The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies [Publication Details]

Mar 10, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies [Publication Details] The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies Format: HTML Description: The 2025-26 budget appropriated up to $20 million to the Department of Finance (DOF) to contract with a consulting firm to assist and advise DOF in creating efficiencies through process improvements in state government.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5156

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - The primary purpose of the contract is to create process improvements within state government that will result in significant cost savings to the state. However, the administration indicates that the work could have other benefits, such as improving the quality of health care or reducing unnecessarily bureaucratic processes, thereby freeing up staff time to address other workload.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - Simplifying these aspects of the funding plan could help improve legislative oversight, lessen the volatile effects of investment returns on the state ’s actuarially required contribution rate, and align impacts of investment returns across the state ’s and employers ’ actuarially required contribution rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400

The 2026-2027 Budget: California Cannabis Control Appeals Panel Permanent Funding Request

Feb 11, 2026 - Three of the panel members are appointed by the Governor and two are Legislative appointees. Panel members receive about $180,000 a year. Their salaries are governed by statute. CCAP first received funding in 2017-18 on a three-year, limited-term basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5119

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - To understand program impacts and to prioritize future investments, employm ent opportunities can be randomly offered to eligible participants when there are more candidates than jobs available. Using program and state administrative data, third-party evaluators can then follow both participants and randomly rejected candidates to determine whether the program improves outcomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

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

Feb 27, 2026 - This  technology allows 911 callers to share multimedia emergency communications (voice, video, photos, and text) and improved location data with dispatch centers. It also allows dispatchers to share this data directly with first responders.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Each agency would be led by a Secretary, who would be a member of the Governor ’s cabinet. The administration indicates that the departments and other entities currently within BCSH would be placed into one of these two new agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - These include: (1)  disability insurance, short-term wage replacement for workers who are injured outside of work (and therefore not covered by workers ’ compensation insurance); (2)  paid family leave, short-term wage replacement for workers to bond with new children or care for ailing family members; and (3)  unemployment insurance, the state-federal wage replacement program for workers who lose their jobs through no fault of their own.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2024 - The Digital Equity Act programs received $2.75  billion nationwide for three grant programs to improve digital equity across specific populations such as low ‑income households, racial and ethnic minorities, and rural areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4867

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

Apr 3, 2025 - These include the following: Investment Program. Regulates the offer and sale of certain financial securities and franchises, and licenses and examines broker-dealers and investment advisors. (Financial securities are tradable financial assets, such as stocks and bonds.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025