The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - For each workstream, the contract outlines a series of deliverables or milestones that the contractor would be required to meet over the course of a 28-week period as well as the amount of payment it would receive in exchange for doing so.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This post discusses features of the state's spending plan that were not covered elsewhere in the 2025-26 Spending Plan series.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions [Publication Details]

Oct 16, 2025 - This post discusses features of the state's spending plan that were not covered elsewhere in the 2025-26 Spending Plan series.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5081

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

Feb 27, 2026 - Then, in the 15 subsequent years, the state took a series of steps towards this goal including, but not limited to, the following key  milestones: 2010 —First Roadmap Developed. In December 2010, the Schwarzenegger administration released a proposed Next Generation 911 roadmap, which outlined key tasks, decision points, and work products necessary to develop a statewide Next Generation 911 system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Specifically, we identify a series of key questions that we recommend the Legislature consider using when evaluating the Governor ’s reorganization proposal, which are summarized in  Figure  4  and discussed next in more detail.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

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

Feb 19, 2025 - As we discussed in our March 2024 analysis , May 2024 analysis , and part of our 2024-25 spending plan series , the budget assumed that these two exercises combined would (1) result in General Fund savings totaling $2.9 billion ($200 million of which was assumed from the universities) in 2024-25 and $3.6 billion ($774 million of which was assumed from the universities) in 2025-26 and ongoing and (2) reduce the number of vacant positions by about 10,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Sep 23, 2021 - From the increased amount of credits, $75  million is for recurring television series and $15  million is for television series that relocate to California from other states. The budget package also places new limits on the total amount of credits any one recurring television series may receive.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4452

The 2021-22 California Spending Plan: Home- and Community-Based Services Spending Plan

Nov 1, 2021 - This post summarizes the state’s 2021-22 spending package for Home- and Community-Based Services. It is part of our Spending Plan series, which contains posts focused on each major sector of the state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4469

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - This post is one of a series of analyses on the various components of the Governor’s Behavioral Health Modernization proposal. Earlier posts analyzed SB 326 (Eggman), which would make far-reaching changes to the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

The 2021-22 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Spending Authorities

Mar 2, 2021 - Accordingly, we propose a series of recommendations to help achieve this outcome. First, we recommend the Legislature adopt legislation to make fundamental changes to the Governor ’s overall emergency spending authorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4393