State Assistance to Businesses in Response to COVID-19

Jan 4, 2024 - Research nationally and in other states has found consistent evidence of racial disparities in the distribution of PPP loans, particularly for Black ‑owned businesses. These findings include, for example, that Black ‑owned firms were about 9  percent less likely to receive PPP loans than similar white ‑owned firms and, among Black ‑owned
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4824

An Overview of Federal Higher Education Relief

Apr 28, 2020 - In addition to incurring these higher costs, many institutions have lost revenue from refunding student c harges for cancelled or dropped classes as well as disrupted on-campus housing, dining, and parking services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4225

The 2021-22 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Spending Authorities

Mar 2, 2021 - Specifically, it allows DOF to ( 1)  i ncrease federal trust fund authority for COVID ‑19 ‑related activities for any department and ( 2)  c reate new items of appropriation to allow departments to receive and spend federal and/or private funds for COVID ‑19 ‑related activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4393

Evaluation of the Statewide Project Management Office

Dec 7, 2017 - This allowed the PMO to test the potential of the centralized project management approach and build the reputation and capacity of the office gradually, with the intention of scaling up to larger, more com plex projects once the office was more established.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3723

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - ICMS/IDM b This proposed IT project seeks to replace the department ’s legacy claims management systems for its programs with a new claims management system. c This system also will integrate with a modern data management system that uses external and internal data sources to help facilitate program claims processing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

The 2019-20 Budget: Department of Consumer Affairs

Feb 13, 2019 - In response to the above requirements, DCA produced a business modernization plan in December 2017 t hat identified the anticipated timing of activities related to development of IT systems for Release 3 b oards and bureaus, such as completing reviews of business activities, completing the Project Approval Lifecycle procurement process, and going live with the new systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3937

The 2019-20 Budget: California Department of Food and Agriculture

Mar 5, 2019 - Specifically, the department should report on ( 1)  w hy the measures it is currently implementing have been insufficient to stop the continuing geographic spread of ACP and HLB, ( 2)  h ow the Governor ’s proposal would address any shortfalls in the current program, ( 3)  w hat targets and outcomes CDFA would use to measure the effectiveness of its ACP/HLB suppression efforts,
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3958

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

Mar 11, 2025 - The CSU system indicates it has thousands of service-learning courses where students are able to volunteer with local organizations while receiving academi c credit. Such efforts exist at the other public higher education segments too.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

A Review of LifeLine Budget Estimates and Enrollment Process

Apr 3, 2019 - As an example, the state Employment Development Department (EDD) funded a similar study in 2015 t hat evaluated reasons for households not participating in the state ’s paid family leave program to inform future outreach efforts and programmatic changes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3995

The 2022-23 Budget: California Department of Technology

Feb 22, 2022 - Figure 3 Sample Comparison of State Data Center and Private Vendor Rates Service a Storage (per GB, per month) $0.26 b Windows Virtual Private Server (per month) c 514.24 Linux Virtual Private Server (per month) c 540.40 181.44 a Features, levels of service, and other service options not available for comparison. b Lowest end of the range, but can be as high as
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4552