several months of committee and stakeholder meetings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/1

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Policy and Other Actions Codifies the Master Plan for Developmental Services. The Governor ’s budget proposed that DDS develop a Master Plan for Developmental Services with the intent to improve the experience of individuals and families receiving developmental services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/1

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - Without a methodology that links funding to workload, funding could become insufficient or exceed what is required for efficient operations without a clear way of assessing what adjustments are needed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Create LTSS Data Dashboard linked with statewide nursing home and HCBS utilization, quality, demographics, and cost data. 4.0 Total $4,470.7 a Reflects HCBS Spending Plan activities and funding levels as of April 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/6

Recent Congressional Action on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

Jan 23, 2018 - This latest Congressional action results in lower state costs relative to what was assumed in the Governor ’s budget. Specifically, for the last half of 2017 ‑18 and all of 2018 ‑19, the state will pay 12  percent of program costs, rather than the 35  percent assumed in the Governor ’s budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3734

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Health and Human Services

Oct 17, 2019 - In June 2019, the Governor signed an executive order establishing a formal process for the creation of a Master Plan for Aging. The Master Plan, in part, will address the sustainability of state long-term care programs and how to better coordinate programs that serve seniors, their families, and caregivers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4104

The 2022-23 Budget: Update on Home- and Community- Based Services Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2022 - A number of the approved HCBS enhancements support the implementation of various state plans, including the Master Pla n for Aging and Department of Development Services ’ (DDS) rate model implementation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4524

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - Contrary to these expectations, the latest data show CalWORKs caseload decreased rapidly at least through the first 18 months following the pandemic. Accordingly, the new spending plan estimates CalWORKs averaged a new historic low of about 310,000 in 2020 ‑21 and projects it to grow back to its pre-pandemic level of about 360,000 in 2021 ‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/2

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - Additionally, the spending plan eliminated the statutory language that both instituted the 7  percent reduction in IHSS service hours and linked the IHSS service hour restoration to the 2016 MCO tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/4

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - For example, according to the state plan, Nurse ‑Family Partnership currently is operated (primarily by county public health departments) in 22 counties, and specially trained Master ’s level therapists offer Parent ‑Child Interaction Therapy in 40 cities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106