The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - What steps has the administration taken to improve recruitment and retention of tobacco enforcement personnel? What additional steps could be taken? What will happen if CDTFA cannot expand its tobacco enforcement workforce despite its growing responsibilities?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

The 2025-26 Budget: State Departments’ Operational Efficiencies (Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12)

Feb 19, 2025 - Governor ’s Proposal Reflects Significantly Lower —Perhaps More Reasonable —Savings From Efficiencies in Most State Departments. The report to the JLBC shows that most state departments are expected to achieve much lower levels of General Fund state operations savings than assumed in the 2024-25 budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - What criteria will SCO and CalHR use to determine which departments to include in each of the onboarding waves? What feedback will be solicited from departments, the primary vendor, and other project stakeholders to inform this determination?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization

Feb 25, 2025 - A key question for the Legislature thus is at what point does a bifurcation make an agency become too siloed and impede its ability to engage in cross-departmental and cross-functional work —the rationale for agencies in the first place?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

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

Mar 11, 2025 - Most college campuses provide some community service and engagement opportunities for their students. For example, Associated Students of CSU Chico created Community Action Volunteers in Education (CAVE).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - On May 18, 2011, Governor Brown terminated 103 states of emergency dating back to June 2004. All of these states of emergency were proclaimed under the previous administration but had not been terminated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

Apr 3, 2025 - Most of the Financial Protection Fund ’s revenues are generated by licensing and registration fees, program assessments (charges levied on regulated entities to cover oversight costs), and examination fees (to cover costs associated with specific audits or inspections).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

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

Mar 18, 2025 - Since these agreements were finalized in 2022 and 2023, and grant milestones are spread out among the five subsequent years, it is still unknown at this point what fraction will ultimately be claimed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Technology Project Proposals

Mar 17, 2023 - For example, while individual efforts and projects are tracked within the portfolio, what efforts or projects are most critical to the success of the modernization effort and/or pose the most risk if they are not successful often is unclear.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4746

The 2025-26 Budget: Office of Emergency Services—Request for Reappropriation of Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Fund Resources

Feb 24, 2025 - This will ensure the Legislature can make an informed decision about what the goals for the program should be and help it eventually assess whether the program should be maintained on an ongoing basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4982