The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - . $235   Million for Literacy Coaches. The Governor proposes $235  million to support additional elementary schools through the LCRS program. Funding would be available to local education agencies (LEAs) —school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education (COEs) —for any school that has K ‑3 enrollment and an EL/LI share of at least 94  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 13, 2025 - In addition, the Governor proposes $235  million to support literacy programs, coaches, and interventions at schools where at least 94  percent of students are EL/LI. (The state has provided almost $500  million for this purpose in recent years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan

Sep 6, 2024 - Examples of the programs with the largest reductions include the Foreclosure Intervention Housing Preservation Program ($400  million General Fund), Infill Infrastructure Program ($235  million General Fund), and CalHome ($153  million General Fund).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4922

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - First, the early action package delayed $235  million General Fund for BHBH from 2024-25 to 2025-26. Then, the June budget shifts $265  million in Mental Health Services Fund (MHSF) support for BHBH in 2024-25 to the General Fund due to insufficient MHSF revenues, and reduces General Fund for BHBH by $133  million in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

The Definition of Qualified Capital Outlay for the State Appropriations Limit

Feb 18, 2022 - There are also some properties that appear to meet the de finition, although perhaps less clearly, like information technology projects. Does the State Need to Own the Asset to Count It as an Exclusion?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4547

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - However, as a budget solution, the 2024-25 spending plan de layed the expansion implementation by two years. Automation for the expansion is now expected to begin in 2026-27, with benefit distribution to begin in 2027-28 (for newly eligible recipients).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

The 2023-24 Budget: State and Federal One-Time K-12 Funding

Mar 10, 2023 - Remaining funding allocated based on 2020 ‑21 Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) apportionments. 4.6 b Arts, Music, and Instructional Materials Discretionary Block Grant Funds may be used for instructional materials and professional development related to school climate (such as training on de ‑escalation strategies) and various academic subject areas, including visual and performing arts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4734

The extraction and recovery of oil and gas, as well as fossil fuel consumption. [Ballot]

Nov 23, 2021 - The measure ’s limitations on operation of wells in health protection zones, well stimulation treatments, and construction of new wells would likely cause significant oil and gas production de clines within a few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-028

Mental Health Services Act: Impact of Governor's Proposal on Funding for Children and Youth

Aug 10, 2023 - Counties expended approximately $235  million of PEI funding on children and youth mental health services in 2021-22, or about 11  percent of total MHSA funds which is slightly above the approximately 10  percent of the total county-share of MHSA revenues required by current regulations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4786

Local land use planning and zoning. [Ballot]

Sep 1, 2023 - State laws enacted since 2016 that would be affected by this measure aimed to reduce barriers to housing de velopment. If cities and counties adopt zoning and land use laws that restrict housing development, housing costs could increase and potentially constrain economic growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-011