The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - For example, the spending share of residential services has decreased from 46  percent to 38  percent, while the spending share of support and training services has increased from 8  percent to 15  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - Accordingly, the August session budget bill provides $15  million Health Care Affordability Reserve Fund in 2025-26 for the first year of payments. Appendix
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2026-27 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - Medi ‑Cal ’s share of General Fund spending historically hovered at about 15  percent, but ticked upward recently due to rising costs in the program. Last Year ’s Budget Adopted Many Policy Changes in Medi ‑Cal as Budget Solutions .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5092

Mental Health Services Act: LAO Update: The Governor's Revised Behavioral Health Modernization Proposal

Aug 21, 2023 - How August 15 th Amendments to SB  326 Respond to Issue Increased Role for MHSOAC, but Still Overall Reduction in Current Authority Without Justification. The Governor ’s revised proposal would provide for MHSOAC ’s participation, in a consultation role with DHCS, in a number of components of the MHSA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4792

The 2025-26 Budget: Understanding Recent Increases in the Medi-Cal Senior Caseload

Mar 6, 2025 - This translates to about 23,000 seniors, or less than 15 percent, of the at least 165,000 additional seniors due to eligibility expansions. At Least 112,000 of Senior Increase Appears to Be Due to Asset Test Elimination.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - The 2019-20 Budget Act provided a $15  million one-time General Fund to support the Networking California Sickle Cell Care Initiative which established a number of sickle cell disease centers across the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - Specifically, as of the end of the first full year of redeterminations, total Medi-Cal caseload stood at nearly 15  million —more than two million enrollees greater than was projected by the administration in May 2023 and our office in November 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4941

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

Feb 5, 2025 - From 2008 ‑10 to 2018 ‑20, rates of suicide in California among youth aged 15 through 24 increased by more than 20  percent. These troubling trends have accelerated since the COVID ‑19 pandemic and have made improving California ’s behavioral health system a priority for the state ’s policymakers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 23, 2023 - The budget package includes provisional language that authorizes the Department of Finance to augment the funding by up to $15  million if sufficient resources are available in the Opioid Settlement Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4810

Improving Access to Dental Services for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities

Sep 27, 2018 - Currently, 507 RDHAPs are licensed to practice in California and 191 are enrolled as Medi ‑Cal dental program ( “Denti ‑Cal ”) providers. Most travel to provide dental hygiene services —for example, to patients in their homes and at SNFs and ICF/DDs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3884