Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - Enrollment Count Methodology If State Switches to Enrollment, Recommend Using Enrollment Averaged Across the School Year. If the state switches to an enrollment ‑based student count, we recommend the state use enrollment averaged across the school year, similar to how ADA is currently calculated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - Recommendation Approve Both Capital Outlay Proposals, but Switch Funding Source From General Fund to MVA. We recommend the Legislature approve funding for both of the Governor ’s capital outlay proposals in 2026-27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - The report did provide a high-level summary of activities to date, including that BCG had reviewed CDCR ’s third-party contracts and identified opportunities for CDCR to (1)  renegotiate, consolidate, and eliminate contracts and (2)  reduce quantities purchased or switch to a different product type.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Part of the impetus to switch to a county MOE structure was to provide counties with fiscal relief as IHSS costs, largely outside of the counties control, continued to grow rapidly. Because nonfederal IHSS costs have grown faster than the MOE in recent years, the state has taken on an increasing share of IHSS program costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

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

Feb 27, 2026 - Under the updated transition plan, the state will switch from the regional approach to a statewide approach with two statewide network providers —one prime network service provider and a back ‑up. OES states that the switch to the statewide approach will eliminate the problematic interfaces and complexity while preserving system resiliency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

The 2026-27 Budget: California Public Utilities Commission’s Implementation of AB 1207

Feb 10, 2026 - For example, CPUC could elect to only change the specific months in which the credits are provided —switching them from April and October to four typically high-billed months (such as June, July, August, and September).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5120

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - These changes in average award amounts are due to switching the program from partial tuition coverage to a share of remaining cost of attendance. Proposal Governor Proposes Reducing Award Coverage to 17.5  Percent in 2026 ‑27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

The 2026-27 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 23, 2026 - Because tele ‑mental health could mitigate concerns about challenging working conditions at prisons, it could become more attractive for on ‑site providers to make the switch. To the extent on ‑site providers switch to remote work, CDCR would lose needed on ‑site providers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding [Publication Details]

Jan 6, 2026 - Chapter 442 of 2024 (SB 98, Portantino) requires our office to report on the effects of changing the student count methodology of the Local Control Funding Formula and other K-12 education programs from average daily attendance to student enrollment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5100