The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care

Apr 15, 2024 - Additional funds for new CCTR slots are generally awarded to providers through a competitive RFA process. The department generally releases an RFA in the fall following the legislative approval of additional funds to award new CCTR slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4893

The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare

May 24, 2024 - However, counties have expressed that realigned funds are insufficient for them to conduct what they view as new and expanded resp onsibilities under RFA, compared to prior foster family approval processes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - Recommend Allowing Extension for Funding for Emergency Caregivers Prior to RFA. As we expressed during the previous budget cycle, we remain concerned that statute dictates funding for pre ‑approval funding will decrease to 90   days —without any option for extension —while average RFA processing time continues to exceed 90  days.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4364

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - Specifically, budget language amends statute to allow state assistance to be provided to emergency caregivers prior to their completion of the RFA process, for up to 120 days (or 365 days in cases where a good cause extension is warranted) on an ongoing basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/4

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Notification Practices are designed to ensure that the state alerts DVBEs when they have been named as part of a bid. This helps the state catch vendors who might be misleading state procurement officials into thinking a DVBE subcontractor is involved in the bid when the DVBE is unaware they have been named.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals and Program Implementation Updates

Feb 22, 2022 - RFA and Placement Prior to Approval (PPA). To become eligible to provide care to foster youth and receive foster care maintenance payments, households must complete the RFA process. This process is universal for all foster caregivers, whether they are relatives or non ‑relative foster families, although relatives may begin providing care to foster youth on an emergency basis prior to formal approval as a resource family.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4558

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 9, 2022 - DSS indicated that a joint request for applications (RFA) portal for CCE capital expansion projects and BH ‑CIP shovel ‑ready projects will be launched February 15 for counties, cities, tribes, non ‑profits, and for ‑profit organizations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - Additionally, DSS plans to award the majority of new slot funding through the 2022 ‑23 RFA process, meaning the earliest these funds would be available to GCC providers is April 2023. We describe each of these two reasons in more detail below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672

The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - Namely, those tax credits could have been awarded to another applicant who would have been more likely to achieve their milestones. However, as we discuss next, this has not been the case in the last few years of the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - For example, expenditures for the home-based family care rate —namely the monthly care and supervision payments made to foster caregivers and for kinship and adoptive placements —are budgeted to increase by around $20  million General Fund ($33  million total funds) in 2025-26 (9  percent increase relative to 2024-25), due largely to the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/6