The 2019-20 Budget: Department of State Hospitals

Feb 13, 2019 - The department also indicates that courts have com plained about the quality of the work carried out by some clinicians. Reduces Quality of Care. This workload takes away time clinicians could otherwise spend treating their patients.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3936

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate

Mar 19, 2025 - In California, real estate salespersons and brokers, mortgage lenders, and rental property managers must have a license issued by DRE in order to do business. (Real estate salespersons, also known as real estate agents or Realtors, work with a broker.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5019

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 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System

Feb 27, 2026 - How Do the Options Compare? How do different options compare on parameters such as cost, effectiveness of addressing the problems encountered to date, and length of time to decommissioning of the legacy 911 system?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - In 2023 ‑24, 369 unique DVBEs were doing business as a prime contractor, and 220 were doing business as subcontractors, with state entities that use FI$Cal. However, the actual number of unique DVBEs with active state contracts may be higher because some departments that make significant use of DVBEs —such as the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - The budget includes $1.3  million from the General Fund for the incremental preliminary plans and working drawing phases of the Sawtooth Ridge radio communication tower and associated support infrastructure as part of the CHPERS project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - Requiring the California Department of Public Health to assist the San Bernardino County Division of Environmental Health Services (SBDEHS) until the division could attain normal staffing levels following a 2015 terrorist attack on a training session involving 80 SBDEHS  employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - Second, startup firms often generate negative profits for many years before turning a profit (if at all), potentially over the timeframe that tax credits can be carried forward. Evidence Points to Effectiveness of Tax Credit for Job Creation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California

Nov 5, 2020 - Support Essential Work. While the pandemic is ongoing, some workers, often called essential workers, cannot do their jobs remotely and work in sectors of the economy that are necessary for the needs of society.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4292

Update on Los Angeles’ Bid for the 2024 Olympics

Mar 23, 2017 - Thus, “even though LA  2024 did not set aside amounts for market risk and owner ‑directed changes, ” as similar events sometimes do, the budget ’s “contingency is reasonable given the temporary nature of the works, the current level of design, and present stage in the budget process. ” Federal Government Role Olympics are mega ‑events, requiring billions of
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3622