The 2025-26 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor's May Revision

May 17, 2025 - Key proposals include limiting provider overtime and travel hours in the IHSS program (about $700  million, growing to nearly $900  million), reducing Medi ‑Cal payments to clinics that serve patients with unsatisfactory immigration status ($450  million, growing to $1.1  billion), and eliminating certain long ‑term care facility benefits for this population (about $300  million, growing to $800  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5044

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - . $800   Million in Other Differences. Across the rest of the budget, our estimates of baseline spending —for example, for caseload growth, federal reimbursements, and statutory cost increases —and constitutional requirements —for example, for infrastructure and deposits into reserves —differ , on net, by $800  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2024 - The largest include: a nearly $800 million reduction to state departments’ operation budgets, proposed to be allocated through departments’ vacancy rates; about $500 million in savings to continue an existing two‑week delay in Medi‑Cal payments; a $500 million reduction to the school facilities aid program; and a $350 million reduction to legislative district projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4825

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: The State Appropriations Limit

Sep 30, 2022 - The spending plan includes about $800  million in new discretionary spending that counts as a subvention and $115  million in new discretionary spending that counts as a federal or court mandate. (The spending plan also begins excluding billions of dollars in existing spending as subventions as a result of an expansion of the definition of subvention, which we discuss in the next section.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4631

The 2022-23 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 17, 2021 - Then, in 2023 ‑24, the full phase out will raise General Fund costs by another $800 million. …Which Likely Will Be Offset Partially by Other Savings Resulting From the End of the PHE Declaration. With the assumed expiration of the enhanced federal funding at the end of March 2022, the continuous coverage requirement also will end.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4474

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Sep 27, 2022 - The tax rate will range from $400 to $800 per metric ton of lithium carbonate equivalent that a producer extracts, adjusted annually for inflation. A total of 80  percent of the revenue from this tax will go to the counties where lithium extraction occurs, while the other 20  percent will go to the Salton Sea Restoration Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4626

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - The Governor proposes $800  million from the General Fund over two years —$400  million in 2022 ‑23 and 2023 ‑ 24 —to implement various efforts to improve forest health and make communities more resilient to future wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - Over $800  million in one-time funding (all funds) was provided to the newly established Homekey Program in 2020 ‑21. The program allows for the acquisition and rehabilitation of hotels, motels, vacant apartments, and other properties that could be used to provide permanent housing for persons experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, and who are impacted by COVID-19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309