Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - In 2023 ‑24, for example, 85 of 150  mandatory reporters (57  percent) met the DVBE participation goal while 58 (39  percent) did not. (Seven, or 5  percent, made no reportable awards.) Ensuring Only Eligible Vendors Participate Has Been a Focus Ensuring That Only Eligible Vendors Participate Has Been an Historical Challenge With Violations Ranging From Inadvertent to Fraudulent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2021-22 Budget: California Arts Council

Feb 1, 2021 - CAC indicates that funding would be allocated to grantees representing all 58 c ounties and that it would target funds to certain communities most impacted by COVID ‑19, including historically marginalized communities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4337

The 2026-2027 Budget: California Cannabis Control Appeals Panel Permanent Funding Request

Feb 11, 2026 - Funding for CCAP was reauthorized twice (in 2020-21 and 2023-24), each time on a three-year, limited-term basis. The revised 2025-26 budget for CCAP includes $3.4  million CCF and 13 positions. Provisional Licensees Did Not Have Appeal Rights, Which Contributed to Dearth of Cases Between 2017-18 and 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5119

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - The number of inspections conducted in 2022-23 and 2023-24 was 52  percent lower than in 2020-21 and 2021-22. Over the same period, the number of citations issued dropped by 24  percent. These drops are particularly striking given that staff concerns about COVID-19 exposure likely diminished substantially over that period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 19, 2023 - The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness The 2023-24 California Spending Plan Housing and Homelessness Significant, Prior-Year Funding Augmentations Generally Maintained.   Previously enacted budgets authorized significant, albeit primarily one-time and temporary, funding for housing and homelessness, including authorizing some spending actions for 2023-24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4808

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - For example, previous budgets provided funding to CHP for similar purposes in 2017-18, 2022-23, and 2023-24. CHPERS Project Is Already Underway, Meets Public Safety and Radio Communications Needs. The Legislature approved the CHPERS project in 2006-07 to enhance the interoperability of CHP ’s radio communications system among public safety agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2023-24 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Mar 20, 2023 - Delaying or Reducing General Fund for Increased Middle ‑Mile Costs in 2023 ‑24 and 2024 ‑25 Another Potential Solution to Budget Problem. Consistent with the legislative goal in S B  189 , the Governor ’s 2023 ‑24 budget maintains $550  million General Fund across 2023 ‑24 and 2024 ‑25 for the middle ‑mile network.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4747

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - SCP This approved IT project seeks to develop and implement an improved online portal for customers to log in and access their program benefits. d EDD implemented the first phase of this project in June 2023, and later provided six additional language options on the portal in 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Security Proposals

Mar 23, 2023 - In The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor’s Budget , our office identifies a budget problem in the tens of billions of dollars in 2023-24 and, in The 2023-24 Budget: Multiyear Assessment , projects a larger budget problem at May Revision by several billion dollars across 2022-23 and 2023-24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4748

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control

Feb 24, 2023 - The Governor ’s budget proposes 16 new permanent positions in 2023- 24 —increasing to 19 positions in 2024- 25 —to support ABC ’s licensing, enforcement, and education program. The proposed budget includes $2.8  million from the ABC Fund in 2023- 24 —increasing to $3.2  million annually in 2024- 25 —to support these positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4705