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

Mar 2, 2021 - If the Legislature rejects the Governor ’s proposal, the administration would instead need to allocate these funds through Control Section 28, as is the state ’s typical practice. While the administration ’s proposal was intended to expedite the Control Section 28 p rocess, we find no need for this as the Legislature can already expedite the process, and has done so a number of times during the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4393

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

Apr 3, 2025 - Figure  2 summarizes projected revenues and costs for the eight established DFPI programs and subprograms that the report identified as facing cumulative structural deficits from 2023-24 through 2027-28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure at May Revision

May 23, 2024 - Last-Mile Project Grants Delays $200  Million General Fund From 2025 ‑26 to 2027 ‑28. The May Revision proposes to delay $200  million General Fund for last-mile projects planned for appropriation in 2025 ‑26 by two fiscal years to 2027 ‑28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4906

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

Oct 16, 2025 - These fee increases, which are estimated to generate about $50  million in new revenue through 2027-28, are designed to help DFPI address a significant structural deficit in the Financial Protection Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - CDTFA ’s estimated cost to implement AB  3218 and SB  1230 is $3.3  million in 2024-25, $5.5  million per year in 2025-26 and 2026-27, and $3.1  million in 2027-28 and ongoing. The new laws create penalties that could raise revenue to offset some of these costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Cannabis Control—Legal and Administrative Hearing Costs

Mar 4, 2024 - The Governor ’s budget proposes $8.2  million from the Cannabis Control Fund (decreasing to $8.1  million in 2025-26 and 2026-27 and $1.3  million ongoing beginning in 2027-28) and seven positions to support DCC workload and DOJ and OAH costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4869

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals [Publication Details]

Mar 6, 2026 - In this post, we assess the Governor's California Highway Patrol budget proposals for (1) equipment and operating costs and (2) capital outlay projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5152

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - As shown in Figure  2, the department ’s uniformed officer vacancy rate including temporary positions, is still well above the pre-pandemic levels. Specifically, while the vacancy rate was 2.8  percent in 2019, it then rose to over 9  percent in 2021, and remained at 6.6  percent as of 2024, per the most recent data available.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2021-22 Budget: Funding for Debt Collector Licensing and Regulation

Feb 17, 2021 - For example, based on various assumptions about the amount of time aspects of the licensing and examination process take, DFPI estimates it will need 17 financial institutions examiners in 2021 ‑22 (increasing annually to 28 e xaminers by 2023 ‑24).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4376