The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project [Publication Details]

Mar 7, 2025 - This post provides issues for legislative consideration, as well as questions for the Legislature to ask, ahead of an expected May Revision budget proposal to fund development and implementation of the California State Payroll System information technology project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5011

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

Mar 7, 2025 - The approved baseline cost of the CSPS IT project is about $1.2  billion, of which roughly 60  percent (or $700  million) is General Fund and 40  percent (or $450  million) is from the Central Service Cost Recovery Fund —a fund that recovers the costs incurred by certain agencies and departments for services shared by nearly all departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

Preliminary Assessment of Significant Changes to State's Technology Project Approval and Oversight Processes

Apr 29, 2025 - GenAI = generative artificial intelligence; POC = proof of concept; CalHHS = California Health and Human Services Agency; Caltrans = California Department of Transportation; CDPH = California Department of Public Health; CDTFA = California Department of Tax and Fee Administration; DOF = Department of Finance; EDD = Employment Development Department; and HCD = Department of Hous ing and Community Development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5034

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 13, 2025 - (FM case s are those where a youth has been the subject of a maltreatment allegation but the child welfare agency determines the youth is able to remain safely at home, with any necessary interventions.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4962