The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - Fund R &Rs to offer training to child care providers on how best to serve the unique needs of foster children. Trailer legislation (Chapter  24) does not specify how funds will be allocated across these three purposes or across counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/4

The 2016-17 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 5, 2016 - Slots Budget Package Increases Funding for State Preschool Slots. The budget provides $34  million for the State Preschool program to annualize the cost of preschool slots added January 1, 2015. The budget also provides $8  million for 2,959 new full –day State Preschool slots at LEAs starting April  1, 2017.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3487/4

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan

Sep 6, 2024 - These slots will have full ‑year costs of $305  million beginning in 2025 ‑26. The  budget also modifies and adds into statute details related to the multiyear slot expansion plan. (In 2021 ‑22, the Legislature and Governor agreed to add 206,500 child care slots by 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4922

The 2019-20 May Revision: Sales Tax Exemptions for Diapers and Menstrual Products

May 12, 2019 - Expiration dates provide similar opportunities for tax expenditures, helping the Legislature make the best use of its budgetary resources. However, businesses, consumers, and local governments would benefit from predictability in these policies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4040

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

Oct 2, 2018 - Slots Funds Additional Alternative Payment Slots. The budget provides $ 205  m illion federal funds for 11, 307 n ew Alternative Payment slots starting July 1, 2018. This funding is tied to an increase in the amount of available federal funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/4

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

Oct 2, 2018 - The provisional language requires the Director of Finance to notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee at least 30 days befor e making any such reduction. Provides $240   Million (6.5   Percent) Ongoing General Fund Increase.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/5

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 17, 2019 - Of the ongoing spending increases, $ 301  m illion is for more non ‑CalWORKs slots. (All major child care and preschool programs received an increase in slots, including the State Preschool program, which received an expansion similar to the Governor ’s proposal.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4083

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - These slots would be on top of the almost 9,000 full ‑day slots the state added over the past three years. Extending preschool to all children from low ‑income families is consistent with considerable research that has concluded the benefits of preschool are greatest for these children.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

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

May 15, 2023 - This year, as always, we advise adopting the best possible revenue estimate based on all available economic and revenue data. We do not view revenue uncertainties as a cause for inaction or a reason to adopt optimistic revenue assumptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4769

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - This year, for example, our outlook reflects our best estimates of the effects of H.R. 1: One Big Beautiful Bill Act on the state budget but does not make assumptions about future federal policy changes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091