The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Flexible Cash Assistance for Survivors of Crime Grant Program Reversion. To help address the fiscal difficulties facing the state, the budget reverts $50  million General Fund from the Flexible Cash Assistance for Survivors of Crime pilot program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - As the figure shows, most of the discretionary increases are to finance some capital outlay projects with cash instead of lease revenue bonds. This increases the size of the budget  problem. $800   Million in Other Differences.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

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

Mar 18, 2025 - For example, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, the state-federal cash assistance program for low-income households, fully or partially subsidizes the wages of selected CalWORKs recip ients for six months to a year in some counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

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 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - The Governor proposes to pay down $8.4  billion of this amount, with districts receiving the associated cash in 2021 ‑22. Slightly more than $4  billion would remain deferred from 2021 ‑22 to 2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2024 - Awards will be in the form of a debt service reserve —that is, a cash reserve of funds to make debt service payments if a project ’s cash flow is delayed or disrupted —guaranteed by a CPUC reserve fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4867

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