The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care

Apr 15, 2024 - Consider Adjusting Cost Estimates of Slot Expansion Plan to Reflect More Recent Cost Per Slot Data. In order to effectively estimate the availability of state resources in future years, the Legislature could direct the administration to update the cost estimates of the slot expansion plan based on more recent cost per slot data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4893

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - Without a methodology that links funding to workload, funding could become insufficient or exceed what is required for efficient operations without a clear way of assessing what adjustments are needed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Create LTSS Data Dashboard linked with statewide nursing home and HCBS utilization, quality, demographics, and cost data. 4.0 Total $4,470.7 a Reflects HCBS Spending Plan activities and funding levels as of April 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/6

The 2022-23 Budget: Update on Home- and Community- Based Services Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2022 - Create LTSS Data Dashboard linked with statewide nursing home and HCBS utilization, quality, demographics, and cost data. 4 Total $4,649 a Reflects total funding levels as proposed under the HCBS spending plan conditionally approved by the federal government on January 4, 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4524

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - We note that these growth components are our best estimates based on the data we have available at this time. Moreover, costs to administer the program also make up a small component of the growth listed above.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - For any determined measures that DSS/counties do not currently report on, the Legislature could direct any necessary additional data collection now to ensure impacts may be measured over time. Regardless of any new data collection the Legislature may wish to add, the state will collect the federally required data elements once the new child welfare data system (CWS ‑CARES) comes online.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

Preliminary Assessment of Significant Changes to State's Technology Project Approval and Oversight Processes

Apr 29, 2025 - Preliminary Assessment of Significant Changes to State's Technology Project Approval and Oversight Processes CalHHS Language Access CalHHS proposes to use GenAI technology to translate their departments ’ content into multiple languages to improve language access for state residents. 1 Caltrans Traffic Mobility Insights Caltrans proposes to use GenAI technology to analyze significant amounts of
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5034

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - We find this projection reasonable but will revisit the administration ’s projections at the May Revision when more data are available. Automatic Grant Increases Realignment Revenues Projected to Be Insufficient for Automatic Grant Increase in 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - The Tiered Rate Structure will rely on data collected via the state ’s functional assessment tool —the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) assessment —to determine a youth ’s needed level of care and corresponding rate, which will not depend on placement types.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The state operations funding is to support staff that will share student eligibility data and provide technical assistance to schools. Other Food Assistance Funding and Programmatic Changes Includes About $2.7  Million for CalFresh and SUN Bucks Workload Changes in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/3