The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - This statutory change aims to ensure children with exceptional needs can safely use outdoor play spaces in licensed child care settings simultaneously with nondisabled children and charges DSS to implement the necessary changes to child care facility licensing regulations by January 1, 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/8

California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities

Apr 24, 2024 - Introduction Child Welfare System ’s Primary Goal Is to Keep Children Safe. The child welfare system serves to protect children from maltreatment —including by removing children from their home and placing them into temporary foster care when deemed necessary —and to strengthen families so that children can remain safely with their families whenever possible.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4897

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Home Safe provides homelessness prevention and housing interventions to support safety and housing stability for individuals served by the local APS agency. 2025-26 DSS Housing and Homelessness Spending Plan Makes One-Time Augmentations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/7

The 2023-24 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals and Implementation Updates

Feb 22, 2023 - Older, relatively more self ‑sufficient youth and NMDs may be placed in supervised independent living placements (SILPs) or transitional housing placements. SILPs are independent settings, such as apartments or shared residences, where NMDs may live independently and continue to receive monthly foster care payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4698

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

Mar 5, 2026 - In carrying out their administrative responsibility, counties are required to follow state policy set by the Legislature and administratively by DHCS and DSS. DHCS and DSS policymaking activities underway now will accordingly shape counties ’ H.R.  1 implementation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - Older, relatively more self ‑sufficient youth and NMDs may be placed in supervised independent living placements (SILPs) or transitional housing placements. SILPs are independent settings, such as apartments or shared residences, where NMDs may live independently and continue to receive monthly foster care payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4364

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Additionally, the spending plan requires that counties replace stolen benefits as soon as administratively feasible, but no more than ten business days after the receipt of the replacement request. Under current law, California will return to reimbursing stolen food benefits using state funds on October 1, 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/3

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - As a result, many projects would receive an HDFC award, and thus there would be an increase in calls on the proposed set ‑aside pool. In years of leaner supplies of state subsidies, however, demand for the set ‑aside pool will be much less and a mandatory 50  percent set ‑aside for HDFC projects could be too high.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - Stops for moving violations made by the state ’s seven largest local law enforcement agencies dropped 32  percent in the second quarter of 2020. Unlike the CHP trend, however, stops by local law enforcement did not rebound after this mid ‑2020 dip, with stops remaining at a depressed level through 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - Expenditure authority for some of the temporary augmentations, such as the Emergency Response increases and components of the complex care needs funding, are set to expire in the current year (June 30, 2026).
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147