The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - New Tax Expenditures of $150   Million. The Governor ’s budget includes some revenue proposals, which would expand existing tax expenditures and create new ones. This includes increasing the existing film tax credit from $330  million to $750  million per year and excluding some military retirement income from taxation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - It also identifies the $6.3  billion in state and local expenditures identified as countable as MOE expenditures, more than satisfying the state ’s $2.8  billion requirement. Oversight of Funding Freeze Risk Is Warranted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Relatedly, action taken in Chapter  27 of 2025 (AB  1138, Zbur and Allen) makes additional changes to version 4.0, including but not limited to: increasing the size of tax credit awards as a percentage of qualified expenditures, expanding the range of productions that are eligible for the credit, and enhancing the size and scope of the Career Pathways Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - State Would Benefit From Leveraging Federal 9   Percent and State Tax Credits Too. The  Governor ’s budget is in some ways incomplete in that it is silent on the treatment of federal 9   percent tax credits and state tax credits for the proposed set ‑aside pool.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System [Publication Details]

Mar 6, 2026 - In this brief, we provide background on affordable housing and affordable housing funding programs, describe and analyze the Governor’s budget proposals related to affordable housing funding, and provide recommendations to the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - As part of the 2012 IHSS MOE, beginning in 2012 ‑13, all counties were required to maintain their 2011 ‑12 expenditure levels for IHSS, to which an annual growth factor of 3.5  percent was applied beginning in 2014 ‑15.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - …And Anticipated Program Growth … Additionally, the 2025-26 spending plan includes expenditure increases for certain child welfare program elements that typically increase from year to year. For example, expenditures for the home-based family care rate —namely the monthly care and supervision payments made to foster caregivers and for kinship and adoptive
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/6

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - Expenditure authority for some of the temporary augmentations, such as the Emergency Response increases and components of the complex care needs funding, are set to expire in the current year (June 30, 2026).
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - In some cases, this can lead to counties making additional expenditures to cover costs above what can be covered with state funding approved in the budget act. To try to address this, the Legislature has taken steps to require that the administrative budgeting methodologies for both CalFresh and IHSS are reevaluated every three years, with a report to the Legislature on potential changes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The spending plan also includes supplemental report language directing the department to submit quarterly progress updates to the Legislature on activities and expenditures related to LOIS. Policy and Other Actions Includes Legislative Intent Regarding Master Plan for Developmental Services Implementation and Reporting.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/1