The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - In such cases, this rigid approach would result in resources being tied up unnecessarily for most of the year, undercutting the state ’s priority of quickly deploying funds for developers to build projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - These changes are aimed at allowing participants to more quickly move into WTW activities most appropriate for their skills, previous education, and circumstances. Expands List of WTW Activities in Statute.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/2

Preliminary Assessment of Significant Changes to State's Technology Project Approval and Oversight Processes

Apr 29, 2025 - PDL is more incremental and iterative than PAL, which means state entities could determine more quickly whether a vendor ’s technical solution to their program or service problem actually works. If not, CDT could suspend or terminate the project before additional resources are expended, thereby reducing risk to the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5034

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - Because CAPP is designed to be a time-limited program in response to the pandemic and CSD aims to disburse finds as quickly as possible, trailer bill language exempts the department from creating regulations for the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/6

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Federal Fiscal Responsibility Act's Impacts on CalWORKs

Mar 5, 2024 - Depending on how quickly and significantly caseload changes, California may face a future scenario where a program like WINS could again be helpful in ensuring the state can meet its WPR targets. Legislature Might Consider Future Goals for WINS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4877

The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare

May 24, 2024 - One aspect we are working with the administration to better understand is whether certain counties or grantees may be expending funds more quickly than others, and whether there are opportunities to reallocate any remaining dollars across counties to maximize program utilization.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909

The 2020-21 May Revision: CalWORKs Caseload-Driven Costs in the 2020-21 May Revision

Jun 2, 2020 - The lack of historic precedents for such a large and quick economic downturn complicates any effort to forecast secondary effects such as the impact  on CalWORKs caseload. Further compounding these challenges, neither the administration nor our office has seen CalWORKs caseload data more current than February 2020, before the initial wave of COVID-19-related unemployment. ...But Expansion of Unemployment Benefits Provides Important Buffer for CalWORKs Caseload Growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4249

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 28, 2017 - In particular, counties may have difficulty quickly adjusting to more significant changes in funding levels, as appears to have been the case from 2013 ‑14 through 2015 ‑16, when counties underspent the budgeted single allocation as it grew.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576/1

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care

Apr 15, 2024 - Depending on how quickly AP agencies ramp up internal capacity to administer new CAPP slots, families may also be served earlier. This proposal, however, would effectively eliminate legislative oversight of total CAPP funding levels by allowing DSS to issue and execute contracts with additional slot funds prior to the Legislature enacting a state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4893

The 2020-21 Budget: Governor’s Information Security Proposals

Feb 25, 2020 - A number of state government entities connect to CGEN, which allows SOC to identify and respond more quickly to any attacks and/or threats to these entities. SOC also transmits any information about attacks and/or threats to Cal-CSIC to determine if, for example, other government and/or private sector entities are responding to similar attacks and/or threats.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4176