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

Apr 3, 2025 - We also recommend directing DFPI to report annually for three years beginning on January 10, 2026, on the amount of revenue received from each increased fee and how this compares to what the department projected would be received.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

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 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 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

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

State Assistance to Businesses in Response to COVID-19

Jan 4, 2024 - Using this measure, “high representation white ” is defined as zip codes where at least 85  percent of residents are white, “high representation Hispanic/Latino ” is 71  percent, “high representation Black ” is 10  percent, and “high representation Asian ” is 28  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4824

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Introduction On January 10, 2025, Governor Newsom ’s administration presented its proposed state budget to the California Legislature. In this report, we provide a brief summary of the Governor ’s budget based on our initial review as of January 12.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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