The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - California Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Empowerment (HOPE) for Children Trust Account Program Transfers $40  Million from Fund Providing Investment Accounts for Foster Youth to General Fund. The 2022-23 budget provided $100  million and $15  million ongoing to the California HOPE for Children Trust Account Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Mar 18, 2025 - To understand program impacts and to prioritize future investments, employm ent opportunities can be randomly offered to eligible participants when there are more candidates than jobs available. Using program and state administrative data, third-party evaluators can then follow both participants and randomly rejected candidates to determine whether the program improves outcomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

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

Mar 11, 2025 - CSAC regularly interacts with campus financial aid offices in the administration of state fin ancial aid programs. California Volunteers has created its own staff and infrastructure to support College Corps, which largely operates outside this existing higher education system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

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

Apr 3, 2025 - These include the following: Investment Program. Regulates the offer and sale of certain financial securities and franchises, and licenses and examines broker-dealers and investment advisors. (Financial securities are tradable financial assets, such as stocks and bonds.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2024 - The main purpose of this RFI2 solicitation is to identify opportunities for joint ‑build construction projects, leases, and/or purchases in place of the remaining standalone Caltrans construction projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4867

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - The Legislature could consult with the Governor ’s office, OES, local governments, and other practitioners and experts to determine a reasonable time period and approach for renewing states of emergency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - Another option the Legislature could consider, particularly for smaller nonreporting entities with fewer procurement staff but consistent interaction with DGS for routine IT purchases, is to request that CDT and DGS evaluate their current division of IT procurement responsibilities and identify opportunities to streamline routine IT procurements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - The state sells bonds to investors to receive “up-front ” funding for projects and then repays investors, with interest, over a period of time. When and Why the State Uses Bonds to Finance Infrastructure Projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization

Feb 25, 2025 - In particular, the administration intends to make public a plan by spring 2025 and, consistent with statute, provide the Legislature an opportunity to review and decide on the plan by mid- to late-summer 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

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