The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - In recent years, federal officials have indicated plans to change the rules around structuring health care-related taxes, including the MCO tax. Were these rule changes to happen, there could be many possible effects on the size and structure of future versions of the MCO tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4941

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - One key caveat is that these estimates do not necessarily correspond to official diagnoses of any particular condition. In recent years, the department has noted an increase in the share of consumers diagnosed with autism, while diagnoses of intellectual disability have decreased.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2024-25 Budget: Future of Public Health Budget Solution

May 21, 2024 - The workgroup included state and local officials and stakeholders and established a number of priorities based on data and input collected from across the state. The goal was to “right size ” the historically stagnant CDPH budget —both in terms of state and local support.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4904

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - The state is currently working on a new disease surveillance system that would mitigate the problems that arose during the pandemic i ncluding improving its capacity to process large amounts of data; reducing the amount of manual data entry; and allowing public health officials to access real-time, consolidated disease outbreak information.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Health

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, existing official air quality monitoring networks often are not sufficiently dense to measure the effects of smoke on ambient air quality at the local level, and relevant health outcome data is not easily accessible or available in real time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4580

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - Notably, based on information from county officials, the researchers removed 30  percent (about 1,800) of facilities from the state data. Reasons that facilities were removed from the state data included facility closures, an absence of licensed psychiatric beds, or facilities not accepting patients with mental health conditions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Similarly poor conditions replicated catastrophic outcomes for this species in the summer of 2021, when state officials estimated just 2 percent of migrating juveniles survived. Significant declines—or potential permanent extinctions—of the state’s native fish species represent not just a loss of public trust natural resources, but also impair the state’s fishing industry and
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575