The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - In 2023, the Legislature codified several efforts to make processes across RCs more consistent in order to improve access to services statewide (Chapter  192 of 2023 [S B  138 , Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review]).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - The 2023-24 budget delayed its end to 2024-25. Withdrawing the scheduled end of the deferral in 2024-25, thereby allowing it to continue, provides $5 33  million one-time General Fund savings in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - The federal government approved the current version of the MCO tax in December 2023. As of the release of this post, however, federal approval is pending on additional tax increases enacted as part of the 2024 ‑25 budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4941

The 2024-25 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Dec 7, 2023 - This expansion is scheduled to begin no later than January 1, 2024, half way through the 2023-24 fiscal year. We estimate costs related to the expansion to be $2.9  billion General Fund in 2024-25, an increase of $1.7  billion over the 2023-24 partial-year level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4820

The 2025-26 Budget: Understanding Recent Increases in the Medi-Cal Senior Caseload

Mar 6, 2025 - Specifically, between July 1, 2022, and December 31, 2023, the asset limits were increased to $130,000 for individuals and $195,000 for couples (with an additional $65,000 allowable for each additional household member), and were fully eliminated effect ive January 1, 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

The 2025-26 Budget: MCO Tax and Proposition 35

Feb 26, 2025 - The MCO tax-funded 2024 rate increases are part icularly instructive in this regard. Enacted by the Legislature in June 2023 and scheduled to begin in January 2024, health plans required considerable time and effort to incorporate the new rates into their contracts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4992

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Mar 2, 2026 - The current health plan tax, enacted in 2023 and expanded in 2024, generates more than three times the revenue of previous versions. This higher revenue level is essentially at the maximum of the current federal revenue limit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5146

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Health Care Access and Information

Feb 27, 2024 - To help address last year ’s budget problem, the 2023 ‑24 budget enacted two key budget solutions to HCAI ’s 2022 ‑23 workforce package. First, it delayed $115  million community health worker funds in the Workforce for a Health California for All initiative from 2023 ‑24 to 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4860

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 23, 2023 - The budget delays $235  million in BHBH funding previously budgeted in 2023-24 to 2024-25. In addition, the budget replaces $265  million of General Fund for BHBH in 2023-24 with MHSF. Delays $481  million in Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4810

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - The 2024 ‑25 budget later deferred the facility construction funds to 2025 ‑26. Naloxone. The 2023 ‑24 budget provided $30  million one ‑time Opioid Settlements Fund for a partnership to produce a generic, over the counter naloxone nasal spray product.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979