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 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 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 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 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 19, 2023 - Additionally, the budget achieves budget-year savings through the delay of $345  million previously allocated to HCD ’s Foreclosure Intervention Housing Preservation Program (this spending will instead be spent over several years through 2026-27). $50  Million Reduction Subject to Trigger Restoration for CalHome.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4808

The 2025-26 Budget: California Military Department—STARBASE Classroom Building

Feb 20, 2025 - The department indicates that a new classroom building could accommodate approximately 50 STARBASE classes during the school year, which would effectively eliminate the typical annual program waitlist.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4976

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

Apr 3, 2025 - This fee has not kept up with department costs, and even at the proposed level ($50 —a 100  percent increase), is well below inflation. (Depending on how inflation is adjusted for, the inflation-adjusted level for this fee would be between $246 to $380.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

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

Mar 7, 2025 - The state ’s current payroll system —known as the Uniform State Payroll System (USPS) —is an amalgam of 12 different systems, all of which are aging and some of which were developed nearly 50 years ago.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - At least 50 prime contractors received approval for substitutions between 2021 and 2025. Notifications. A generally accepted best practice is for program administrators to notify a DVBE subcontractor when they are named on a prime contractor ’s bid.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Sep 16, 2022 - This is a significant expansion of the program, which was established in the 2021-22 budget with a $50  million appropriation. Continues Homekey Program. Amendments to the 2021-22 budget provide HCD an additional $150  million General Fund for the Homekey program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4622