The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate

Mar 19, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate Department of Real Estate Background Department of Real Estate (DRE) Both Licenses and Regulates Real Estate Licensees. In California, real estate salespersons and brokers, mortgage lenders, and rental property managers must have a license issued by DRE in order to do business.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5019

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate [Publication Details]

Mar 19, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5019

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - Analysis Target Populations Have Real but Varying Needs. While characteristics of CA RISE participants are not available, data from LA:RISE show that likely participants have difficulty maintaining stable employment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

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

Apr 3, 2025 - Money Transmitters Program. Regulates, supervises, and examines businesses that receive money for transmission and sell or issue payment instruments and stored value. (These can include businesses that issue money orders and traveler ’s checks, as well as those that offer digital payments, such as PayPal and Stripe.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation [Publication Details]

Apr 3, 2025 - In this post, we assess administration-proposed trailer bill language that would increase certain fees charged by the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation and make recommendations to help ensure the department has the resources it needs to meet its oversight and regulatory mission.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5025

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - BCG is expected to develop and pilot an analytical model that could save money in Medi-Cal by detecting pre-payment fraud, reducing improper claims, and flagging areas of possible waste and abuse. Workstream 5: DHCS —Hospital Financing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

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

Feb 25, 2025 - For example, the Department of Real Estate (DRE) provides occupational licensing of real estate agents and mortgage brokers, the California Housing Finance Agency administers financing programs for qualified first-time home buyers, and the Civil Rights Department enforces state anti-discrimination laws in housing and related services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

The 2025-26 Budget: California Military Department—STARBASE Classroom Building

Feb 20, 2025 - The program uses real-world, experiential learning to motivate children to explore educational opportunities in the STEAM fields. The California Military Department (CMD) Offers a STARBASE Program at the Joint Forces Training Base Complex in Los Alamitos .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4976

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

Aug 17, 2023 - Bonds are a way that the state (as well as local governments and private companies) borrows money. The state sells bonds to investors to receive “up-front ” funding for projects and then repays investors, with interest, over a period of time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

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

Mar 1, 2023 - The Department of Real Estate, which is almost entirely funded by its special fund, the Real Estate Fund, has a district office and examination site in the building. Accordingly, if DGS was budgeting for these upgrades as part of its rental rates, the Real Estate Fund —and not the General Fund —would be paying for the department ’s respective share of the  upgrade.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4724