The 2026-2027 Budget: California Cannabis Control Appeals Panel Permanent Funding Request

Feb 11, 2026 - Funding for CCAP was reauthorized twice (in 2020-21 and 2023-24), each time on a three-year, limited-term basis. The revised 2025-26 budget for CCAP includes $3.4  million CCF and 13 positions. Provisional Licensees Did Not Have Appeal Rights, Which Contributed to Dearth of Cases Between 2017-18 and 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5119

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review [Publication Details]

Dec 2, 2025 - Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review [Publication Details] Description: As required by Chapter 80 of 2020 (SB 588, Archuleta), this brief reviews California’s Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE) program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5095

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - In a November 2022 referendum, voters approved Chapter  34 of 2020 (SB  793, Hill), which bans most sales of flavored tobacco products. ( “Flavored ” refers to non-tobacco flavors, such as menthol cigarettes or fruit-flavored e-cigarettes.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control

Feb 24, 2023 - Licensees had to self-certify that they met the eligibility requirements for the waiver, which include that the licensee had an eligible license type that was active from March  1, 2020 to December 21, 2020, and that the licensed premises ’ primary operation was disrupted by health and safety restrictions imposed in response to the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4705

The 2022-23 Budget: Secretary of State Request to Waive Business Filing Fees

Feb 7, 2022 - For example, between 2011 ‑12 and 2020 ‑21, the General Fund received $179  million from the special fund. The amount transferred to the General Fund has varied significantly year to year, ranging from $5  million in 2011 ‑12 to $36  million in 2017 ‑18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4516

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Chapter   80 of 2020 (S B   588 , Archuleta) —which, among other things, directs state entities to withhold up to $10,000 from the final payment otherwise due to a prime contractor if that prime contractor does not certify various pieces of DVBE ‑related information.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

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

Apr 3, 2025 - The resulting report identified a structural deficit dating to 2020-21 caused by both cost and revenue factors. Cost factors included annual salary adjustments and startup costs for the three new programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

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

Jan 10, 2021 - A few of these proposals —like academic support for K-12 students and emergency financial aid for community college students —overlap with recent federal action. While a number of proposals increase funding to existing state programs, others are mostly new, like those related to promoting sustainable agriculture.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - In July 2020, the Governor formed a strike team to address the delays and in September 2020, the strike team released its assessment of the department ’s challenges in administering the UI program and its recommendations to solve them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - Specifically, because of the 2020 ‑21 suspension, the state ’s contribution rate beginning July 1, 2020 is 0.5  percentage points lower than it would have been in absence of the suspension. (We note that the administration took one ‑time action in 2020 ‑21 to offset this action and proposes additional one ‑time action for 2021 ‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400