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

Apr 3, 2025 - Money Transmitters Program. Regulates, supervises, and examines businesses that receive money for transmission and sell or issue payment instruments and stored value. (These can include businesses that issue money orders and traveler ’s checks, as well as those that offer digital payments, such as PayPal and Stripe.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Chapter   80 of 2020 (S B   588 , Archuleta) —which, among other things, directs state entities to withhold up to $10,000 from the final payment otherwise due to a prime contractor if that prime contractor does not certify various pieces of DVBE ‑related information.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - BCG is expected to develop and pilot an analytical model that could save money in Medi-Cal by detecting pre-payment fraud, reducing improper claims, and flagging areas of possible waste and abuse. Workstream 5: DHCS —Hospital Financing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 29, 2021 - Seventy five percent of the funding ($30  million) will be distributed in two rounds of grants to local governments, another 20  percent ($8  million) will be set aside for local government technical assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4468

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This amount includes $10  million for Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup security costs, $10  million for Family Justice Centers, and $8  million to the City of Los Angeles for fire engine purchases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2021-22 Budget: Funding for Debt Collector Licensing and Regulation

Feb 17, 2021 - This total amount includes (1) $10. 7  m illion and 44 p ositions in newly authorized resources and (2) $5. 8  m illion and 27 p ositions in existing resources redirected from CCFPL implementation. The proposed positions would be divided between a licensing and examination unit, an enforcement unit, and a legal division.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4376

The 2021-22 Budget: State Board of Equalization

Feb 23, 2021 - Due primarily to the vacancies noted above, BOE spent just $24. 5  m illion of its $31. 3  m illion General Fund appropriation in 2019 ‑20. The Governor ’s proposed 2021 ‑22 appropriation for BOE is $31. 8  m illion — 30  p ercent higher than the amount spent in 2019 ‑20.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4385

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

Feb 27, 2026 - It was expected that the Next Generation 911 system would be fully implemented in 2022 and that the five ‑year cost to develop the system would be $132  million, with ongoing operational costs of $40  million annually beginning in 2022 ‑23. 2019 —Revenue Increased, Text ‑to ‑911 Required, and State Contracts Signed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

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

Jan 13, 2025 - The reason for the reduction is the recent voter approval of Proposition  35 (2024), which requires the state to spend less MCO tax money on offsetting General Fund spending and more money on provider rate increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

State Assistance to Businesses in Response to COVID-19

Jan 4, 2024 - These zip codes have a median income of $79,000, somewhat lower than the statewide average of $89,000, and are nearly 40  percent rural compared to the statewide average of 8  percent. As we discussed earlier, rural and lower ‑income zip codes tended to receive less assistance than their urban and higher ‑income counterparts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4824