The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - (The administration indicates it may request that the Legislature take early budget action on the current-year proposal.) As shown in Figure  1, the proposal includes funding for ten categories of activities, with the three largest relating to vehicles (insurance, new vehicle purchases, and fuel).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System

Feb 27, 2026 - OES, in February 2026, indicated that it would deploy statewide Next Generation 911 services in three phases. Phase One. In February 2026, OES reports it will execute an interim contract to move the dispatch centers that are currently using regional Next Generation 911 networks for voice calls to a statewide provider within 90  days.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

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

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Since the passage of Chapter  730 of 2022 (A B  2019 , Brough), OSDS must establish and take remedial actions when state entities have failed to meet their DVBE participation goals in three of five prior years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2021-22 Budget: State Board of Equalization

Feb 23, 2021 - Our inquiries have not indicated a broad consensus among BOE, CDTFA, CalHR, and the Department of Finance regarding the main drivers of BOE ’s high vacancy rate. We suggest that the Legislature engage in further discussions with these entities regarding the sources of this problem and potential remedies for it.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4385

The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization

Feb 25, 2025 - In addition, the administration indicates that HCD potentially could be restructured as part of a reorganization process, with more information to be included in the reorganization plan. Administration Indicates Reorganization Will Improve State ’s Focus on Key Issues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

The 2023-24 Budget: Governor’s Proposals for the Department of General Services

Mar 1, 2023 - Further, at the time A B  2019 was being considered by the Legislature, the fiscal estimate of the bill indicated that it had an unknown fiscal impact ranging in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for DGS to comply with the bill, including conducting the disparity study.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4724

The 2025-26 Budget: State Departments’ Operational Efficiencies (Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12)

Feb 19, 2025 - Many of the departments we communicated with indicated that they have begun implementing at least some of the operational changes that would be necessary to achieve the identified savings in the current fiscal year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

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

Apr 3, 2025 - A DFPI fund condition report provided to the Legislature on February 25, 2025 indicates that the Financial Protection Fund will become insolvent toward the end of 2025-26 and face growing deficits in future years as shown in Figure  1.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 29, 2021 - The administration indicates that the existing Homekey funding will create over 6,000 housing units for individuals and families. The average statewide cost to the Homekey Program per housing unit is $124,000 and the average local match is $24,000, making the average total cost per unit $148,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4468