The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - Savings Proposals Generates $1.6 Billion School and Community College Settle‑Up Obligation in 2024‑25. The Governor’s budget proposes providing $1.6 billion less in total funding for schools and community colleges than the estimated constitutional minimum funding level for 2024‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

Building California’s Behavioral Health Infrastructure: Progress Update and Opportunities for the Proposition 1 Bond

Feb 5, 2025 - Effective January 1, 2023, this benefit provides, for a five ‑year period, certain community ‑based mobile crisis intervention services to Medi ‑Cal members. Spending on this benefit is estimated to be about $250  million in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - The 2024 ‑25 budget later reduced this amount to $25  million, reflecting updated available Opioid Settlements Fund  resources. Implementation Update Insulin Initiative Has Private Partner. In  February 2023, HCAI executed a contract with a nonprofit drug maker (Civica Rx) to produce a biosimilar insulin product.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - The 2022-23 budget included $300  million General Fund ongoing for state and local health departments, though this amount was reduced to $276  million General Fund ongoing as part of a budget solution in the 2024-25 budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

The 2025-26 Budget: MCO Tax and Proposition 35

Feb 26, 2025 - Under last year ’s spending plan, less MCO tax funding would be available in 2025-26 than in 2024-25 to offset General Fund spending, necessitating a General Fund backfill. This is because the augmentations were scheduled to ramp up in 2025 and 2026, requiring a larger share of MCO tax funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4992

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - The most notable increase (alone comprising 25  percent of the growth in overall spending over the period) was for specialty diabetes and weight loss drugs (known as Glucagon ‑Like Peptide ‑1, or GLP ‑1, agonists).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

The 2025-26 Budget: Understanding Recent Increases in the Medi-Cal Senior Caseload

Mar 6, 2025 - Recent Trends in the Senior Caseload Senior Caseload Began to Increase More Sharply in January 2024. Figure  6 shows the cumulative percentage change for each category of Medi ‑Cal enrollees from April 2020 (when the continuous coverage period began) through December 2024 (a year and a half after the beginning of the unwinding of the continuous coverage requirement).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

The 2025-26 Budget: CalAIM Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports Implementation Update

Mar 6, 2025 - The Governor ’s 2025 ‑26 budget proposes ECM spending at $956  million (total funds) and Community Supports spending at $231  million (total funds), a $67  million (7.5  percent) and $11  million (5  percent) increase over revised 2024 ‑25 levels, respectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5003

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget [Publication Details]

Jan 13, 2025 - Update (1/16/25): A set of tables detailing various solutions and proposals has been appended to the online version of this report. They are available using the HTML link above. On January 10, 2025, Governor Newsom’s administration presented its proposed state budget to the California Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - Update (1/16/25): A set of tables detailing various solutions and proposals has been appended to the online version of this report. They are available using the HTML link above. On January 10, 2025, Governor Newsom’s administration presented its proposed state budget to the California Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951/1