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

Mar 7, 2025 - Based on experience with other IT projects with statewide impacts, it is likely these costs will total tens of millions of dollars. Funding for these costs would be individually requested by departments alongside the annual development and implementation funding request from SCO and CalHR for the project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

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

Feb 27, 2026 - The  Legislature then enacted Chapter  926  of  2014 (S B  1211 ,  Padilla), which directed OES to develop a plan and time line for testing, implementing, and operating a Next Generation 911 system, including text ‑to ‑911.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Low ‑income residents also are more likely to live in older housing that requires modifications —such as air conditioning or more fire ‑resistant exteriors —to adapt to increased risks. Notably, low ‑income residents also are more likely to live in rental housing, and thus more likely to be reliant on landlords to conduct modifications to their homes to mitigate the effects of climate change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

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

Mar 18, 2025 - As CA RISE is open to a broader but overlapping target population as LA:RISE and works with many of the same ESEs, CA RISE participants likely had similar characteristics prior to CA RISE participation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate

Mar 19, 2025 - DRE reports that it experienced a significant decrease in the number of people applying for real estate examinations and licenses in the first six months of 2024-25. As shown in Figure  1, DRE expects the annual number of applications received across most major real estate sales and broker licensing categories to decline in 2024-25, with the largest reductions occurring in the categories of first-time or new applications.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5019

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - Accordingly, to fully assess the value of the contract, the Legislature will need a clear and comprehensive understanding of its likely outcomes. Are the Activities in Line With Legislative Priorities for the Programs?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2022-23 Budget: California Department of Food and Agriculture

Feb 1, 2022 - Delaying the funding decision for a year will allow the Legislature to track the development of the registry and better understand the potential workload it will create for CDFA, while not delaying the administration ’s current time line for implementing the project registry.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4510

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - SCP This approved IT project seeks to develop and implement an improved online portal for customers to log in and access their program benefits. d EDD implemented the first phase of this project in June 2023, and later provided six additional language options on the portal in 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - These projected out-year shortfalls likely will make it challenging for the account to fund core expenses such as CHP salaries and could increase pressure to raise fees on drivers. For this reason, every new expenditure from the account —especially those that are comparatively large —should be well justified and clear a high bar for approval.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - Over this period of time, response and recovery efforts would likely be more well defined, and this process would ensure that ongoing actions are subject to legislative review and approval. The Legislature could consult with the Governor’s office
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029