The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - Department States That High Costs and Low Vacancy Rates Have Created Unique Cost Pressures … CHP states that it cannot depend on its historical approach to fund these activities —and therefore needs the proposed supplemental augmentation —because (1)  inflation and other costs like technology upgrades have led to uniquely higher costs, and (2)  it has comparatively lower officer
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

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

Mar 7, 2025 - For over two decades, SCO —which is responsible for issuing pay to the state workforce —has led state efforts to plan, develop, and implement a new state payroll system. An initial effort —the 21 st Century (TFC)/MyCalPAYS IT project —started in 2004 and was suspended in 2013.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Each agency would be led by a Secretary, who would be a member of the Governor ’s cabinet. The administration indicates that the departments and other entities currently within BCSH would be placed into one of these two new agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - As a result, EDD experienced an historic increase in UI applications that strained the department ’s existing IT systems and (together with other factors) led to delays in processing and payment of UI claims.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

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

Mar 17, 2023 - However, we have seen no evaluation performed by the administration of challenge-based procurements to determine whether, for example, additional planning costs for these demonstrations, proofs of concept, and prototypes led to improved project D &I outcomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4746

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposed Reductions to State Operations

May 21, 2024 - As we indicated in our March analysis, a statewide exercise led by DOF to identify budgetary inefficiencies is a worthy endeavor. While such an exercise could be beneficial in any year, it seems particularly important to minimize unnecessary or duplicative spending when the state faces a budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4903

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Consumer Affairs Organizational Improvement Office

Feb 24, 2023 - Assessment Unclear if OIO Efforts Have Led to Measurable Benefits and Savings . OIO has provided information on multiple workload outcomes, such as the number of business processes it has documented and the recommendations it has made for DCA centralized services, boards, and bureaus.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4704

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

Feb 19, 2025 - Both control sections established statewide administrative exercises led by the Department of Finance (DOF) to (1)  identify efficiencies and (2)  eliminate vacant positions and related funding. 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
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

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

Feb 9, 2022 - Their recommendations led to the All of Us Research Program , which is building a diverse database of genomic and health data to help advance precision medicine biomedical research. All of Us intends to gather health data from more than one million people across all backgrounds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4523

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2024 - This project is led by the California Department of Technology (CDT) and its third ‑party administrator, GoldenStateNet (GSN), in consultation with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4867