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

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - By comparison, the average number of certified DVBEs between the 2017 ‑18 and 2023 ‑24 fiscal years was 1, 774 —ranging from a low of 1,623 in 2018 ‑19 to a peak of 2,070 in 2020 ‑21. The number of certified DVBEs with active state contracts is somewhat unclear.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - State Employee Compensation Legislature Ratified New Agreements With All 21 Bargaining Units. Chapter 5 of 2025 (AB 102, Gabriel) amended the budget to include Control Section 3.90, which established an expectation that the administration would meet and confer in good faith with all 21 of the state’s bargaining units before July 1, 2025 to achieve budgetary savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Apr 3, 2025 - The resulting report identified a structural deficit dating to 2020-21 caused by both cost and revenue factors. Cost factors included annual salary adjustments and startup costs for the three new programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - In addition to its departmental change management efforts, the CSPS IT project will communicate with 21 state bargaining units about the business and process changes associated with the new payroll system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - The number of inspections conducted in 2022-23 and 2023-24 was 52  percent lower than in 2020-21 and 2021-22. Over the same period, the number of citations issued dropped by 24  percent. These drops are particularly striking given that staff concerns about COVID-19 exposure likely diminished substantially over that period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - In 2019 ‑20 and 2020 ‑21, the state allocated part of its required debt payment funding (pursuant to Proposition  2 [2014]) to CalSTRS. Specifically, the state made supplemental payments of $1.1  billion in 2019 ‑20 and $297  million in 2020 ‑21 toward the state ’s share of CalSTRS ’ UAO.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Consumer Affairs Organizational Improvement Office

Feb 24, 2023 - OIO has operated under its current authorized funding and position levels since 2020-21. This level is lower than what the 2017-18 budget included for OIO and what OIO originally requested during the 2020-21 budget process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4704

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - Taxpayers would claim these tax credits and exclusions over a number of years beginning in 2020 ‑21. The Governor ’s budget assumes these proposals would reduce General Fund revenues by $76  million in 2020 ‑21 and $30  million in 2021 ‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

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

Feb 19, 2025 - The control section required DOF to report specific information to the JLBC and to the exclusive bargaining representatives of the state ’s 21 collective bargaining units on January 10, 2025. Specifically, for each position proposed to be eliminated in 2025-26, DOF was required to report (1)  the department and program associated with the eliminated position, (2)  the job
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975