The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - The spending plan also includes a $2.5  million reappropriation for the Governor ’s Advisory Council on Physical Fitness and Mental Well-Being. Modifies State Vaccine Guidance. The August session trailer bill (Chapter  105 of 2025 [AB  144, Committee on Budget]) modifies state law ’s requirements around federal vaccine guidance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Restructuring of the MHSA Funding Categories and Impacts on County Spending

Jul 13, 2023 - Current Programs That Would Fit Under the Proposed BHSS Category Likely Would Be Reduced Due to Funding Limits. Figure  5 provides a breakout of how current funding categories appear to align with the Governor ’s proposed categories.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4782

Mental Health Services Act: Impact of Governor's Proposal on Funding for Children and Youth

Aug 10, 2023 - Possible Changes to County Spending Some Current Children and Youth Programs That Would Fit Under Proposed BHSS Category Likely Will Have to Be Reduced. We estimate that the total current county expenditures that would be classified under the BHSS category—across all populations—is $1.34 billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4786

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Health

Apr 5, 2022 - Figure 2 Climate Change Impacts on Health: Key Issues for Legislative Consideration How should state health policies and programs fit within the broader suite of adaptation activities? How can the state improve monitoring and analyses of health effects?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4580

The 2023-24 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s Major Behavioral Health Proposals

Feb 16, 2023 - The proposal appears to fit within the state ’s broader efforts on expanding access to behavioral health services and many of the proposals within the demonstration, such as expanding the number of community ‑based services counties may receive federal reimbursement for, have merit in this context.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4689

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - However, as discussed earlier, how several augmentations within the proposed package would fit within the structure of existing workforce de velopment programs is unclear. Accordingly, new workforce development programs may need to be created to administer some of the funding in this proposed package.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

Mental Health Services Act: Revenue Volatility and the Governor’s Proposal to Reduce Allowable County Reserves

Jul 13, 2023 - Specifically, this category would include programs currently funded in the CSS and prevention and early intervention categories that would not fit within either the newly created FSP or housing categories, workforce, education and training, capital facilities, technological needs, innovative behavioral health p ilots and projects, and prudent reserves.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4780

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s Major Behavioral Health Proposals

Mar 3, 2022 - The Legislature may wish to consider how behavioral health fits within the state ’s homelessness strategy, what the long ‑term vision for the crisis continuum is, and how cross ‑departmental coordination to address behavioral health issues can be facilitated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4569