Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - DVBE Incentive —The DVBE incentive, on the other hand, provides a competitive advantage to bidders who include a certified DVBE subcontractor in their proposals. The incentive applies to most competitive state solicitations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2022-23 Budget: Office of Planning and Research Budget Proposals

Feb 9, 2022 - Most of these programs competitively award grants to community‑based organizations (CBOs) and other trusted messengers to communicate state messages locally or regionally using various media and, often, in various languages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4523

The 2022-23 Budget: California Department of Technology

Feb 22, 2022 - In other words, despite the 10  percent reduction in fees, the department ’s proposal to temporarily cover some of its indirect administrative costs outside of the rate structure would not make some of the IT services it provides competitively priced.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4552

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

Feb 27, 2026 - In more recent years, the National 911 Program (within the U.S. Department of Transportation) began working with stakeholders towards a nationwide, interoperable “system of Next Generation 911 systems ” with the goal of connecting 911 systems across state lines.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Sep 23, 2021 - The California Film Commission competitively awards tax credits of up to 25  percent of certain production expenses, such as crew wages and post-production costs, to motion picture production companies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4452

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 29, 2021 - The 2021 ‑22 budget provides HCFC $50.3  million one-time General Fund to establish a competitive grant program for cities, counties and CoCs to support encampment resolution and the transition of individuals into housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4468

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - For example, CalFire ’s wildfire prot ection budget includes the Emergency Fund (E‑Fund). The E‑fund is an amount budgeted for emergency fire protection and is intended to enable the department to pay for the costs of responding to large wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - Specifically, while the vacancy rate was 2.8  percent in 2019, it then rose to over 9  percent in 2021, and remained at 6.6  percent as of 2024, per the most recent data available. (The total number of authorized officer positions for the department has remained roughly the same since 2012.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - While we were not able to compare service contracts and rates in our research, it seems at least possible based on our assessment of certain budget proposals related to the State Data Center that rates for some IT services offered by CDT are not competitive with private vendor rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

The 2021-22 Budget: State Board of Equalization

Feb 23, 2021 - In November 2019, BOE submitted a formal request to the State Personnel Board (SPB) to consider restoring its HR delegations. The issue remains unresolved due to the COVID ‑ 19 e mergency and related workload disruptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4385