The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 26, 2025 - These declines are driven by the administration ’s estimates that the prison population reduction attributable to Proposition  47 will decline by 3,357 (88  percent) over the period. This primarily reflects the administration ’s projections that Proposition  36 will significantly reduce the impact of Proposition  47 on the prison population.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

Insurance regulation. [Ballot]

Sep 30, 2025 - CDI would then have up to 180 days to undo the rate changes. CDI could undo the rates only if they show one or more of the following: There is not a competitive market for the specific type of insurance.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-012

The 2023-24 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 2, 2023 - The state ’s HCBS spending plan includes two IHSS-related enhancements: (1)  provide a one-time $500 payment to IHSS providers who worked at least two months between March  2020 and March  2021 and (2)  create specialized training opportunities and fiscal bonuses for IHSS providers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4729

The 2021-22 May Revision: Golden State Stimulus 2

May 18, 2021 - During the summer of 2020, the state regularly distributed $5  billion in UI benefits per week (for comparison, under normal conditions, the state typically distributes about $100  million per week).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4435

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - As of February 2025, CDE has awarded 185 grants for middle college and early college high schools, totaling $46  million, and awarded 877 grants for CCAP agreements totaling $88  million. The grant program requires CDE to provide two programmatic reports, one by June 30,  2024 and the other by June 30, 2027.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

The 2025-26 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - Instead, much of the bounce appears to be tied to special forms of pay for high ‑income workers, such as bonuses and stock  compensation. Booming Stock Market Driving Income Growth. The recent run ‑up in the stock market, which appears tied to optimism surrounding artificial intelligence, is a primary driver of the rapid growth in pay to high ‑income workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4939

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025 Less than 5 percentage points from target 6 5 to 10 percentage points from target 14 More than 10 percentage points from target 2 Disparities in Graduation Rates Across Campuses Remain Large.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health 100 100 a The spending plan assumes a portion of funds designated for this service ($88 million) cannot be allocated due to implementation issues and instead will be spent in 2027.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2022-23 Budget: School Nutrition

Feb 8, 2022 - For kitchen infrastructure funding, most LEAs requested funding to purchase cooking equipment and make associated facility upgrades (91  percent), followed by service equipment (88  percent) —such as mobile carts —and refrigeration and storage (88  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4519

The 2024-25 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 29, 2024 - The 2021-22 budget included $5  million General Fund to create a permanent IHSS backup provider system on January 1, 2022, contingent on a policy framework being adopted in statute. However, a policy framework for the permanent backup provider system was not adopted within the 2021-22 budget period, resulting in the initial $5  million allocation going unspent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4868