The 2025-26 Budget: California Military Department—STARBASE Classroom Building

Feb 20, 2025 - Department of Defense-authorized educational program designed to provide elementary- and secondary-aged students with supplemental education in the fields of science, technology, engineering, art and design, and mathematics (STEAM).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4976

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - Figure  3 shows the distribution of the 36 states by the amount of time in which their Governors or Legislatures must act. At the federal level, the National Emergencies Act (NEA) was enacted in 1976 to rein in presidential emergency powers and provides that a national emergency will end automatically after one year unless the President publishes a notice of renewal in the Federal Register.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

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

Apr 3, 2025 - (These can include businesses that issue money orders and traveler ’s checks, as well as those that offer digital payments, such as PayPal and Stripe.) Credit Unions Program. Regulates, supervises, and examines credit unions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate

Mar 19, 2025 - This amount reflects an increase of $2.8  million (about 4  percent) from the revised 2024-25 level. The proposed budget would provide DRE with a total of about 387 positions in 2025-26 —an increase of 3 positions (less than 1  percent) from the revised 2024-25 level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5019

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities [Publication Details]

Apr 10, 2025 - In this report, we describe how the Legislature has delegated some of its core powers to allow the Governor to exercise emergency authorities during a state of emergency. Next, we assess the degree to which this is necessary to facilitate emergency response and whether there are adequate oversight mechanisms in place.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5029

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

Feb 19, 2025 - We recommend that the Legislature use the subcommittee pro cess to solicit information in order to better understand what is assumed in the budget, to ensure that any identified lower levels of spending assumed in the budget are consistent with legislative priorities, and to hold the administration accountable to the savings it says it can achieve.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

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

Mar 11, 2025 - Of the $45  million, about half would be for administrative costs at the state level (through California Volunteers) and half would be for administrative costs at the campus level. Under the Governor ’s proposal, California Volunteers would have about one-third the amount of staff as CSAC, despite College Corps equating to less than 3  percent of the state financial aid that CSAC administers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

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

Mar 18, 2025 - In 2022, the federal government enacted the CHIPS and Science Act. This law aims to support and expand the U.S. semiconductor industry. Among many other provisions, the law established the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) and Natcast.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Figure  2 shows that the Governor ’s 2025-26 proposed budget would provide $3  billion (all funds) for BCSH, of which $531  million is General Fund. Special funds provide a significant share of funding for BCSH ’s business- and consumer services-related functions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

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

Jan 13, 2025 - This  would result in maintaining prior funding levels for these activities but would preclude this amount of Proposition  4 funds from supporting expanded service levels or additional projects. Spending and Tax Expenditure Proposals New Spending Proposals of Nearly $600   Million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951