California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

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The 2018-19 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 12, 2018 - First, the Governor implements recent legislative initiatives on infrastructure consistent with current law under Chapter 5 o f 2017 (S B  1 , Beall), Chapter   852 o f 2017 (S B  5 , de Le ón), and Chapter 365 o f 2017 (S B  3 , Beall).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3731

The 2025-26 Budget: California Spending Plan Series [Publication Details]

Oct 16, 2025 - Each year, our office publishes California Spending Plan, a series of publications that summarize the annual state budget. The flagship report of this series, Overview of the Spending Plan, is presented here along with short online posts that focus on major areas and features of the 2025-26 budget package. As the posts become available, we will add them below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5105

The 2018-19 Budget: California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 2, 2018 - Receiving the most discussion of any education proposal this year, the budget package also establishes a statewide online college intended to help working adults improve their career technical skills.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/1

The 2018-19 Budget: California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 2, 2018 - Office of Planning and Research Provides $10   Million Ongoing General Fund for New Online Learning Lab. The purpose of the new California Education Learning Laboratory is to expand lower ‑division online and hybrid courses at the state ’s three public higher education segments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/5

The 2021-22 Budget: CalWORKs Fiscal Outlook

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The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan

Oct 16, 2025 - In addition to this report, we will release a series of issue ‑specific, online posts that give more detail on the major actions in the budget package. The Budget Problem For the third year in a row, the state faced a budget problem, or deficit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5079

Federal Spending in California

Jan 18, 2017 - Related Resources We published an initial set of online posts estimating and exploring federal expenditures in California on January 18, 2017. Here, we add additional, related resources as we develop them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3531

The 2018-19 Budget: California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 2, 2018 - Online Traffic Pilot ($3.4   Million). The budget provides $3. 4  m illion to Judicial Council to develop and test different activities related to the online adjudication of certain traffic infractions at a minimum of eight trial courts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/11

The 2023-24 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor's May Revision

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