The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Policy and Other Actions Includes Legislative Intent Regarding Master Plan for Developmental Services Implementation and Reporting. In March  2025, the administration published the Master Plan for Developmental Services following several months of committee and stakeholder meetings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/1

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Policy and Other Actions Codifies the Master Plan for Developmental Services. The Governor ’s budget proposed that DDS develop a Master Plan for Developmental Services with the intent to improve the experience of individuals and families receiving developmental services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/1

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - For example, according to the state plan, Nurse ‑Family Partnership currently is operated (primarily by county public health departments) in 22 counties, and specially trained Master ’s level therapists offer Parent ‑Child Interaction Therapy in 40 cities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - Some nonreporting entities were unaware of how to achieve compliance with state IS policies, procedures, and standards, and requested that CDT provide certification and education opportunities to help existing IS and IT  staff learn how to improve their compliance efforts and train others.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - It is unclear how the legal questions around the federal funding freeze will be resolved. Should the freeze be implemented, the state could be faced with losing access to federal TANF funding for weeks or longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - We examine how these cost drivers have changed alongside policy changes in the program and the state overall. Taken together, these cost drivers account for much of the overall growth in the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

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

Mar 5, 2026 - To some extent, the benefit of additional funding will depend on how automation proceeds. As a result, it will be necessary to reevaluate any additional support provided over time as implementation proc eeds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - To what extent and how have DSS and program partners been able to address these issues? Is further Legislative guidance (or anything else) needed to address any remaining barriers? For programs that received one-time funding or augmentations, how sustainable are program gains?
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Mar 3, 2026 - The state has full discretion over whether and how to provide increases to the SSP portion of the grant. Until it was ended in 2011, the state had a statutory annual COLA. These COLAs generally reflected whole-grant COLAs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - This post then describes aging-related budget ac tions in other state programs and departments and summarizes progress made in the 2022-23 budget to implement the policy goals and recommendations included in the Master Plan for Aging (MPA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/5