The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 29, 2021 - Requires HCFC to allocate no more that 40  percent of this allocation to a county. CoCs. $240  million to CoCs based on each COCs share of the state ’s total 2019 point-in-time homelessness count. Requires HCFC to allocate no more than 40  percent of this allocation to a CoC.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4468

The 2021-22 Budget: Peace Officer Training Mandate

Feb 4, 2021 - The Commission estimates that the initial state cost of claims from local governments related to the mandate since 2016 c ould range between $2. 5  m illion and $5. 3  m illion. Additionally, the Commission estimates that the annual costs for the mandate going forward could range between $324,000 and $ 2  m illion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4344

The 2026-27 Budget: Office of Emergency Services Next Generation 911 System

Feb 27, 2026 - It was expected that the Next Generation 911 system would be fully implemented in 2022 and that the five ‑year cost to develop the system would be $132  million, with ongoing operational costs of $40  million annually beginning in 2022 ‑23. 2019 —Revenue Increased, Text ‑to ‑911 Required, and State Contracts Signed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Technology Project Proposals

Mar 17, 2023 - According to CDT and the Department of Finance (DOF), 40 budget proposals in the Governor ’s 2023-24 budget are related to IT project proposals (Figure  2). These proposals request a total of $641  million ($432  million General Fund) and 275.2 positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4746

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals [Publication Details]

Mar 6, 2026 - In this post, we assess the Governor's California Highway Patrol budget proposals for (1) equipment and operating costs and (2) capital outlay projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5152

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - As shown in Figure  2, the department ’s uniformed officer vacancy rate including temporary positions, is still well above the pre-pandemic levels. Specifically, while the vacancy rate was 2.8  percent in 2019, it then rose to over 9  percent in 2021, and remained at 6.6  percent as of 2024, per the most recent data available.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2022-23 Budget: Secretary of State Request to Waive Business Filing Fees

Feb 7, 2022 - For example, between 2011 ‑12 and 2020 ‑21, year ‑over ‑year growth in revenues ranged from a 40  percent increase in revenues between 2013 ‑14 and 2014 ‑15 (from $50.7  million to $71.1  million) and a 5  percent decrease between 2017 ‑18 and 2018 ‑19 (from $87.8  million to $83.3  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4516

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

Mar 7, 2025 - The approved baseline cost of the CSPS IT project is about $1.2  billion, of which roughly 60  percent (or $700  million) is General Fund and 40  percent (or $450  million) is from the Central Service Cost Recovery Fund —a fund that recovers the costs incurred by certain agencies and departments for services shared by nearly all departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - In June 2025, the administration estimated that this endeavor would result in annual General Fund savings of $500  million in 2025-26, growing to roughly $2  billion General Fund annually by 2028-29.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

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

Feb 19, 2025 - The report had identified about $40  million General Fund in savings from CalFire (about 6  percent of the total identified General Fund savings). Because these savings were initially included in the Governor ’s January proposal, this and any other savings or eliminated positions in the report associated with departments now exempted from the exercises would further erode the savings that were originally assumed in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975