The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This amount includes $10  million for Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup security costs, $10  million for Family Justice Centers, and $8  million to the City of Los Angeles for fire engine purchases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The reason for the reduction is the recent voter approval of Proposition  35 (2024), which requires the state to spend less MCO tax money on offsetting General Fund spending and more money on provider rate increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

Apr 3, 2025 - We also recommend directing DFPI to report annually for three years beginning on January 10, 2026, on the amount of revenue received from each increased fee and how this compares to what the department projected would be received.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - BCG is expected to develop and pilot an analytical model that could save money in Medi-Cal by detecting pre-payment fraud, reducing improper claims, and flagging areas of possible waste and abuse. Workstream 5: DHCS —Hospital Financing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposed Reductions to State Operations

May 21, 2024 - Money is fungible, if the Legislature were to approve both the unallocated reductions and the proposed budget augmentations to fund new activities, what assurances can the administration provide that the newly approved funding and position authority would be used to implement the new activities and not, instead, used to backfill reductions established through the administrative exercises?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4903

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

Feb 19, 2025 - In total, these savings represent roughly 10  percent of General Fund state operations expenditures for affected departments in 2024-25. Control Section 4.05. The enacted budget assumed General Fund savings of $2.2  billion in 2024-25 and $2.8  billion ongoing beginning in 2025-26 to reduce General Fund state operations expenditures by up to 7.95  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - For the purposes of the state DVBE program, a “disabled veteran ” is defined as a veteran of the U.S. military, naval, or air service, who has a service ‑connected disability rating of at least 10  percent, and resides in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

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

Feb 27, 2026 - It was expected that the Next Generation 911 system would be fully implemented in 2022 and that the five ‑year cost to develop the system would be $132  million, with ongoing operational costs of $40  million annually beginning in 2022 ‑23. 2019 —Revenue Increased, Text ‑to ‑911 Required, and State Contracts Signed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

The 2021-22 Budget: Funding for Debt Collector Licensing and Regulation

Feb 17, 2021 - This total amount includes (1) $10. 7  m illion and 44 p ositions in newly authorized resources and (2) $5. 8  m illion and 27 p ositions in existing resources redirected from CCFPL implementation. The proposed positions would be divided between a licensing and examination unit, an enforcement unit, and a legal division.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4376

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

Mar 11, 2025 - The two proposals discussed in this report would commit $10  million in  2025-26 and $84  million ongoing thereafter in higher discretionary General Fund spending. However, our office currently estimates that the budget is only roughly balanced in 2025-26, and the state will have significant annual operating deficits in the following years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015