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

Apr 3, 2025 - However, the accounting firm ’s evaluation of DFPI ’s established programs found an additional $30  million in unfunded balances across established subprograms that are not in the administration ’s proposed bill.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

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

Mar 18, 2025 - Subsidized employment programs appear more likely to result in long-term benefits when: (1)  employers have a business model that makes it realistic for them to hire participants full time after the program ends and (2)  the target population is women or long-term unemployed workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - For example, the Alisal Fire started on October 11, 2021, and continued until November 20, 2021. However, the Governor proclaimed a state of emergency related to the fire on July 1, 2022 —over seven months after the wildfire ended.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate

Mar 19, 2025 - It is responsible for issuing licenses as well as more broadly regulating California ’s real estate and mortgage lending professionals. More than 425,000 persons in California were licensed by DRE as of June 30, 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5019

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - Figure  1 below provides a summary of these current IT and non-IT projects. Figure 1 Summary of the Current EDDNext Portfolio of IT and Non ‑IT Projects Current IT Projects Description DMS This approved IT project seeks to develop and implement a new system that captures, processes, and manages the large number of documents used by the department
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Once the Governor submits the plan to the Legislature, (1)  the Little Hoover Commission has 30 days to issue a report reviewing the plan and (2)  the Legislature has 60 days to consider the proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

The 2025-26 Budget: Office of Emergency Services—Request for Reappropriation of Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Fund Resources

Feb 24, 2025 - Under the proposal, these funds would be available for expenditure until June 30, 2029. (Unspent funds from 2022-23 and 2023-24 have already reverted.) Assessment Administration Seeks Additional Time in Pilot Phase.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4982

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

Jan 13, 2025 - These solutions yielded General Fund savings of $11  billion through 2025 ‑26. The Governor ’s budget reduces this amount by $1.3  billion through 2025 ‑26. The reason for the reduction is the recent voter approval of Proposition  35 (2024), which requires the state to spend less MCO tax money on offsetting General Fund spending and more money on provider rate increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Feb 19, 2025 - Governor ’s 2025-26 Budget In this section, we discuss (1)  what is assumed in the Governor ’s proposed 2025-26 budget under Control Section 4.05 and 4.12 and (2)  the report that the administration submitted to the Legislature as part of the January 10 budget proposal to identify the assumed savings under these two control sections.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - The four stages of the state ’s PAL process, and some of their associated activities, are briefly described below: Stage 1 Business Analysis. The project identifies its sponsors and stakeholders, justifies its business case, provides the potential outcomes of the project, and initially identifies the project funding source(s) and start date.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011