The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Security Proposals

Mar 23, 2023 - School Cybersecurity (AB 2355) Proposal Exceeds Requirements of AB  2355. Cal-CSIC ’s preliminary estimate of the resources needed to help LEAs goes beyond the specific requirements of AB  2355 in three key ways.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4748

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Chapter 5 of 2025 (AB 102, Gabriel) amended the budget to include Control Section 3.90, which established an expectation that the administration would meet and confer in good faith with all 21 of the state’s bargaining units before July 1, 2025 to achieve budgetary savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - In particular, we offer background information; comments on revenue trends, CDTFA ’s enforcement activities, and the AB  3218 budget change proposal (BCP); and questions that budget subcommittees may wish to ask about these issues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

Apr 3, 2025 - Under AB  1864, the department has broad authority to oversee those same entities as well as any firm or person providing consumer financial products or services. New industries now under department oversight include those providing private postsecondary education financing and debt relief.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

Nonreporting Entities' Information Security Compliance

Mar 30, 2023 - This report satisfies supplemental report language adopted by the Legislature in 2022 on nonreporting entities’ information security (IS) compliance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4756

The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization

Feb 25, 2025 - Specifically, Chapter  138 of 2012 (AB  1458, Buchanan) and Chapter  137 of 2012 (AB  1019, Buchanan) included provisions to reject changes made by the reorganization plan to certain independent entities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - Most relevant to AB  531, the proposals include $25  billion for home ownership and construction (SB  834 [Portantino]), $10  billion for affordable rental housing and home ownership programs (AB  1657 [Wicks]), and $5.2  billion for substance use treatment and other behavioral health programs (AB  1510 [Jones-Sawyer]).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement

Mar 11, 2025 - Both U.S. citizens and California Dream Act students (sometimes referred to as AB  540 students) are able to participate in the program. (This latter group consists primarily of undocumented students.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of Information Technology Project Proposals

Mar 17, 2023 - Figure 2 Governor ’s 2023 ‑24 Budget IT Project Proposals a (In Millions) Enterprise Data to Revenue Project 2 135.0 Statewide Correctional Video Surveillance Continuation 87.7 Electronic Adjudication Management System Modernization 21.1 Heavy ‑Duty Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Program Per SB 210 14.1 Uniform Fiscal System Modernization and the Consumer Electronic Records Management System
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4746

The 2022-23 Budget: Vote by Mail Ballots: Prepaid Postage

May 13, 2022 - Chapter 120 of 2018 (AB 216, Gonzalez Fletcher) requires elections officials to include on the return envelope prepaid postage so that the voter does not pay for USPS to deliver the ballot to the elections official.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4596