The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - The MVA ’s primary source of revenue is from vehicle registration fees, as well as —to a lesser degree —from driver ’s license and identification card fees. CHP receives roughly 60  percent of the MVA revenues ($3  billion) annually, with most of the remainder supporting activities at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

Voting in California. [Ballot]

Sep 4, 2025 - Voter Identification Cards. The one-time and ongoing costs to the state for providing free voter identification cards to voters would depend on future decisions by the Legislature. These include (1)  which state entity would have the responsibility of issuing the cards (for example, DMV, Secretary of State, or a newly created office), (2)  the
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-007

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - Accordingly, we downloaded California’s drug utilization data from the first quarter of 2018 through the second quarter of 2024 (the latest quarter available at the time of our analysis). Rebates —Federal Financial Management Reports.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library

Mar 7, 2025 - For example, employees might inadvertently make mistakes, such as accidently clicking on a malicious link or downloading harmful ma terials. The California Department of Technology (CDT) also conducted an assessment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5013

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - Most theft of EBT benefits is believed to be accomplished through creating “clones ” of EBT cards. EBT card cloning is possible, in part, because EBT cards have historically lacked many security features common to debit and credit cards, such as security chips.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

The 2025-26 Budget: Natural Resources and Agriculture Discretionary Spending Proposals

Feb 18, 2025 - However, an important consideration is that because the Library Pass Program is available to any Californian with a public library card, it is not as closely targeted toward residents with particular demographics as other free park pass progra ms the state operates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4967

The 2025-26 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 12, 2025 - Some of the major expenditure cost drivers have included (1)  increased employee compensation costs which have been driven by both increases to staffing levels and growing salary and benefit costs at CHP, (2)  workload related to the issuance of new driver licenses and ID cards that comply with federal standards (commonly referred to as “REAL IDs), ” and (3)  supplemental pension plan repayments that began in 2019 ‑20.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4961

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - Download our companion infographic for a quick summary of the issues and recommendations in this report. California’s unemployment insurance (UI) program provides temporary wage replacement to unemployed workers. The state’s UI program financing system is broken.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Continues EBT Card Replacement Effort. The 2023-24 Budget Act included funding (about $75  million total funds over multiple years) to improve EBT card technology and security through the rollout of new cards with chip and tap-to-pay technologies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/3

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Requires Updates on Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) Card Replacement Time Line. The spending plan includes supplemental reporting language requiring CDSS to provide updates to the Legislature on the schedule for EBT card replacement, how the implementation is minimizing risk for consumers, and the interaction of state and federal funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/2