The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - Specifically, the program has not collected conclusive and comparative information as to whether the Climate Action Corps program ’s approach of funding fellows to organize local volunteer efforts is more effective than other types of activities at mitigating the causes and impacts of climate change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723

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

Mar 18, 2025 - Natcast plans to ramp up the facility ’s design and prototyping work over time, once it renovates the facility to enable those types of activities. Governor ’s Proposal $25  Million for Semiconductor Design Facility.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

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

Aug 17, 2023 - In addition, the RAND researchers identified other factors that could reduce the estimated shortfall over time —notably, the availability of mobile crisis response teams, which are being implemented as a Medi-Cal benefit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Proposals

Feb 20, 2022 - Third, the proposal includes funding to align reimbursements provided to local governments for their cost of participating in mobile training exercises for search and rescue teams with their current actual costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4551

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 29, 2021 - The 2021 ‑22 budget provides $2.2  billion ($1.7  billion General Fund) over three years to fund the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program, which will provide grant funding to local entities for behavioral health facilities or mobile crisis infrastructure (contingent on these entities providing matching funds and committing to providing funding for ongoing services).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4468

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - A different data source —the state Position Vacancy Report , which calculates the average annual vacancy rate across all types of staff in the department excluding temporary positions—reports an even higher vacancy rate: 13.6 percent as of 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

State Assistance to Businesses in Response to COVID-19

Jan 4, 2024 - As Figure 6 shows, per business in the area, larger metro regions tended to receive more in both types of assistance, most notably, Los Angeles, San  Francisco, and San Jose. Smaller metro areas —like Ukiah, Crescent City, and Truckee —received much less in both types of assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4824

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - This allowed the Governor to mobilize and coordinate resources ahead of the storm ’s forecasted impacts. Emergencies have also been proclaimed after events causing the emergency conditions have passed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - In addition to episodic disruptions, some of the most affected industries and regions may need to make long ‑term adjustments to remain viable, forcing some workers to relocate, train to adopt new industry practices, or shift to new types of work.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Below, we provide data on the number of cases of potential noncompliance and program abuse, the most common type of alleged abuse, how OSDS responds to these cases, and whether state entities take additional measures to prevent it.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095