The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - Past efforts to achieve large unallocated reductions through efficiencies have resulted in some ongoing savings to the state budget but generally have fallen short of the large levels initially assumed. 2024-25 Budget Assumed Large Ongoing Reductions to Departmental State Operations … The 2024-25 budget assumed large levels of ongoing departmental budgetary
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

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 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This is a net increase of $5  million (3  percent) over the revised 2024-25 level. (This does not reflect some adjustments related to Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12 of the 2024-25 and 2025-26 budgets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Feb 11, 2026 - Four cases reached the panel in subsequent years —2021 to 2024 —but all were withdrawn or dismissed because the appellants had provisional licenses. CCAP asserts that the dearth of cases during this period was attributable to the fact that large numbers of cannabis licensees held provisional licenses during these years, which meant they could not appeal to the CCAP.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5119

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

Feb 27, 2026 - Next Generation 911 Technology Deployed Across Four Main Regions Between 2019 and 2024. As originally envisioned, California ’s approach for a Next Generation 911 system involved breaking the state up into four regions with a single statewide vendor serving as a back ‑up.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

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 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate

Mar 19, 2025 - This amount reflects an increase of $2.8  million (about 4  percent) from the revised 2024-25 level. The proposed budget would provide DRE with a total of about 387 positions in 2025-26 —an increase of 3 positions (less than 1  percent) from the revised 2024-25 level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5019

The 2025-26 Budget: State Departments’ Operational Efficiencies (Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12)

Feb 19, 2025 - As we discussed in our March 2024 analysis , May 2024 analysis , and part of our 2024-25 spending plan series , the budget assumed that these two exercises combined would (1) result in General Fund savings totaling $2.9 billion ($200 million of which was assumed from the universities) in 2024-25 and $3.6 billion ($774 million of
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Legislative Action in June 2024 Addressed Anticipated Budget Problem Proactively. In  June of 2024, the Legislature not only addressed the budget problem for 2024 ‑25, but also made proactive decisions to address the anticipated budget problem for 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - Figure  2 below provides a breakdown of available funding in 2024-25 by current IT project, non-IT project, and supporting function. Figure 2 Available Funding for EDDNext Costs in 2024 ‑25 (In Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985