The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Health Care Access and Information

Feb 27, 2024 - While the initiatives cut across different areas of health care, most have focused on increasing the statewide supply of providers, addressing regional shortages of providers, or enhancing the diversity of the workforce.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4860

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Feb 13, 2024 - A master plan can serve to focus and coordinate state efforts in a broad policy area that cuts across multiple state entities, initiated by a process of setting priority goals and developing an implementatio n plan to achieve the goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4837

Issues That Could Impact Californians' Health Care Coverage in 2023 and Beyond

Dec 16, 2022 - As part of the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Congress effectively eliminated the federal individual mandate by setting the penalty for violating the coverage requirement to zero beginning in 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4654

The 2021-22 Budget: LAO Preliminary Comments on the Governor’s Major May Revision Behavioral Health Proposals

May 24, 2021 - Given the size of the initiative, and that there are components that cut across multiple departments, there are several areas of the proposal where the Legislature will need further detail to assess the merits of the initiative as a whole.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4439

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 9, 2022 - Proposal Governor Proposes to Eliminate Rate Cuts for Certain Providers. The Governor ’s budget proposes $9  million General Fund ($20  million total funds) to eliminate these payment rate reductions for certain provider types among those still subject to the 2011 rate reductions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4522

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - Based on the reserve balance and one ‑time cushion, we think the state likely could weather a relatively mild recession without resorting to significant cuts or payment deferrals for school and community college programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

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

Jan 10, 2021 - Specifically, to the extent the guarantee drops or grows more slowly in the future, the expiration of these one-time allocations allows the state to accommodate the lower guarantee without relying on program cuts or payment deferrals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309