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

Apr 3, 2025 - Regulates the offer and sale of certain financial securities and franchises, and licenses and examines broker-dealers and investment advisors. (Financial securities are tradable financial assets, such as stocks and bonds.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate

Mar 19, 2025 - Number of Applications for Real Estate Sales and Broker Examinations and Licenses Is Down. DRE reports that it experienced a significant decrease in the number of people applying for real estate examinations and licenses in the first six months of 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5019

State Assistance to Businesses in Response to COVID-19

Jan 4, 2024 - We also examined whether state tax relief associated with the two other main federal programs —RRF and SVOG —displayed a correlation with the size of the metropolitan area in which businesses were located.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4824

The 2021-22 Budget: Funding for Debt Collector Licensing and Regulation

Feb 17, 2021 - For example, based on various assumptions about the amount of time aspects of the licensing and examination process take, DFPI estimates it will need 17 financial institutions examiners in 2021 ‑22 (increasing annually to 28 e xaminers by 2023 ‑24).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4376

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement

Mar 11, 2025 - As a pilot, College Corps underwent an external evaluation process during its first two years to examine how students benefited from the program both academically and professionally. California Volunteers shared that students reported that the program strengthened their commitment to community service and contributed to their career development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - The report examines the statewide capacity to provide behavioral health services across the full spectrum of behavioral health care. Based on data from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, DHCS estimated that over 600 facilities provide outpatient mental health services and nearly 800 facilities provide substance use disorder services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

The 2023-24 Budget: Governor’s Proposals for the Department of General Services

Mar 1, 2023 - The Department of Real Estate, which is almost entirely funded by its special fund, the Real Estate Fund, has a district office and examination site in the building. Accordingly, if DGS was budgeting for these upgrades as part of its rental rates, the Real Estate Fund —and not the General Fund —would be paying for the department ’s respective share of the  upgrade.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4724

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

Jan 10, 2021 - Nonetheless, given what we know now, it would be prudent to step back and examine the Governor ’s proposal in light of new federal relief. The additional federal relief significantly reduces the pressure on the state to act immediately to provide economic assistance to those affected by the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309