Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Approximately 380,000 California veterans (about 30  percent) have a service ‑connected disability, which is defined as a disability that was caused (or made worse) by military service. Of California ’s service ‑disabled veterans, nearly half (approximately 174,000) have disability ratings exceeding 70  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review [Publication Details]

Dec 2, 2025 - As required by Chapter 80 of 2020 (SB 588, Archuleta), this brief reviews California’s Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE) program. Specifically, it focuses on policies and practices designed to prevent program abuse and noncompliance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5095

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure at May Revision

May 23, 2024 - The proposal also requests 31 new, permanent positions for CPUC to administer the program, and provisional budget bill language to (1)  encumber and expend the funds through June 30, 2031 and (2)  re-appropriate some unspent initial BEAD planning funds for encumbrance or expenditure through November 30, 2027.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4906

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget includes $100  million one-time General Fund to backfill anticipated reductions in federal VOCA funding. This amount is similar to the amount provided in 2024-25 ($103  million). These funds support various OES victim grant programs and are intended to allow existing programs to maintain current service levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - DOF notified JLBC on October 3, 2025 that it had entered a contract in an amount up to $20  million with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) on September 26, 2025 for the purpose of assisting and advising DOF on analyzing and creating process improvements within state government.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

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

Mar 18, 2025 - In addition, each applicant must propose to do one of the following: (1)  create 500 new full-time jobs, (2)  make an investment of at least $10  million, or (3)  create jobs or make an investment in a high-poverty or high-unemployment area.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - CHP receives roughly 60  percent of the MVA revenues ($3  billion) annually, with most of the remainder supporting activities at the Department of Motor Vehicles. Growth in CHP ’s expenditures, however, has been outpacing the MVA ’s revenue increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

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

Apr 3, 2025 - However, the accounting firm ’s evaluation of DFPI ’s established programs found an additional $30  million in unfunded balances across established subprograms that are not in the administration ’s proposed bill.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

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

Feb 25, 2025 - The administration then intends to forward the plan to the Legislature 30 days later. Figure  3 shows the time line based on our discussions with the administration and current law. Indicates an Approved Reorganization Would Be Phased in Over Multiple Years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Sep 23, 2021 - Main Street Credit Legislature Created $100  Million Credit for Businesses Hurt by Pandemic in 2020. In September 2020, the Legislature instituted the Main Street Small Business Tax Credit, which provides income or sales tax credits to firms with 100 or fewer employees that added jobs in the second half of 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4452