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

Mar 11, 2025 - The largest of these programs are Cal Grants and MCS. Cal Grants provide both tuition and nontuition assistance to low-income students at public and private universities in California. Students with financial need enrolled at California Community Colleges (CCC) receive tuition waivers through another aid program, but they can receive Cal Grants for nontuition costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement [Publication Details]

Mar 11, 2025 - This post contains assessments and recommendations related to two proposed budget augmentations: the College Corps program and a new Belonging Campaign.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5015

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - For state entities using the Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal), such notifications occur automatically, with 3,070 issued in 2024. It is unclear how consistently state entities not using FI$CAL are issuing notifications.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Security Proposals

Mar 23, 2023 - Two Main Cal-CSIC Proposals Account for Half of Proposed Funding. CalOES ’ proposed Cal-CSIC augmentations and “Cal-CSIC School Cybersecurity (AB  2355) ” proposal account for half of the proposed funding —$34.1  million: Cal-CSIC Augmentations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4748

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - …But Only Some Sought Cal ‑CSIC and CDT ’s Guidance on Cal ‑Secure Implementation. Although many nonreporting entities cited Cal ‑Secure as one of the frameworks guiding their cybersecurity initiatives and technical capability implementations, only some of them said in their interviews that they actively sought guidance from Cal ‑CSIC and CDT on Cal ‑Secure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - BCG is expected to develop and pilot an analytical model that could save money in Medi-Cal by detecting pre-payment fraud, reducing improper claims, and flagging areas of possible waste and abuse. Workstream 5: DHCS —Hospital Financing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Some of the largest budget solutions in the June budget package involved the MCO tax, a tax on health plans that supports the Medi ‑Cal program. Last year ’s budget notably increased the size of the MCO tax, generating more revenue for Medi ‑Cal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Sep 16, 2022 - The 2021-22 budget provided Cal ICH $1  billion General Fund for HHAPP for two consecutive years. The 2022-23 budget continues this practice by providing $1  billion General Fund in 2023-24 for HHAPP.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4622

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 19, 2023 - Budget-related legislation transfers the administration of HHAPP from Cal ICH to HCD beginning in the 2023-24. Intent language identifies a legislative interest in enacting future legislation to further focus Cal ICH ’s role in providing statewide policy coordination and development by transferring grant administration responsibilities to HCD.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4808

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - Health and Behavioral Health Budget Reintroduces the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) Proposal. As a part of the January 2020 ‑21 budget, the Governor proposed a large number of Medi-Cal reforms collectively known as CalAIM.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309