The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - To encourage survey completion, the department offered trainings to providers on the data collection surveys and sent weekly e ‑mail reminders to remind providers to submit their data before the deadline.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - These include funds for water recycling, wildfire prevention activities at state parks, and dam safety activities. The proposal would then provide a like amount of funding from Proposition  4, the climate bond approved by voters in November 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Analysis

Mar 2, 2026 - The Governor ’s budget assumes there will still be a health plan tax in 2027, but at a much smaller revenue level than before. The administration has not provided detailed information on its assumed new tax, but we understand it would generate net revenue in the mid ‑tens of millions of dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5146

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - In the short run, the policy could encourage more adults with UIS to enroll in comprehensive coverage before enrollment closes. This effect is uncertain, however, as take ‑up of comprehensive coverage may have already been quite high before the state enacted this solution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092

Considering Medi-Cal in the Midst of a Changing Fiscal and Policy Landscape

Oct 24, 2025 - Given the complexity of these questions, we recommend the Legislature begin early conversations about its priorities during next year ’s hearings, even before all of the H.R.  1 changes have gone into effect.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - (These asset limits reflect the higher limits that temporarily applied before the asset test was fully phased out in January 2024. Prior to 2021-22, the asset limits were $2,000 per individual and $3,000 per couple.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2025-26 Budget: Understanding Recent Increases in the Medi-Cal Senior Caseload

Mar 6, 2025 - Figure  10 shows the average number of Medi ‑Cal enrollees over 65 who are enrolled in Medi ‑Cal for the first time in their lives in four selected time periods —before the continuous coverage period, during continuous coverage but before the asset test phase out, the asset test phase ‑out period, and finally after elimination of the asset test.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - These conditions decrease the amount of spring and early summer snowmelt runoff upon which the state historically has depended for its annual water supply, at the same time that they increase the demand for irrigation water in both agricultural and urban settings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - CalEPA = California Environmental Protection Agency; CalFire = California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection; CalRecycle = California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery; CARB = California Air Resources Board; ZEV = zero ‑emission vehicle; CCC = California Conservation Corps; CEC = California Energy Commission; CNRA = California Natural Resources Agency; DFW = Department of
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432/7

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - Before wading into the Governor ’s workforce development package, we encourage the Legislature to consider what problems it wishes to solve by allocating additional funds to workforce development efforts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492