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

Mar 18, 2025 - Overall, most programs increase employment and earnings among participants while receiving a subsidy. However, the ultimate goal is to improve long-term employment prospects of these workers. Research suggests that it is less common that programs lead to h igher employment or earnings after the subsidy ends.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

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

Mar 11, 2025 - However, many shared that it is labor intensive to administer the living stipend given they must check that Fellows have completed their required monthly hours of service before manually distributing aid each month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - We discuss our understanding of additional information that the administration shared with us in late February 2026 in the bullet points below. Given the work is ongoing, it is possible that some of this information is now out of date.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

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

Feb 27, 2026 - This  technology allows 911 callers to share multimedia emergency communications (voice, video, photos, and text) and improved location data with dispatch centers. It also allows dispatchers to share this data directly with first responders.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - Recent Budget Actions and Proposals to Address State’s Share of UAO This section outlines the state ’s recent supplemental payments for the state ’s share of CalSTRS ’ UAO, as well as the administration ’s related proposal for 2021 ‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Security Proposals

Mar 23, 2023 - CDT and DOF could consider whether information comparable to what is shared with legislative leadership under AB  2135 (that is, compliance certifications and plans of action and milestones) also might be shared for reporting entities to avoid any asymmetry of information sharing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4748

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - EDD = Employment Development Department; IT = information technology; DMS = Document Management System; ICMS/IDM = Integrated Case Management System/Integrated Data Management; SCP = Shared Customer Portal; and PAL = Project Approval Lifecycle.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Firms earning over 50  percent of their total income from a list of “qualified business activities ” (QBA) are subject to a different apportionment method that includes the location of their sales, payroll, and property.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Mar 7, 2025 - Over the past 45 days, the JLBC has reviewed the requested allocation alongside the most current project documentation, gathering some of the information shared in this post. This post, however, does not raise any concerns with the requested $10.4  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

State Assistance to Businesses in Response to COVID-19

Jan 4, 2024 - Although we were not able to obtain data from Lendistry on the demographic characteristics of the businesses owners who received SBCRG at a business level, they have shared statewide demographic data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4824