The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Although the IHSS  caseload has grown at a positive rate for all but two years, since 1991 ‑92 (our first year of readily available data), the rate of that growth has been variable. In 1991 ‑92, the caseload grew at a rate of 8.1  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - The bill required the State Council on Developmental Disabilities (SCDD) to establish a multiyear plan for phasing out the use of 14(c) certificates in California. By the end of the multiyear plan (once 14(c) certificates are phased out), any DDS consumers who are employed must be paid at least minimum wage.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - Although the IHSS caseload has grown at a positive rate for all but two years since 1991-92 (our first year of readily available data), the rate of that growth has been variable. In 1991-92, the caseload grew at a rate of 8.1  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

The 2026-27 Budget: California State University

Feb 24, 2026 - The state pays costs for the employer contribution associated with CSU’s 2013‑14 payroll level. CSU pays the employer contribution for any payroll growth above that level. The state adopted this arrangement in 2013‑14 to provide CSU with a stronger fiscal incentive to contain staffing costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5142

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Is the State Meeting the 3   Percent Participation Goal? According to information provided by OSDS, in the aggregate across all reported contracts for mandatory reporters, the state met the 3  percent participation goal in nine of ten years between 2013 ‑14 and 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - Chapter  4 of 2016 (S B  3 , Leno) has gradually increased California ’s statewide minimum wage from $8 per hour to $16 per hour. Under S B  3 , the statewide minimum wage will continue to increase by up to 3.5  percent each year, depending on inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - It  carries debt mostly from former state general obligation bonds and, beginning in 2013 ‑14, from university bonds. In 2013 ‑14, the state initiated a new policy intended to provide UC with greater ability to manage its facilities, more predictability in facility financing, and more incentive to contain costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2025 - Figure 2 263 409 a Includes the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and general obligation bond debt service. Note: Totals may not add due to rounding. CalRecycle = California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Mar 3, 2026 - As shown in Figure  3, the Governor ’s budget projects that caseload will decrease by 0.9  percent in both 2025-26 and 2026-27. In past years, the Department of Social Services (DSS) has noted that a potential driver of this steady caseload decline may be fewer individuals meeting income and asset eligibility thresholds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2026-27 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 23, 2026 - As shown in Figure  1, these estimates represent a $13  million (14  percent) and a 501 person (13  percent) decline relative to the 2023-24 savings, the year before Proposition  36 took effect. These declines primarily reflect the administration ’s estimate of the impact of Proposition  36 —which went into effect halfway through 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5108