The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - Accordingly, the August session budget bill provides $15  million Health Care Affordability Reserve Fund in 2025-26 for the first year of payments. Appendix
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 23, 2023 - The 2022-23 Budget Act included one-time General Fund support to eliminate the delay beginning in 2022-23. The spending plan shifts the elimination of the delay in provider payment processing until 2024-25, which frees up $378  million one-time General Fund in 2022-23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4810

The 2025-26 Budget: Understanding Recent Increases in the Medi-Cal Senior Caseload

Mar 6, 2025 - This translates to about 23,000 seniors, or less than 15 percent, of the at least 165,000 additional seniors due to eligibility expansions. At Least 112,000 of Senior Increase Appears to Be Due to Asset Test Elimination.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

Building California’s Behavioral Health Infrastructure: Progress Update and Opportunities for the Proposition 1 Bond

Feb 5, 2025 - From 2008 ‑10 to 2018 ‑20, rates of suicide in California among youth aged 15 through 24 increased by more than 20  percent. These troubling trends have accelerated since the COVID ‑19 pandemic and have made improving California ’s behavioral health system a priority for the state ’s policymakers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 24, 2022 - The spending plan includes $30  million one-time General Fund for tribal investments, including $15  million to support the construction of a regional wellness center for the Yurok Tribe and another $15  million for the construction of The Village San Francisco.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4642

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - For example, the spending share of residential services has decreased from 46  percent to 38  percent, while the spending share of support and training services has increased from 8  percent to 15  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - The 2019-20 Budget Act provided a $15  million one-time General Fund to support the Networking California Sickle Cell Care Initiative which established a number of sickle cell disease centers across the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

The 2023-24 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 16, 2022 - In a typical year, the General Fund covers a little more than 20  percent of total Medi ‑Cal costs, with federal funds and other state and local funds respectively covering the remaining 65  percent and 15  percent of total costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4649

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - Specifically, as of the end of the first full year of redeterminations, total Medi-Cal caseload stood at nearly 15  million —more than two million enrollees greater than was projected by the administration in May 2023 and our office in November 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4941

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - Since the passage of the 2022-23 budget, there have been 58 graduates of this program. In the Governor ’s proposed May Revision, approximately $3.4  million for these programs is proposed for reversion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056