The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - However, the administration indicates that the work could have other benefits, such as improving the quality of health care or reducing unnecessarily bureaucratic processes, thereby freeing up staff time to address other workload.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This foundation operates the Imagination Library, which mails books free of charge to children under age five. Proposition  2 (2024) Workload. The budget provides DGS $59.5  million over 5 years (including $12.5  million in 2025-26) from the 2024 State School Facilities Fund and $356,000 ongoing from various funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2022-23 Budget: California Department of Food and Agriculture

Feb 1, 2022 - Specifically, the department is required to report on the following: (1)  the total number of grants and amount of funding awarded; (2)  the number of schools and students served; (3)  the number of schools and students served by applicable community ‑need metrics (such as free/reduced meal rates); (4)  the geographic distribution of awarded grants; and (5)  an assessment, to the
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4510

The 2022-23 Budget: Secretary of State Request to Waive Business Filing Fees

Feb 7, 2022 - Because we do not view the business filing fees to be a barrier for new businesses, we recommend that the Legislature reject the proposal —freeing up the funding for other legislative priorities. If the Legislature chooses to approve the proposal, we recommend amendments to budget bill language to clarify legislative intent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4516

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

The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - Essentially, the Legislature will want to consider whether it wants to make reductions —either those proposed by the Governor or equivalent alternatives —to free up resources for continuing the Youth Jobs Corps program using state funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723

The 2022-23 Budget: Office of Planning and Research Budget Proposals

Feb 9, 2022 - The remaining $1  million would support the expansion of a free adaptive learning homework system. The existing system, which was developed by faculty at UC  Davis, CSU San Bernardino, and Mendocino College for introductory chemistry, was supported by a one ‑time CELL grant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4523

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Sep 23, 2021 - The budget package also makes changes to the California Small Business Technical Assistance Expansion Program, which contracts with small business technical assistance centers to help small businesses and entrepreneurs through free or low-cost one-on-one consulting and low-cost training.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4452

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - The Legislature could use the funding it frees up from funding fewer proposals to address district cost pressures (such as rising pension costs), or it could set this funding aside in the Proposition  98 Reserve for future allocation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492