The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement

Mar 11, 2025 - Overview GO-SERVE Was Established Through Recent Reorganization. The 2024-25 budget package established GO-SERVE as part of a reorganization of the former Governor ’s Office of Planning and Research.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - Integrated Contact Center This project seeks to modernize the department ’s contact center through (among other improvements) additional self ‑service options, enhanced voice recognition, and multi ‑language functionality.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement [Publication Details]

Mar 11, 2025 - This post contains assessments and recommendations related to two proposed budget augmentations: the College Corps program and a new Belonging Campaign.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5015

The 2020 Census: Potential Impacts on California

Dec 13, 2018 - Under the Constitution, each state is guaranteed one seat in the House and the remaining 385 seats are apportioned based on the Census population counts. Based on the 2010 Census, California has the largest delegation of Representatives in the House with 53 seats —accounting for 12  p ercent of the seats.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3909

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - Data do not seem to support the department ’s explanation for why it is unable to use salary savings to cover some costs as it has in the past. As shown in Figure  2, the department ’s uniformed officer vacancy rate including temporary positions, is still well above the pre-pandemic levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - For example, when CDTFA seizes a retailer ’s noncompliant products, this counts as one seizure, regardless of the total amount of product seized. Can the administration provide workload measures that account for some of these limitations?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

The 2019-20 Budget: Increasing Compliance With Unclaimed Property Law

Mar 15, 2019 - Figure  3 shows the annual amount of unclaimed property revenue to the state adjusted for inflation. As the figure shows, General Fund revenue from unclaimed property has remained largely flat for a few decades, even declining slightly in recent years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3978

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

Feb 27, 2026 - Additionally, Next Generation 911 systems can be used to automatically re ‑route 911  calls to other dispatch centers, which can help with high call volumes during natural disasters, large emergencies, or major events; or if one or more dispatch centers stop operating.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

The 2017-18 Budget: Secretary of State Spring Finance Letter

Apr 25, 2017 - The budget committees should seek to understand why the Secretary of State now thinks it will incur significantly higher costs resulting from this legislation. Should This Funding End Five Months Before 2020 General Election?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3656

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - The law requires state entities to set a goal of awarding at least 3 percent of their annual contract value to service‑disabled veteran‑owned businesses. This is commonly known as the “3 percent participation goal.”
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095