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

Mar 11, 2025 - To provide additional financial aid options to undocumented students, the state created the California Dream Act Service Incentive Grant (DSIG) program, w hich CSAC administers. Similar to College Corps, DSIG provides students who have financial need with up to $4,500 in financial aid per academic year for completing 300 service hours.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

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

Feb 27, 2026 - The  Legislature then enacted Chapter  926  of  2014 (S B  1211 ,  Padilla), which directed OES to develop a plan and time line for testing, implementing, and operating a Next Generation 911 system, including text ‑to ‑911.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Cannabis Control—Legal and Administrative Hearing Costs

Mar 4, 2024 - DCC licenses and regulates commercial cannabis activity, including the cultivation, manufacture, testing, sale, and transportation of cannabis goods. For example, the department oversees testing laboratories that make sure cannabis is safe for consumption, which includes reviewing license applications, conducting routine inspections, investigating complaints, taking enforcemen t actions, and conducting investigative sample analysis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4869

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Proposals

Feb 20, 2022 - W ithout a strategic plan it is unclear why the resources previously provided were insufficient and what the total level of resources that OES would need to effectively support the state ’s emergency response goals is.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4551

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

Mar 2, 2021 - For example, the administration provided a COVID ‑19 fiscal update on August 14, 2020 t hat did not include the estimated cost —potentially reaching $1. 7  b illion —of a testing laboratory contract that the Governor announced on August 26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4393

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Technology Project Proposals

Mar 17, 2023 - A combination of the traditional and agile approaches might develop project scope as modules, but combine the modules into a few discrete releases for implementation to reduce the frequency of user testing and training.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4746

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Sep 23, 2021 - Belo,w we highlight the major provisions of the workforce package: New Regional Grants for Economic Development. The budget agreement includes $600  million one-time ARP fiscal relief funds to start a new grant program for regions to develop and implement regional plans to create jobs in sustainable industries.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4452

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

Jan 10, 2021 - This would allow time for schools to ramp up testing capabilities an d address other implementation issues with a smaller group of students and staff. Alternatively, the Legislature could direct resources to expanding statewide testing capacity and infrastructure that would allow schools to more easily access routine testing as a way to support school reopening.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - Some of these conditions attempt to align the forthcoming May Revision budget proposal (which we discuss later) with the project cost documents o r incorporate additional information that is only available once the primary vendor contract is awarded (such as updated project management and testing plans).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2024 - Billions of dollars will be encumbered and expended over the next fe w fiscal years. To achieve the Legislature’s goals in Chapter 112 of 2021 (SB 156, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) and other broadband infrastructure legislation, legislative oversight of the administration’s implementation of these programs and projects will be critical to their success.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4867