Despite Fiscal Forecasting Uncertainties, Multiyear Budget Planning Essential

May 27, 2021 - This manifests in operating deficits that persist through the outlook horizon (2024‑25). Adopting a budget with this combination of assumptions is inadvisable in our view. One reason is that—given the state’s balanced-budget requirement—doing so requires assuming that the multiyear budget projections are wrong.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4443

Mental Health Services Act: LAO Update: The Governor's Revised Behavioral Health Modernization Proposal

Aug 21, 2023 - The amendments not only set a statutory minimum level of funding for children and youth mental health services, but also include, unlike the initial proposal, transition-age youth (individuals 16 to 25 years of age) in those services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4792

2023-24 Changes in Proposition 98 Spending [EdBudget]

Nov 7, 2023 - LCFF = Local Control Funding Formula, COLA = Cost-of-living adjustment, COE = county office of education, ASES = After School Education and Safety Program, CCEE = California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, LCAP = Local Control and Accountability Plan, LGBTQ+ = lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and others.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/778

Issues That Could Impact Californians' Health Care Coverage in 2023 and Beyond [Publication Details]

Dec 16, 2022 - This brief looks at health care coverage in California; provides background on the drivers of the significant decline in the percentage of Californians without health care coverage over the last ten years; and discusses various issues that could impact the number of Californians with coverage, and how the type of coverage they have may change, in calendar year 2023 and beyond.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4654

The 2021-22 Budget: LAO Preliminary Comments on the May Revision Medi-Cal Budget

May 21, 2021 - The medically tailored meals pilot program is a three ‑year pilot, which began in 2018, to provide Medi ‑Cal participants with congestive heart failure medically tailored meals. The 2020 ‑21 Budget Act extended the pilot through calendar year 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4436

Update on State and School District Reserves [Publication Details]

Apr 5, 2020 - Update on State and School District Reserves [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4216

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 29, 2021 - This augmentation is in addition to an ongoing annual appropriation of $25  million General Fund for this purpose. Bringing Families Home Program Expansion. The budget includes $92.5  million General Fund in both 2021 ‑22 and 2022 ‑23 (with spending authority through 2024 ‑25) to expand the existing Bringing Families Home program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4468

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Debt Liabilities

Oct 17, 2019 - First, in each of the four fiscal years of the MOU (2019 ‑20, 2020 ‑21, 2021 ‑22, and 2022 ‑23), the Motor Vehicle Account will contribute $25  million —totaling to $100  million over the four years —to the highway patrol retirement benefit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4106

Breakdown of Local Control Funding Formula [EdBudget]

Aug 18, 2023 - Breakdown of Local Control Funding Formula [EdBudget] a Includes funding for Necessary Small Schools. b Increases the amount of funding districts receive through LCFF base, supplemental, and concentration grants. c Implemented as a special LCFF add-on. d Includes funding related to inter-district transfer students, support for the State Special Schools, the Education Protection Account, and $3.5 million to support the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/788

The 2022-23 Budget: California State University

Feb 15, 2022 - High School Graduates. The Department of Finance projects the number of high school graduates in California to increase by 0.6  percent in 2022 ‑23. All else equal, an increase in high school graduates in 2022 ‑23 would increase CSU freshman enrollment demand in 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4537