The 2026-2027 Budget: California Cannabis Control Appeals Panel Permanent Funding Request

Feb 11, 2026 - As mentioned previously, CCAP has argued that the reason the panel has heard so few cases is because so many licensees held provisional licenses. It further asserts that more cases will come now that the transition to annual licenses is largely complete.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5119

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - For each workstream, the contract outlines a series of deliverables or milestones that the contractor would be required to meet over the course of a 28-week period as well as the amount of payment it would receive in exchange for doing so.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

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

Feb 27, 2026 - It does so by providing back ‑ups for network and core services within each region and statewide, and by containing outages within a single area; but requires the regional and statewide networks to work together seamlessly —that is, to interoperate —without sharing each other ’s components or infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - Why has the number of tobacco inspections declined so much? We have seen workload trends presented in terms of total inspections, seizures, citations, and appeals. The administration has noted that these measures can be difficult to interpret.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

The 2025-26 Budget: California Military Department—STARBASE Classroom Building

Feb 20, 2025 - We recommend that the Legislature reject this proposal without prejudice and reconsider constructing a classroom building to expand service at STARBASE Los Alamitos in the future when doing so will not likely come at the cost of existing budget commitments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4976

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

Feb 19, 2025 - If so, under what authority is the administration implementing the reductions in the current year? Does the department anticipate that any changes in statute or regulations will be necessary in order to achieve the identified savings?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - Moreover, the Chair went on to note that it was unprecedented for the state to purchase large natural gas generators to address statewide emergency demands and that doing so was an inefficient use of state funds and should not be repeated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - As a point of comparison, more than 50  percent of tax credits awarded are either never claimed or later recaptured, so we expect a nontrivial fraction of grant awards will not be claimed. Governor ’s Proposal $60  Million for California Competes Grants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

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

Mar 7, 2025 - If so, how will existing and new departmental staff be prepared for these new requirements? Will SCO and CalHR help departments develop and implement interfaces between their existing HR and payroll IT systems and the new payroll system?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - (An incremental and iterative approach is one that delivers system functionalities to a department as they are developed, so a department can use and improve them over time instead of at the end of system development.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985