The 2025-26 Budget: Understanding Recent Increases in the Medi-Cal Senior Caseload

Mar 6, 2025 - This translates to about 23,000 seniors, or less than 15 percent, of the at least 165,000 additional seniors due to eligibility expansions. At Least 112,000 of Senior Increase Appears to Be Due to Asset Test Elimination.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010

Building California’s Behavioral Health Infrastructure: Progress Update and Opportunities for the Proposition 1 Bond

Feb 5, 2025 - From 2008 ‑10 to 2018 ‑20, rates of suicide in California among youth aged 15 through 24 increased by more than 20  percent. These troubling trends have accelerated since the COVID ‑19 pandemic and have made improving California ’s behavioral health system a priority for the state ’s policymakers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Fiscal Outlook

Nov 20, 2024 - Specifically, as of the end of the first full year of redeterminations, total Medi-Cal caseload stood at nearly 15  million —more than two million enrollees greater than was projected by the administration in May 2023 and our office in November 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4941

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Health

Sep 17, 2024 - The 2019-20 Budget Act provided a $15  million one-time General Fund to support the Networking California Sickle Cell Care Initiative which established a number of sickle cell disease centers across the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4930

Mental Health Services Act: LAO Update: The Governor's Revised Behavioral Health Modernization Proposal

Aug 21, 2023 - How August 15 th Amendments to SB  326 Respond to Issue Increased Role for MHSOAC, but Still Overall Reduction in Current Authority Without Justification. The Governor ’s revised proposal would provide for MHSOAC ’s participation, in a consultation role with DHCS, in a number of components of the MHSA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4792

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 23, 2023 - The budget package includes provisional language that authorizes the Department of Finance to augment the funding by up to $15  million if sufficient resources are available in the Opioid Settlement Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4810

Mental Health Services Act: Impact of Governor's Proposal on Funding for Children and Youth

Aug 10, 2023 - The Governor ’s proposal requires half of the BHSS category to be used for early interventions, about 15  percent of total county MHSA funding. Based on our estimate, counties spent only 5  percent of total county MHSA funding on early intervention services in 2021-22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4786

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - The majority of these one-time proposals ($15  billion) meet the definition of capital outlay for the purposes of the SAL and are excludable. Governor Proposes $15  Billion in Spending on Capital Outlay.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 24, 2022 - The spending plan includes $30  million one-time General Fund for tribal investments, including $15  million to support the construction of a regional wellness center for the Yurok Tribe and another $15  million for the construction of The Village San Francisco.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4642

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision $1,137 $465 Note: This reflects our best understanding as of May 15, 2021; however, we are still receiving information from the administration about these proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432/2