Building California’s Behavioral Health Infrastructure: Progress Update and Opportunities for the Proposition 1 Bond

Feb 5, 2025 - The administration is working quickly to allocate the first $3.3  billion of Proposition  1 bond dollars in May 2025, leaving a brief window in which to assess program outcomes achieved with the initial $1.8  billion and consider whether any changes in program administration are merited.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2018-19 Budget: Meeting Workforce Demand for Certified Nursing Assistants in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Apr 27, 2018 - Assuming that the state streamlines minimum faculty qualifications, we estimate that our recommended approach would fund about 3,000 new enrollment slots (about 1,700 enrollment slots funded by ETP and about 1,300 enrollment slots funded by Proposition  98).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3815

The 2019-20 Budget: Assessing the Governor’s Primary Care Physician Residency Proposals

May 9, 2019 - The bulk of the funds ($ 73  m illion) was to support existing residency slots. The remaining funds were for adding slots at existing programs, funding start ‑up costs for new programs, funding loan repayment programs, and funding associated state operations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4034

Considering Medi-Cal in the Midst of a Changing Fiscal and Policy Landscape

Oct 24, 2025 - In part, this is because the new process will more quickly identify beneficiaries whose household income rises above the eligibility threshold. Some eligible beneficiaries also may struggle to demonstrate their eligibility at the higher frequency due to administrative burden.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 24, 2022 - For this reason, the BHBH program focuses specifically on addressing immediate needs in existing facilities (such as assisted living and senior care facilities) or facilities that are relatively inexpensive and quick to build (such as tiny home villages).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4642

An Update on the Public Health Laboratory System After the Pandemic

Jun 12, 2025 - As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, however, the state ’s public health systems quickly became overwhelmed. CDPH and LHJs did not have enough staff to respond and the demands placed on information technology (IT) systems and public health lab testing quickly exceeded their capacity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5056

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - In addition, the 2021 ‑22 budget provided HCAI  with $60  million General Fund to support the Song ‑Brown Program, intended to increase the number of primary care providers statewide by funding primary care residency training slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - One key reason why this initiative was able to move relatively quickly is that it used an existing program to distribute the product. The Naloxone Distribution Project, which is administered by DHCS, provides free naloxone products by request to hospitals, schools, law enforcement, and other public and community‑based organizations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

The 2020-21 Budget: Re-Envisioning Medi-Cal—The CalAIM Proposal

Feb 28, 2020 - The study found that super ‑utilizers who received the intensive services had comparable rates of subsequent hospital admissions as a control group who did not receive the intensive services. Whole Person Care Evaluation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4185

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - These slots would be on top of the almost 9,000 full ‑day slots the state added over the past three years. Extending preschool to all children from low ‑income families is consistent with considerable research that has concluded the benefits of preschool are greatest for these children.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916