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

Mar 7, 2025 - A majority of state bargaining units must renegotiate new agreements that year, which is a significant amount of work for both CalHR and the unions representing bargaining units. This work could delay the other work CalHR and others need to do to complete the project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - These terminated emergencies remained open for an average of about three and a half years. The remaining 53  states of emergency declared since October 30, 2015 that were still open on December 31, 2024 had been open for an average of about two years —ranging from a couple weeks to over nine years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

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

Feb 27, 2026 - The 2018 ‑19 budget package provided $11.5  million in 2018 ‑19 (increasing annually to $83.6  million in 2022 ‑23) from SETNA and six positions for OES to build out and support the Next Generation 911 system and maintain the legacy 911 system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

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: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - For example, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, the state-federal cash assistance program for low-income households, fully or partially subsidizes the wages of selected CalWORKs recip ients for six months to a year in some counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Sep 16, 2022 - Similar to last year, the funding would support capital improvements to affordable housing developments with covenants that are due to expire, which would transition housing units to market-rate housing, in order to preserve the state ’s affordable housing stock.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4622

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - The administration has since made upward adjustments to its MVA projections and now estimates the account to be in stable condition for both the current year and the 2026-27 budget year. (Accordingly, the Governor’s budget proposes undoing the $166 million current-year fund shift and letting the MVA reassume the associated costs.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - OSDS largely attributes this year ‑over ‑year decrease to a statewide expenditure reduction directive issued by the Department of Finance in December 2023 that was intended to help address the fiscal difficulties facing the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - A recent scientific  study  by United States Geological Survey researchers predicted that under scenarios of three feet to six feet of sea‑level rise, up to two‑thirds of Southern California beaches may become completely eroded by 2100.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - Identifying efficiencies can be a worthy endeavor in any year; however, it is particularly important to minimize unnecessary or duplicative spending in times like the present when the state faces a projected structural budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156