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

Jan 13, 2025 - Two key areas where these savings have eroded are in the managed care organization (MCO) tax package and reductions to state operations. These are described in the box below. The forthcoming Appendix 1 will also provide a full list of the solutions from the 2024 ‑25 budget package that generate savings in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 13, 2025 - (FM case s are those where a youth has been the subject of a maltreatment allegation but the child welfare agency determines the youth is able to remain safely at home, with any necessary interventions.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4962

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - This separation of rates from placement type is a key change of the new structure compared to the current interim rates, which are based on the type of setting where a youth is placed (among some other factors).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/6

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The spending plan codifies the program in state law, requiring that CDSS administer the program, subject to appropriation, and providing the department with authority to distribute the funds upon a proclamation or declaration of a disaster or state of emergency by a California county or city.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/3

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot

Feb 21, 2025 - ACF Will Leverage Existing Administrative Data Sources Where Possible for Pilot Performance Tracking and Measurement. It is our understanding that to determine the percentage of work-eligible participants employed six months after exiting the program and the earning levels of these individuals (six and 12 months after program exit), pilot states will submit participant information to ACF, which will then calculate these metrics on the states ’ behalf.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

Federal COVID-19 Response Actions Affecting Older Adults and Persons with Disabilities

Apr 16, 2020 - On April 24, the Governor announced a new partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and cities, counties, and tribes to provide home-delivered meals from local restaurants to older adults.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4221

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - Second, crashes on state highways —where CHP is responsible for traffic enforcement —account for a slight majority of the growth in motor vehicle deaths. Most of the increase in motor vehicle deaths occurred in the second half of 2020, when CHP stops were around the same level as before the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care

Apr 15, 2024 - This approach would free ‑up hundreds of millions of one ‑time General Fund dollars in a time where the state is projected to not have enough state resources to afford existing spending commitments. Reject Proposed Changes to Budget Process and Time Line for New CCTR Slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4893

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Support

Feb 27, 2024 - Child Support Collections for Foster Care Cases Background Federal Government Requires States to, Where Appropriate, Recoup Title IV-E Costs From Families Through Child Support Program. Historically, similar to CalWORKs cases, the federal government required states to —where appropriate —refer parents whose children have been removed from the home and placed into foster care to the child support program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4861

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Specifically, AB  1051 requires the placing county to retain responsibility for providing specialty mental health services to the youth —rather than transferring that responsibility to the county where the youth is placed —for out-of-county placements, with limited exceptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/4