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

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - As shown in Figure  1 , reported state contract dollars received by DVBEs generally increased between 2018 ‑19 and 2022 ‑23. Notably, reported state contract dollars —both going to DVBEs and overall —reversed this general trend and decreased between 2022 ‑23 and 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - Efficiency allows government to better allocate limited resources (for example, taxpayer dollars, personnel, or time) to deliver services to the public. As such, identifying ways for state programs to operate more efficiently should be a goal of regular internal administrative review and legislative oversight.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

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

Mar 11, 2025 - As a result, every dollar of new spending essentially requires making offsetting reductions elsewhere in the budget. Additiona lly, the budget faces a number of notable risks and  uncertainties —including  related to forecasted revenues, federal funding levels, and fire recovery  costs —that  could lead to the General Fund condition worsening over the coming months.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Firms earning over 50  percent of their total income from a list of “qualified business activities ” (QBA) are subject to a different apportionment method that includes the location of their sales, payroll, and property.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - For example, the President can make a Major Disaster Declaration when there is a natural event beyond the capacity of the state and local governments to respond, typically when the amount of damage caused by disaster events exceeds certain per capita dollar thresholds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Figure 1 California ’s Seven State Agencies Vary in Size 2024 ‑25 Enacted Budget (Dollars in Thousands) State Agency Business, Consumer Services and Housing 3,443,387 161,995 a State funds include General Fund, special funds, and bond funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

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

Aug 17, 2023 - The Legislature will want to have an ongoing and active role in monitoring these developments and potentially adjusting the focus of the bond to ensure the dollars are target ed at the areas of highest need.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposed Reductions to State Operations

May 21, 2024 - The proposed control section did not identify a dollar amount for the reduction. Instead, the language indicated that “each item of appropriation” in the budget except the university systems, the Legislature, and the Judicial Branch “shall be adjusted, as appropriate, to achieve savings associated with vacant positions.”
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4903

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - Based on experience with other IT projects with statewide impacts, it is likely these costs will total tens of millions of dollars. Funding for these costs would be individually requested by departments alongside the annual development and implementation funding request from SCO and CalHR for the project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011