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

Feb 19, 2025 - However, other departments indicated that they could not share with us any information about current-year implementation of the identified savings at this time and that more information would be submitted to the Legislature in the spring.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

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 Given the work is ongoing, it is possible that some of this information is now out of date.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

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Lack of data prevents us from determining the effects of the policy on prime contractors ’ compliance with DVBE program rules. Additionally, stakeholders have raised concerns about the $10,000 withholding amount —arguing it may be too small to influence behavior on large contracts and too large for small businesses to manage —though current evidence is inconclusive.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

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: Proposed Reductions to State Operations

May 21, 2024 - It seems highly unlikely to us that permanently reducing roughly $1 in every $10 spent on state operations would have no effect on services. Unclear How to Reconcile State Operation Reductions Alongside Budget Change Proposals for Increased State Operations and Positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4903

State Assistance to Businesses in Response to COVID-19

Jan 4, 2024 - However, Go ‑Biz was unable to provide us with business ‑level demographic data on grant recipients. (We understand that Go ‑Biz cannot request this data from Lendistry because it was not part of the original contract with the entity.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4824

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - Some of the entities may not have included their consultation with Cal ‑CSIC and CDT in their responses to us, but to some degree, nonreporting entities may be using Cal ‑Secure without much guidance from Cal ‑CSIC and CDT to inform their implementation of the  roadmap.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - To date, the administration has not provided us with the details of this proposal. Early Action Proposals. The Governor proposes over a dozen proposals costing $7.8  billion that he is asking the Legislature to pass in the early spring.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309