Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review [Publication Details]

Dec 2, 2025 - Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review [Publication Details] Description: As required by Chapter 80 of 2020 (SB 588, Archuleta), this brief reviews California’s Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE) program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5095

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Chapter   80 of 2020 (S B   588 , Archuleta) —which, among other things, directs state entities to withhold up to $10,000 from the final payment otherwise due to a prime contractor if that prime contractor does not certify various pieces of DVBE ‑related information.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

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

Feb 27, 2026 - The 911 surcharge is established each fall by OES, though current law caps the surcharge at 80 cents. The 911 surcharge rate for calendar year 2026 is 41  cents. SETNA is expected to receive $215   million in surcharge revenue in 2026 ‑27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

The 2025-26 Budget: California Military Department—STARBASE Classroom Building

Feb 20, 2025 - CMD asserts that a new, bigger educational space could serve as many as 900 additional students annually. The department indicates that a new classroom building could accommodate approximately 50 STARBASE classes during the school year, which would effectively eliminate the typical annual program waitlist.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4976

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 29, 2021 - In addition, the legislation makes several changes to the existing emergency rental assistance program, including providing 100  percent reimbursement (up from 80  percent) for both arrearage and prospective rent payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4468

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposed Reductions to State Operations

May 21, 2024 - In some departments, more than 80  percent of state operation expenditures are for state employee salaries and benefits. Although the administration has not yet articulated a clear strategy for how savings of this magnitude would be achieved, it is our current understanding from the administration that the proposed reductions would be done in a way that does not affect current employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4903

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - Requiring the California Department of Public Health to assist the San Bernardino County Division of Environmental Health Services (SBDEHS) until the division could attain normal staffing levels following a 2015 terrorist attack on a training session involving 80 SBDEHS  employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2023-24 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Mar 20, 2023 - A significant amount of additional federal funds —at least in the hundreds of millions of dollars —is expected thereafter by the end of 2024 ‑25, when the state will receive the remaining 80  percent of its program allocation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4747

The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - CA Volunteers allocated 80  percent of the $185  million to the largest 13 cities in the state using a population ‑based formula ($148  million), and granted 19  percent on a competitive basis to 14 other cities and counties ($35  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2024 - Out of the $2.3  billion General Fund appropriated through 2023 ‑24 across the middle ‑mile network ($1.2  billion), last ‑mile project grants ($900  million), and LLRF ($175  million), approximately $740  million is encumbered and only $30  million has been expended.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4867