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

Mar 2, 2021 - Accordingly, we propose a series of recommendations to help achieve this outcome. First, we recommend the Legislature adopt legislation to make fundamental changes to the Governor ’s overall emergency spending authorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4393

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 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - For each workstream, the contract outlines a series of deliverables or milestones that the contractor would be required to meet over the course of a 28-week period as well as the amount of payment it would receive in exchange for doing so.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions [Publication Details]

Oct 16, 2025 - This post discusses features of the state's spending plan that were not covered elsewhere in the 2025-26 Spending Plan series.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5081

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This post discusses features of the state's spending plan that were not covered elsewhere in the 2025-26 Spending Plan series.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Specifically, we identify a series of key questions that we recommend the Legislature consider using when evaluating the Governor ’s reorganization proposal, which are summarized in  Figure  4  and discussed next in more detail.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987