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

Mar 18, 2025 - Natcast plans to ramp up the facility ’s design and prototyping work over time, once it renovates the facility to enable those types of activities. Governor ’s Proposal $25  Million for Semiconductor Design Facility.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

The 2025-26 Budget: Office of Emergency Services—Request for Reappropriation of Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Fund Resources

Feb 24, 2025 - OES indicates that reimbursements have picked up recently as more agencies become familiar with the program. At an estimated $4.5  million through February 19, 2025 —reimbursement rates appear on track to be higher in 2024-25 —but still well below authorized levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4982

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

Mar 11, 2025 - College Corps provides each participating college student with up to $10,000 of financial aid for completing 450 hours of community service. The program currently partners with 45 campuses and serves about 3,400 students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - If so, this could make noncompliance more lucrative for businesses, leading to lower compliance, which in turn could drive up the citation rate and seizure rate per inspection. AB  3218 BCP Governor Proposes $3.5  Million in 2025-26 for CDTFA to Implement New Laws.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

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

Apr 3, 2025 - The independent assessment of DFPI ’s financial condition identified annual salary adjustments (agency-wide) and start-up costs for new programs as the main sources of increased expenditures at DFPI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Any level above zero is up to the discretion of the Legislature. Recent budgets have set the SFEU between $3.5  billion and $4  billion. The Governor proposes a $4.5  billion SFEU balance for the end of 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate

Mar 19, 2025 - The department has the authority to increase fees up to the statutory caps without additional legislative authority. However, it is unclear if an additional fee increase would resolve the remaining gap between revenues and expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5019

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - By type, wildfires and storms made up the majority of these proclamations. Of the 295 emergencies, wildfires represented 130 (44  percent) while storms represented 86 (29  percent) as shown in Figure  1.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - The remaining five roles —the reporting coordinator, scope/capability subject matter experts, sponsor, technical coordinator, and training coordinator —require partial time commitments by one or more staff that vary between several hours per calendar quarter to up to 50  percent of available time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2025-26 Budget: State Departments’ Operational Efficiencies (Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12)

Feb 19, 2025 - The enacted budget assumed General Fund savings of $2.2  billion in 2024-25 and $2.8  billion ongoing beginning in 2025-26 to reduce General Fund state operations expenditures by up to 7.95  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975