The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - The administration ’s proposal to measure county performance against baselines using failure-to-prison rates from 2021 through 2023 has a key drawback. Specifically, including 2021 data is problematic because failure-to-prison rates during 2021 were artificially low due to factors related to the COVID-19 pandemic rather than county performance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Rethinking California's Reserve Policy

Apr 10, 2025 - For example, between 2020 ‑21 and 2021 ‑22, the formulas reduced the share of excess capital gains that benefit Proposition  2 by $8  billion. Saving All Excess Capital Gains Would Allow the State to Save More Revenue Peaks.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5028

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - For example, the Alisal Fire started on October 11, 2021, and continued until November 20, 2021. However, the Governor proclaimed a state of emergency related to the fire on July 1, 2022 —over seven months after the wildfire ended.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

Apr 3, 2025 - Between 2021 and 2023, the Legislature also added the following three new programs to DFPI ’s suite of responsibilities: California Consumer Financial Protection Program. Chapter  157 of 2020 (AB  1864, Lim ón) —known as the California Consumer Financial Protection Law —broadened DFPI ’s authority in various ways beginning January 1, 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - In 2021 ‑22, Most Direct Contract Providers Shifted to RMR. In 2021 ‑22, the state began funding most direct contract providers based on the RMR —the rate used for voucher ‑based providers —which reflects the 75th percentile of a county ’s market rates for child care identified in the 2018 survey.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - Recent One‑Time Spending on CTE Since 2021, the state has provided a total of $950  million ($700  million Proposition  98 General Fund and $250  million non ‑Proposition  98 General Fund) for various one ‑time CTE initiatives.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - 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 process for evaluating applications and negotiating agreements is similar to the tax credit program, but awards are paid directly to successful applicants upon meeting the agreed milestones.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement

Mar 11, 2025 - The program was created in the 2021-22 Budget Act with the intention to run as a pilot. There is no authorizing legislation that sets forth basic programmatic details, including state policy objectives.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

The 2025-26 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

Mar 10, 2025 - CLSF experienced two years of notable growth in 2021 ‑22 and 2022 ‑ 23 —growing by a combined 22  percent. In 2024 ‑25, CLSF expects total enrollment to decline by 39  FTE students, for a total of 1,128 FTE students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5014

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce 2018 ‑19 and 2021 ‑22 Supports establishing and expanding teacher and school counselor residency programs in special education, STEM, bilingual education, and kindergarten/transitional kindergarten.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012