Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - Withheld Payments. Whether withholding payments has deterred prime contractors from failing to provide accurate certifications. Our review of the DVBE program relies on data and information provided by DGS program staff, as well as discussions with various stakeholders and  CalVet.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review [Publication Details]

Dec 2, 2025 - As required by Chapter 80 of 2020 (SB 588, Archuleta), this brief reviews California’s Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE) program. Specifically, it focuses on policies and practices designed to prevent program abuse and noncompliance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5095

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - BCG is expected to develop and pilot an analytical model that could save money in Medi-Cal by detecting pre-payment fraud, reducing improper claims, and flagging areas of possible waste and abuse. Workstream 5: DHCS —Hospital Financing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Accordingly, Chapter  110 (SB  156, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) appropriated an additional $372  million General Fund to CalPERS as a supplemental pension payment to satisfy the Proposition  2 requirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - As a result, EDD experienced an historic increase in UI applications that strained the department ’s existing IT systems and (together with other factors) led to delays in processing and payment of UI claims.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - The 2021 ‑22 Governor ’s Budget proposes to use approximately $410  million of required debt payment funding for the same purpose. We note that the 2021 ‑22 proposed payment is in line with our previous recommendations for allocating Proposition  2 debt payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400

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

Apr 3, 2025 - Regulates, supervises, and examines businesses that receive money for transmission and sell or issue payment instruments and stored value. (These can include businesses that issue money orders and traveler ’s checks, as well as those that offer digital payments, such as PayPal and Stripe.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

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

Jan 10, 2021 - The supplemental payments were intended to accelerate the recovery from this drop, with payments growing from $2.3  billion in 2021 ‑22 to more than $6  billion by 2024 ‑25. Due to the strong rebound in the minimum guarantee, the Governor proposes to eliminate these payments after 2021 ‑22 —effectively making the $2.3  billion included in the 2021 ‑22 budget a one-time payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

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

Jan 13, 2025 - We understand that while the administration indicates it will provide this payment in the future—after the final calculation of the minimum funding requirement—it also has not scored this future obligation in its multiyear budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Sep 23, 2021 - Under the second round, the state Franchise Tax Board will send payments to an estimated 14.2  million taxpayers. Most of the funding will go out in the form of $600 one-time payments to taxpayers with adjusted gross income below $75,000 (taxpayers with dependents will receive an additional $500 payment).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4452