The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement

Mar 11, 2025 - Though we recognize the benefits College Corps can provide to students and communities, the program entails significant administrative costs, and students can already par ticipate in volunteer opportunities and receive financial aid through the state ’s established higher education system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

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

Apr 3, 2025 - Money Transmitters Program. Regulates, supervises, and examines businesses that receive money for transmission and sell or issue payment instruments and stored value. (These can include businesses that issue money orders and traveler ’s checks, as well as those that offer digital payments, such as PayPal and Stripe.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - Although, as we understand it, many of the changes are unlikely to require law changes and may be more administrative in nature, the Legislature should have a high-level understanding of how those changes may impact programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

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

Mar 18, 2025 - Some Subsidized Employment Programs Can Be Effective for Some Populations … While there are a variety of program models for subsidized employment, some have stronger evidence of success than others. Overall, most programs increase employment and earnings among participants while receiving a subsidy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - These closures affected an average of about 950,000 students per year in 2017‑18 through 2019‑20. Schools and child care providers will need to plan for how they can maintain continuity of education and services—particularly for more vulnerable and impacted students—as climate change disruptions become more frequent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

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

Jan 13, 2022 - For example, if a segment failed to close a student equity gap as planned, it could be required to report on the strategies it had implemented to date, how it would change those strategies moving forward, and how it would reallocate existing resources.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

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

Jan 10, 2021 - The budget process offers the Legislature an opportunity to consider how the state can best use its resources to help California respond and recover. Appendix Business Assistance: Discretionary Spending Proposals in the 2021 ‑22 Governor ’s Budget (In Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

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

Feb 9, 2022 - Unlike past innovation award programs, this initiative not only would aim to improve student outcomes but also could cover any activity deemed innovative and high impac t, including, but not limited to, programs that improve student outcomes, research on climate change, and research on low ‑carbon industries.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4523

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposed Reductions to State Operations

May 21, 2024 - Money is fungible, if the Legislature were to approve both the unallocated reductions and the proposed budget augmentations to fund new activities, what assurances can the administration provide that the newly approved funding and position authority would be used to implement the new activities and not, instead, used to backfill reductions established through the administrative exercises?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4903

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation [Publication Details]

Apr 3, 2025 - In this post, we assess administration-proposed trailer bill language that would increase certain fees charged by the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation and make recommendations to help ensure the department has the resources it needs to meet its oversight and regulatory mission.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5025