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

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

Apr 3, 2025 - These include the following: Investment Program. Regulates the offer and sale of certain financial securities and franchises, and licenses and examines broker-dealers and investment advisors. (Financial securities are tradable financial assets, such as stocks and bonds.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2024 - Unserved areas and households are generally defined as those without access to broadband (as defined by the FCC). (In this brief, we use the terms households and locations interchangeably.) Underserved areas and households can be defined as those with access to broadband but without access to broadband at faster Mbps download and upload speeds with higher reliability and/or lower latency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4867

The 2023-24 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Mar 20, 2023 - Recent Major Funding Increase for Federal Broadband Programs Federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Included $65   Billion for Broadband Programs Nationwide. In November 2021, the federal IIJA was signed into law providing $65  billion for broadband programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4747

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - Creditable compensation includes educators’ salaries, as well as other eligible pay, such as pay earned for teaching a summer school class. Contribution Rates . The amounts that the state, employers, and members are required—by law and given board authority—to contribute to CalSTRS, calculated annually as a percentage of creditable compensation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400

The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - Without such information, the Legislature cannot determine whether continuing th e Youth Jobs Corps represents the best investment of state funds, or if other program structures or activities are a more effective way to pursue youth workforce development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Figure 2 Underutilization Was the Most Common Type of Alleged Violation January 2021 to April 2025 Alleged Violation Number of Cases Reported Underutilization Occurs when a prime contractor does not use a Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE) subcontractor to the extent listed in the initial bid without a justified reason, such as a change in the scope of work. 34 Occurs
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - Identifying efficiencies in state government can result in budgetary savings without reducing service levels. However, it is difficult to achieve large levels of savings through operational efficiencies alone (that is, without changes to policy or service levels).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2026-2027 Budget: California Cannabis Control Appeals Panel Permanent Funding Request

Feb 11, 2026 - However, without dat a from completed CCAP cases, this is unknown. Recommendation Provide Funding on a Three-year, Limited-Term Basis and Require Workload Report. We recommend that the Legislature approve the proposed funding on only a three-year, limited-term basis, as it has done in past years when the panel ’s resource needs were not known.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5119

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure at May Revision

May 23, 2024 - As one of the few discretionary spending proposals in the Governor ’s January budget, the elimination of this additional funding frees up General Fund resources in 2024 ‑25 and 2025 ‑26 without reducing core state services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4906