The 2026-27 Budget: How to Use One-Time Revenue Improvements

Feb 20, 2026 - Figure 1 The State ’s New Wall of Debt (In Billions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5133

The 2026-27 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 12, 2026 - Implementing Immigrant Population ‑Related H.R. 1 Policies in Medi ‑Cal. As part of the state ’s required implementation of H.R. 1, the Governor proposes taking two discretionary actions related to immigrants that reduce state costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5101

Flexible Funding to California in the American Rescue Plan

Mar 23, 2021 - They are: (1)  to respond to the public health emergency or negative economic impacts associated with the emergency; (2)  to support essential work; (3)  to backfill a reduction in revenue that has occurred since 2018-19; or (4)  for water, sewer, or broadband infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4407

New Inflation Poses Not So New Budget Risk

Dec 15, 2022 - In what economists refer to as a “cost disease, ” these sectors largely are precluded from the disinflationary effects associated with advances in productivity and thus experience higher rates of inflation than the economy overall (see figure  1).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4653

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan

Oct 16, 2025 - Middle Class Scholarships (MCS) Arrears Budgeting ($1 Billion). The budget package reflects $1 billion in savings by deferring recognition of MCS program costs from 2025‑26 to 2026‑27 on a budgetary basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5079

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - This year, for example, our outlook reflects our best estimates of the effects of H.R. 1: One Big Beautiful Bill Act on the state budget but does not make assumptions about future federal policy changes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Sep 27, 2022 - The budget extends the state ’s COVID-19 sick leave policy by three months, from September 30, 2022 to December 31, 2022. The state ’s COVID-19 sick leave policy requires employers to provide workers up to 40 hours of sick leave to use if (1)  under COVID-19 isolation, (2)  attending a vaccine appointment, or (3)  experiencing COVID-19 symptoms.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4626

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 16, 2023 - On October 1, 2023, the family fee schedule must be reinstated in child care programs. Prior to the COVID ‑19 pandemic, families making at least 40  percent of the state median income were required to pay a fee (varying from about 1  percent to 10  percent of family income) for child care and full ‑day State Preschool services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4788

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 27, 2021 - This control section provides the administration with flexibility to expend the $1. 7 b illion from the General Fund allocated in the 2021 ‑22 Budget Act to support the COVID ‑19 ‑related activities of nine state departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4448

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: The State Appropriations Limit

Sep 30, 2022 - We understand the CERF includes direct COVID-19 response expenditures of $1.9  billion in 2021-22 and $2.5  billion in 2022-23, nearly $2  billion in emergency rental relief assistance (in 2021-22), just over $1  billion for healthcare worker retention payments (in 2021-22), $1.2  billion for energy utility arrearages (in 2022-23), and $1.1  billion for drought emergency expenditures ($1  billion in 2021-22).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4631