The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - Significant Changes to Solutions From June 2024 Budget Package Managed Care Organization (MCO) Tax Package. Some of the largest budget solutions in the June budget package involved the MCO tax, a tax on health plans that supports the Medi ‑Cal program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Nov 14, 2025 - For 2024-25, the budget package provides an additional $78  million from the previously enacted level that year —bringing MCS spending up to $1  billion General Fund ($636  million ongoing and $368  million one time).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5089

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

Mar 10, 2022 - The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package The 2022‑23 Budget Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package Summary. This budget post provides (1)  an overview of the Governor ’s budget proposal to provide $1.7  billion (mostly General Fund) across three years for several workforce development augmentations
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - As a result, students often did not know their full financial aid package prior to the start of the academic year. To help mitigate this issue, in 2025 ‑26, rather than setting the appropriation for MCS and adjusting award coverage accordingly, the state locked in the percentage of award coverage that year at 35  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - The Governor’s budget package has no proposals that reduce higher education spending in 2026‑27. Key Considerations In this part of the brief, we raise some concerns with the Governor ’s proposed 2026 ‑27 budget for higher education and offer some recommendations for building a more sustainable budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

The 2024-25 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Jan 30, 2024 - Assessment Governor’s Higher Education Spending Reduction Package Is a Start. The Governor’s package of proposed higher education spending reductions achieves a total of $2.4 billion in non‑Proposition 98 General Fund savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4829?utm_source=Legislative+Analyst%27s+Office&utm_campaign=415eaeb623-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_01_30_4829&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-415eaeb623-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

The 2024-25 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Jan 30, 2024 - Assessment Governor’s Higher Education Spending Reduction Package Is a Start. The Governor’s package of proposed higher education spending reductions achieves a total of $2.4 billion in non‑Proposition 98 General Fund savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4829

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Higher Education [Publication Details]

Nov 14, 2025 - This post summarizes the state’s 2025-26 spending package for higher education. It is part of our Spending Plan series. In this post, we provide an overview of the state’s higher education spending package, then cover spending for the California Community Colleges (CCC), California State University (CSU), University of California (UC), student financial aid, and California State Library.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5089

The 2021-22 Budget: UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Feb 26, 2021 - (In addition to this base support, the Governor ’s January budget provides ANR $ 2  m illion one ‑time General Fund as part of a package of proposals aimed at addressing wildfire issues. We describe this proposal in our handout, The 2021‑22 Budget: Wildfire Resilience Package .)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4391

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Sep 11, 2024 - Under the 2022-23 budget package, Cal Grant reform would have been triggered in 2024-25 if the state determined in spring 2024 that sufficient General Fund was available to support the action. The trigger condition was not met.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4926