The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - Net Spending on Drugs Driven by Two Key Components. Medi ‑Cal pharmacy spending generally consists of two key components: Gross Payment for Drugs and Pharmacy Services. First, the state pays pharmacies for delivering drugs to patients.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 13, 2025 - Net changes in CCR costs for Home ‑Based Family Care Rates 14 9 Higher projected costs for foster care, Kin ‑GAP, ARC, and AAP payments under CCR. This increase is the net change reflecting higher monthly payments to caregivers due to the annual COLA, partially offset by projected caseload trends —which are estimated to be lower for foster care and ARC and roughly flat for AAP and KinGAP.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4962

Enrollment by Higher Education Segment [EdBudget]

Jan 27, 2025 - The change from 2024-25 reflects the net change after accounting for the proposed 0.5 percent systemwide enrollment growth in 2025-26, together with all other enrollment adjustments. CSU and UC numbers come from the segments and reflect actual, revised, or planned enrollment levels across the three years, respectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/910

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

Apr 11, 2025 - This is particularly problematic since the program would no longer be structured in a way to ensure it generates net state savings. Minimum Guarantee Disconnects Actual State Savings From Performance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - Net Increase in Budget ‑Year Funding Adjustments. The budget proposes a net increase of $81  million in adjustments in 2025 ‑26. Similar to the current ‑year, this net increase is primarily due to both a higher total prison population and an increase in the portion of the population with high health care needs relative to what was assumed in the 2024 ‑25 Budget Act .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate

Mar 19, 2025 - In this case, the net effect on revenue would be unclear. If the cause of the drop in the number of applications was due to factors outside of DRE control —such as real estate market or economic conditions resulting in fewer people working in real estate —then the revenue generated by additional increases in fees may not meet expectations either.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5019

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

Mar 6, 2025 - Net Effects of Continuous Coverage, Unwinding, and Unwinding Flexibilities Account for Up to Remaining 60,000 of Increase in Senior Caseload. Subtracting the at least 165,000  increase in the senior caseload due to eligibility changes from the 225,000 total seniors due to policy changes leaves up to 60,000  seniors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

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

Jan 13, 2025 - On a net basis, these items slightly improve the budget’s bottom line. Neither our November estimates nor the administration ’s estimates included any costs associated with the devastating wildfires in Southern California, as both were developed before those wildfires began.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: MCO Tax and Proposition 35

Feb 26, 2025 - For example, were the MCO tax to generate about as much net revenue in 2027 as it does today, we estimate only around one-third of the net revenue (rather than more than half under the Governor ’s budget) would be available for the General Fund offset.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4992

Rethinking California's Reserve Policy

Apr 10, 2025 - For example, in 2018 ‑19, the Legislature created the Budget Deficit Savings Account —which was used to temporarily hold a $2.6  billion optional deposit into the BSA —and the Safety Net Reserve —a reserve specifically dedicated to CalWORKs and Medi ‑Cal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5028