Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - For state entities using the Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal), such notifications occur automatically, with 3,070 issued in 2024. It is unclear how consistently state entities not using FI$CAL are issuing notifications.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

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

Feb 11, 2026 - Funding for CCAP was reauthorized twice (in 2020-21 and 2023-24), each time on a three-year, limited-term basis. The revised 2025-26 budget for CCAP includes $3.4  million CCF and 13 positions. Provisional Licensees Did Not Have Appeal Rights, Which Contributed to Dearth of Cases Between 2017-18 and 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5119

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - A different data source —the state Position Vacancy Report , which calculates the average annual vacancy rate across all types of staff in the department excluding temporary positions—reports an even higher vacancy rate: 13.6 percent as of 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - EDD reallocated more than half of 2023-24 funding and nearly 20  percent of 2024-25 funding from original appropriations to cover the costs of different projects within the EDDNext portfolio. Furthermore, the second phase of one IT project (the Shared Customer Portal) was cancelled and absorbed as a set of requirements into the procurement for the proposed ICMS/IDM IT project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2024 - For  more information about these changes, see our March  20,  2023  brief — The 2023‑24 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure —and the “Broadband Infrastructure” section of our November 8, 2023 post— The 2023‑24 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4867

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Of these positions, the control section directs DOF to identify positions proposed for elimination that had been authorized to implement legislation passed in 2022 and 2023. DOF identified 116.5 positions that fall into this category.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 19, 2023 - A spending delay is an expenditure reduction proposed for the budget window (2021-22 through 2023-24) with an associated, offsetting cost increase in a future year of the multiyear (2024-25 through 2026-27).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4808

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Over the budget window —2023 ‑24 through 2025 ‑ 26 —the administration ’s estimates of revenues (excluding policy proposals) are higher than our November 2024 estimate by $9  billion. Higher estimates for personal income taxes and corporation taxes each account for a bit under half of this difference, with the small remainder attributable to a variety of other revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2023-24 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Mar 20, 2023 - Delaying or Reducing General Fund for Increased Middle ‑Mile Costs in 2023 ‑24 and 2024 ‑25 Another Potential Solution to Budget Problem. Consistent with the legislative goal in S B  189 , the Governor ’s 2023 ‑24 budget maintains $550  million General Fund across 2023 ‑24 and 2024 ‑25 for the middle ‑mile network.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4747

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

Feb 24, 2025 - Governor ’s Proposal Reappropriation of 2024-25 Unspent Budget Authority . The Governor ’s 2025-26 budget requests that $22  million General Fund originally appropriated in 2024-25 be reappropriated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4982