The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library

Mar 7, 2025 - The proposed trailer bill language retroactively reestablishes the special fund as of January 1, 2025, so there would be no lap se in deposits. (The state has continued to collect civil appellate filing fees.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5013

The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - Even the segment-specific work b eing done to improve learning outcomes is likely to have broader and more integrated results than Learning Lab ’s projects. This is because work being done within a segment is more likely to affect an entire department, campus, or even the whole segment (through initiatives like CSU ’s GI 2025).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

UC Merced at 20: Campus Developments and Key State-Level Takeaways

Nov 7, 2024 - Consequently, adding enrollment slots at UC Merced has been costlier than adding slots at the other UC campuses. In 2022 ‑23, UC Merced received $85  million in state per ‑student funding above the level it would have generated under the rebenching formula had it been any other UC general campus with a comparable student body.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Nov 14, 2025 - The 2025 ‑26 Budget Act authorizes a General Fund loan to cover 2025 ‑26 costs as they arise. e Primarily reflects the removal of 2024 ‑25 one ‑time funds. Budget Adjusts Cal Grant Spending Upward in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5089

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - In addition, the 2021 ‑22 budget provided HCAI  with $60  million General Fund to support the Song ‑Brown Program, intended to increase the number of primary care providers statewide by funding primary care residency training slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

The 2024-25 Budget: University of California

Feb 28, 2024 - If UC were to continue implementing this plan in 2024 ‑25, as it now expects to do, more than 1,000 slots for resident undergraduate students would become available at UC ’s highest ‑demand campuses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4862

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - Instead, its budget change request focused on addressing the departme nt ’s shortfall in OE &E funding, which is largely driven by inflationary pressures. Though CSAC provided documentation showing how OE&E costs have been increasing, it did not include detail on how additional funding would be allocated to cover both rising OE&E costs and staffing shortages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

The 2023-24 Budget: University of California

Feb 15, 2023 - If a campus has more transfer applicants than slots, it uses UC ’s comprehensive review policy to select students for admissions. (This process is very similar to the process used when a campus has more freshman applicants than slots.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4684

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Students have access to research databases, e ‑journals, magazine subscriptions, peer ‑reviewed articles, and e ‑books that can be used to complete course  assignments. New Federal Policy Resumes Pell Grants for Eligible Incarcerated Students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2025-26 Budget: University of California

Feb 27, 2025 - Though much smaller in magnitude, UC also can experience cost increases relating to operating expenses and equipment (OE&E). OE&E costs tend to grow with inflation over time, though UC tries to contain these costs through operational efficiencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4998