The 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System [Publication Details]

Feb 27, 2026 - This brief summarizes the history, costs, and current status of the state’s effort to deploy a Next Generation 911 system and assesses the administration’s proposal to abandon the existing regional approach in favor of a statewide model. It also offers recommendations regarding legislative oversight of this project and the long-term governance of the state’s 911 system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5145

The 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System

Feb 27, 2026 - In November 2025, OES released an updated 2025 Next Generation 9 ‑1 ‑1 Transition Plan . Under the updated transition plan, the state will switch from the regional approach to a statewide approach with two statewide network providers —one prime network service provider and a back ‑up.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure at May Revision

May 23, 2024 - Last-Mile Project Grants Delays $200  Million General Fund From 2025 ‑26 to 2027 ‑28. The May Revision proposes to delay $200  million General Fund for last-mile projects planned for appropriation in 2025 ‑26 by two fiscal years to 2027 ‑28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4906

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 - Legislation also requires a report to the Legislature by March  1, 2024 evaluating options for financing an expansion of the available loan pool. Additionally, supplemental reporting requirements direct our office to (1)  report by July 15, 2024 on the shared appreciation loans, including demographic information on loan recipients and geographic distraction of
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4808

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

Jan 13, 2022 - The Governor proposes $1  billion in one ‑time General Fund over two years for affordable housing development. The  budget largely expands existing state programs related to affordable housing. Specifically, the budget proposes $500  million for tax credits to builders of rental housing affordable to low ‑income households, $200  million for mixed ‑income
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - As  described more fully below, OSDS has investigated over 200  cases of potential noncompliance and program abuse. The most commonly reported type of alleged program abuse was underutilization. Most  cases resulted in a finding of no violation, but about one third resulted in a penalty or sanction of some  kind.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2025-26 Budget: State Departments’ Operational Efficiencies (Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12)

Feb 19, 2025 - Both control sections established statewide administrative exercises led by the Department of Finance (DOF) to (1)  identify efficiencies and (2)  eliminate vacant positions and related funding. As we discussed in our March 2024 analysis , May 2024 analysis , and part of our 2024-25 spending plan series , the budget assumed that these two exercises combined would
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - FIP S 200 . FIP S 200 specifies minimum security requirements for federal information and information systems, and provides a risk ‑based process for selecting the security controls that are needed to meet these  requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - Workstream 1: CDCR —Procurement and Inventory Management. BCG is expected to analyze CDCR ’s procurement and inventory management processes, contracts, and financial data to identify opportunities for CDCR to save money by (1)  renegotiating, consolidating, or eliminating contracts and (2)  reducing quantities purchased or switching to a different product type.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156