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: 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

Cannabis Tax Revenue Update (2025 Q4) [EconTax Blog]

Feb 26, 2026 - Current LAO Estimate for 2025-26: $648 Million. We currently project cannabis tax revenues of $648 million in 2025-26. This is $36 million above the January Governor ’s Budget forecast for 2025-26. As shown in the figure below, the resulting 2026-27 revenue allocations are somewhat higher than the administration ’s January projections.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/851

Cannabis Tax Revenue Update (2025 Q4) [EconTax Blog]

Feb 26, 2026 - Current LAO Estimate for 2025-26: $648 Million. We currently project cannabis tax revenues of $648 million in 2025-26. This is $36 million above the January Governor ’s Budget forecast for 2025-26. As shown in the figure below, the resulting 2026-27 revenue allocations are somewhat higher than the administration ’s January projections.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/851

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - Contract Awarded September 2025: Scope Includes Two Departments. DOF notified JLBC on October 3, 2025 that it had entered a contract in an amount up to $20  million with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) on September 26, 2025 for the purpose of assisting and advising DOF on analyzing and creating process improvements within state government.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

Firearms and Ammunition Revenue Update (2025 Q4) [EconTax Blog]

Feb 18, 2026 - We described this tax in more detail in a 2025 post . Preliminary Total for Fourth Quarter of 2025: $16 Million. For firearm and ammunition excise tax returns filed for the fourth quarter of 2025, the total amount of tax due is $16 million .
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/849

Firearms and Ammunition Revenue Update (2025 Q4) [EconTax Blog]

Feb 18, 2026 - We described this tax in more detail in a 2025 post . Preliminary Total for Fourth Quarter of 2025: $16 Million. For firearm and ammunition excise tax returns filed for the fourth quarter of 2025, the total amount of tax due is $16 million .
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/849

The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - Additionally, as part of its Graduation Initiative 2025 (GI 2025), CSU campuses have worked to redesign courses and provide faculty development to build pedagogies that emphasize active learning to improve student outcomes, especially for underrepresen ted minority and first-generation students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - In addition to this mandatory withdrawal, the Governor ’s budget also includes mandatory deposits into the reserve in 2024 ‑25 and 2025 ‑26 due to higher estimated capital gains revenue, as well as a discretionary deposit in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

Changes in University of California General Fund Spending [EdBudget]

Feb 13, 2026 - b The 2025-26 Budget Act included intent language to provide UC with this augmentation.  c Reflects nonresident replacement funding of $30 million for 2026-27 as well as deferred ongoing nonresident replacement funding of $31 million from 2025–26 to 2026–27 included in the 2025-26 Budget Act. 
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/1044