The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - The Naloxone Distribution Project, which is administered by DHCS, provides free naloxone products by request to hospitals, schools, law enforcement, and other public and community‑based organizations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - Under the initiative, the state will provide households with newborn babies a three-month supply of free diapers. The initiative also includes funds to explore other market interventions to reduce the cost of diapers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Health

Oct 22, 2021 - As a result, the new federal subsidies free up most of the General Fund allocated to state subsidies in 2020 ‑21 (due to the timing of when the federal subsidies take effect)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4465

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Health Care Access and Information

Feb 27, 2024 - This downward revision is the result of an assumed $50  million in deferred spending for the CalRx initiative to 2025 ‑26. The initiative supports a public-private partnership to develop and manufacture a biosimilar insulin product.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4860

Building California’s Behavioral Health Infrastructure: Progress Update and Opportunities for the Proposition 1 Bond

Feb 5, 2025 - About one ‑third of the funding has gone to the Naloxone Distribution Project, which aims to reduce opioid overdose deaths through the provision of free naloxone. Other activities funded with the settlements include prevention and harm reduction grants and an education and awareness campaign.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2021-22 Budget: LAO Preliminary Comments on the Governor’s Major May Revision Behavioral Health Proposals

May 24, 2021 - The Governor ’s May Revision includes $45  million one-time CFRF (available over multiple years) to DHCS to continue the CalHOPE Student Support Program, which provides free crisis counseling and support services through a centralized resource website.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4439

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - The federal share of cost in each state generally is determined by a formula, with the share in California at 50 percent. Each state’s specific federal share (in California’s case, 50 percent) also applies to gross pharmacy costs and drug rebate savings, with some exceptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 23, 2023 - The spending plan shifts the elimination of the delay in provider payment processing until 2024-25, which frees up $378  million one-time General Fund in 2022-23. Sweeps Medi-Cal Drug Rebate Fund Reserve.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4810

COVID-19: American Rescue Plan’s Major Health-Related Funding Provisions

May 6, 2021 - The federal government typically pays 50  percent or 56  percent of HCBS costs, with the state General Fund usually covering the nonfederal share. ARP Act Temporarily Enhances Federal Funding for State HCBS Program Improvements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4425

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - The APD process allows the state to request a 90  percent match in federal funding (rather than California ’s standard 50  percent match) to design, develop, and install IT systems that enable the state to more efficiently administer Medicaid benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157