The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - Proposal Governor Proposes to Provide General Fund Appropriation for BPPE in 2025-26. The Governor ’s budget provides a $10  million one-time General Fund appropriation for BPPE in 2025-26 (to be implemented through the next round of amendments to the 2025-26 Budget Act ).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - Learning Lab plans to issue another round of grants using its 2025-26 funding. Learning Lab indicates these grants will operate through June 2028 and will focus on semiconductor design, public interest technology, quantum science, and agriculture technology.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - The Governor’s budget proposes to reduce funding for General Child Care slots by $98 million relative to the 2025‑26 budget package. These reductions are mainly due to a decline in federal and Proposition 64 funding in 2025‑26 and 2026‑27 and would eliminate funding for approximately 4,200 slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Proposals

Mar 19, 2026 - California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Resources. The office coordinates the state-level guidance for and review of CEQA-related documents, including maintaining a statewide clearinghouse of CEQA environmental documents.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - To address this, the 2021, 2022, and 2023 budget acts each provided one-time funding of $120  million for a grant program to supplement the tax credit. The Governor ’s budget proposals in 2024 and 2025 each included $60  million to fund the grant program but were not included in the final budget act due to projected deficits in those years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance

Mar 18, 2026 - For example, it reviews and approves district applications for certain federal grants, officially numbers all new charter schools, and acts as the state ’s liaison to the U.S. Department of Education for various federal programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - Congress and the state Legislature established the backbone for policies through laws such as the federal Clean Water Act and state Porter ‑Cologne Water Quality Control Act. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), and other agencies then implement these laws by adopting regulations to establish and enforce specific requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - The state receives an enhanced federal reimbursement rate for many IHSS recipients who receive services as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act expansion (90  percent federal reimbursement rate) and the Community First Choice Option waiver (56  percent federal reimbursement rate).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - State Allocated First Round of Proposition  2 Bond Funds in 2025-26. The 2025-26 budget provided $142  million in Proposition  2 bond funding for community college capital outlay projects. Of this amount, $55  million was for the preliminary plans and working drawings phases of 29 new projects selected using the above scoring system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services [Publication Details]

Mar 13, 2026 - Analyzes the Governor’s budget for the Department of Developmental Services (DDS), with a focus on a budget proposal to continue planning the proposed Life Outcomes Improvement System (LOIS) information technology project, implementation of new H.R.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5157