Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Ultimately, 51 counties and 2 Title IV ‑E tribes opted to participate and are receiving the one ‑time state block grant dollars. To participate, DSS required counties to prepare CPPs for approval by DSS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

Preliminary Assessment of Significant Changes to State's Technology Project Approval and Oversight Processes

Apr 29, 2025 - Under PDL, state entities would begin by (1)  identifying and refining a business problem to be solved by GenAI technology, (2)  using an RFI 2 or comparable procurement method to solicit and select one or more vendors for a POC, and (3)  analyzing the POC results to select one or more vendors for a “minimum viable product ” (or MVP).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5034

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot

Feb 21, 2025 - The system, implemented in July 2021 (after a COVID-19-related delay in 2020-21), includes 26 performance measures outlined in Figure 2. A workgroup of CDSS and legislative staff, county representatives, the County Welfare Directors Association of California, CalWORKs recipients, and other relevant entities selected the performance measures to align with the
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot [Publication Details]

Feb 21, 2025 - The previously selected pilot states will not be subject to work participation rate requirements for federal fiscal year 2025. More information is available on the ACF website . Reports by Policy Area
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4978

The 2021-22 Budget: California State Payroll System IT Project

Feb 2, 2021 - Phase 1 will involve the release of a solicitation for vendors to bid, meetings to answer vendor questions, and state evaluation of vendor bids with likely no more than three vendors selected for Phase 2.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4339

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - Without a methodology that links funding to workload, funding could become insufficient or exceed what is required for efficient operations without a clear way of assessing what adjustments are needed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2025-26 Budget: CWS-CARES

Mar 5, 2025 - The project ’s transition to its holistic design approach does not delay the expected CWS-CARES V1 completion in October 2026, but does (1)  shift milestones from EUST 2 to EUST 3; (2)  extend EUST 3 from four to six weeks (given the significant number of milestones in the EUST); and (3)  require EUST 4 validation and training activities to occur at the same time, compressing the project time line.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5006

The 2025-26 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 19, 2025 - Some of the year-over-year changes in CalWORKs General Fund and TANF funds (shown above in Figure  2) are due to these adjustments. Availability of TANF Carry Forward Impacts General Fund in CalWORKs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4969

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - (We also include links to Appendix tables at the end of this post and the top left of this page. These appendix tables itemize select proposals by policy area based on our understanding at this time.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

The 2021-22 Budget: California Department of Technology

Feb 8, 2021 - The proposed use of General Fund for these proposals, instead of CDT ’s traditional cost recovery fund, also is intended to (1)  provide a more stable source of funding for services provided to most state government entities, and (2)  fund more proactive and targeted service delivery by CDT to state entities instead of state entities paying CDT to provide select services or remediate specific issues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4356