The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - Overall, most programs increase employment and earnings among participants while receiving a subsidy. However, the ultimate goal is to improve long-term employment prospects of these workers. Research suggests that it is less common that programs lead to h igher employment or earnings after the subsidy ends.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - Appendix Glossary of Key Terms Related to Pension Funds Throughout this report, we refer to terms commonly used when describing pension funds. We define those key terms here, in reference to the California State Teachers ’ Retirement System (CalSTRS).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - A generally accepted best practice is for program administrators to notify a DVBE subcontractor when they are named on a prime contractor ’s bid. For state entities using the Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal), such notifications occur automatically, with 3,070 issued in 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2025-26 Budget: Office of Emergency Services—Request for Reappropriation of Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Fund Resources

Feb 24, 2025 - To inform this decision, the Legislature could direct OES and local law enforcement to provide their perspectives in spring budget hearings on the key weaknesses of the LEMA system that are best ad dressed through state reimbursement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4982

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

Feb 27, 2026 - Changes of This Magnitude to a Critical Public Safety System Are Best Accomplished Under Close Oversight, Which Is Currently Lacking. In the decades since the 911 system was first established, it has developed into a critical part of California ’s public safety system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

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

Feb 9, 2022 - To raise awareness of the Golden State Stimulus (GSS) and the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC) programs, the Franchise Tax Board, in partnership with the Department of Community Services and Development (CSD), award grants to CBOs for education and outreach activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4523

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - (For a detailed discussion of these two control sections, refer to our February 2025 post, The 2025-26 Budget: State Departments’ Operational Efficiencies [Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12] .) Both control sections assumed that savings would materialize from an internal administrative exercise coordinated by DOF.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization

Feb 25, 2025 - To assist the Legislature, we developed a broad framework for considering the proposal that builds upon our assessment of prior reorganization plans and best practices identified from other government agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

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

Mar 11, 2025 - Both U.S. citizens and California Dream Act students (sometimes referred to as AB  540 students) are able to participate in the program. (This latter group consists primarily of undocumented students.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

The 2025-26 Budget: State Departments’ Operational Efficiencies (Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12)

Feb 19, 2025 - For more information about the effects on the universities, please refer to our separate analyses related to the universities . This analysis does not address assumed reductions to trial court local assistance as those reductions are outside of either control section—refer to our analysis of trial courts for information about those reductions. 2024-25 Budget The
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975