The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - As of December 2022, there are 158 civil service state departments —91 are processing departments and 67 are non-processing departments. According to the CSPS IT project, the following number of processing departments are in each classification: 12 micro, 36 small, 36 medium, 5 large, and 3 mega.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

A New Method For Current Year Revenue Forecasting [EconTax Blog]

Sep 20, 2021 - We then repeated this process for every year durin g the period 1990-91  through 2021-22. The results of this analysis are summarized in the graphic below.   Up-To-Date Data Improves Forecast Accuracy.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/696

The 2021-22 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Spending Authorities

Mar 2, 2021 - As discussed above, the Governor ’s budget proposes two new control sections —11 .92 and 11. 91 —that would provide the administration with significant flexibility in spending state, federal, and private funds on COVID ‑ 19 r esponse activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4393

The 2026-27 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 23, 2026 - We recommend the Legislature require CDCR to provide it with key information to inform its deliberations about whether the $91  million for separating employee leave cashout payments will be needed in 2029 ‑30 and ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

Third Round of Federal Higher Education Relief Funding

May 3, 2021 - Figure 4 California Higher Education Expected to Receive $5 Billion in Base Funds a American Rescue Plan Act (In Millions) Segment
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4421

The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare

May 24, 2024 - Passing only what is necessary this year would allow more time for the remaining stakeholder questions and policy issues to be worked out and give the Legislature the chance to assess whether the rates structure is in line with its vision for permanent CC R rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909

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

Oct 16, 2025 - The 2025-26 spending plan appropriates $91  million from Proposition  4 specifically for CNRA, including $47  million for the Urban Greening Program. Additionally, the budget includes a total of $77  million General Fund in 2025-26 for CNRA to coordinate and distribute across a variety of one-time efforts and projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - The 2021-22 budget included $5  million General Fund to create a permanent IHSS backup provider system on January 1, 2022, contingent on a policy framework being adopted in statute. However, a policy framework for the permanent backup provider system was not adopted within the 2021-22 budget period, resulting in the initial $5  million allocation going unspent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

Overview of Efforts to Modernize EDD’s Benefit Systems [Publication Details]

Feb 24, 2026 - Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on State Administration
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5135

Office of Emergency Services: Next Generation 911 System [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2026 - Presented to: Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 5 on Corrections, Public Safety, Judiciary, Labor and Transportation
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5151