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

Feb 27, 2026 - Available Information Leaves Key Questions Unanswered. While OES has provided high ‑level descriptions of its plans, it has not presented critical details to the Legislature, leaving key questions unanswered.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Key reciprocity partners include the City and County of Los Angeles and many California utility companies. How Many DVBEs Are There in California? As of June 2025, California had 2,118 certified DVBEs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization

Feb 25, 2025 - We conclude by providing key considerations for the Legislature when evaluating the Governor ’s proposal when it is received in the Spring. Background State Agencies California ’s Agencies Perform a Number of Functions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

The 2025-26 Budget: Office of Emergency Services—Request for Reappropriation of Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Fund Resources

Feb 24, 2025 - Program Structure Might Not Align With Key Problem It Was Designed to Solve. The LEMA Assistance Fund program has minimal statutory guidance on what its goals are, the problems it seeks to address, and how it should be structured.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4982

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - Over the last few years, two key measures of the licensing program ’s enforcement activities have declined. The number of inspections conducted in 2022-23 and 2023-24 was 52  percent lower than in 2020-21 and 2021-22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

Apr 3, 2025 - Direct Department to Provide Key Information on Plans to Address Solvency of the Programs Not Included in the Fee Proposal. We recommend that the Legislature direct DFPI to report in spring budget hearings key information on its plans to fully fund the programs and subprograms that are not included in the Governor ’s proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2021-22 Budget: California Arts Council

Feb 1, 2021 - Specifically, the administration has been unable to adequately respond to the fo llowing key questions: Who Would Administer the Grant? At the time of this analysis, the administration has not specified who would administer the new grant program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4337

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 19, 2023 - It requires each plan to coordinate homelessness funding and services across the region, assign specific roles and responsibilities to each member of the regional plan, and set forth key actions that each member will take to reduce and prevent homelessness.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4808

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - Two key areas where these savings have eroded are in the managed care organization (MCO) tax package and reductions to state operations. These are described in the box below. The forthcoming Appendix 1 will also provide a full list of the solutions from the 2024 ‑25 budget package that generate savings in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate

Mar 19, 2025 - In this post, we assess key drivers of the structural imbalance of the Department of Real Estate’s primary source of funding—the state Real Estate Fund—and make recommendations to help ensure solvency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5019