The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - For each workstream, the contract outlines a series of deliverables or milestones that the contractor would be required to meet over the course of a 28-week period as well as the amount of payment it would receive in exchange for doing so.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - For example, when CDTFA seizes a retailer ’s noncompliant products, this counts as one seizure, regardless of the total amount of product seized. Can the administration provide workload measures that account for some of these limitations?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

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

Feb 27, 2026 - As originally envisioned, California ’s approach for a Next Generation 911 system involved breaking the state up into four regions with a single statewide vendor serving as a back ‑up. These four regions are each served by a regional network service provider (or regional vendor) that is responsible for providing services to connect every dispatch center within the region of the Next Generation 911 network they are responsible for.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5145

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - The law requires state entities to set a goal of awarding at least 3 percent of their annual contract value to service‑disabled veteran‑owned businesses. This is commonly known as the “3 percent participation goal.”
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - Integrated Contact Center This project seeks to modernize the department ’s contact center through (among other improvements) additional self ‑service options, enhanced voice recognition, and multi ‑language functionality.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

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

Aug 17, 2023 - Remainder Would Be Used for Beds in Community-Based Treatment Settings and Residential Care Settings. Bond proceeds remaining after distribution to HCD — at least $3.8  billion —would be used for DHCS to award grants to construct and rehabilitate beds in unlocked, voluntary, community-based treatment and residential care settings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

The 2025-26 Budget: State Departments’ Operational Efficiencies (Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12)

Feb 19, 2025 - The hearings also can be used to set expectations of DOF so that the Legislature can hold DOF accountable whenever it identifies the specific savings by funding source and program. Ask Each Department Questions to Better Understand Identified Savings and Their Effects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - Many of the proposals also would seek to increase diversity within existing  occupations. LAO Comment: Can So Many New Efforts Be Effectively Launched at Once? The sheer number of new proposals to plan, implement, and administer may make it difficult for the agencies to carry out the programs effectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - (For our previous analysis of California Competes see: Review of the California Competes Tax Credit. For our previous analysis of the CAEATFA exclusion see: Evaluation of a Sales Tax Exemption for Certain Manufacturers.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

The 2025-26 Budget: Office of Emergency Services—Request for Reappropriation of Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Fund Resources

Feb 24, 2025 - The information should include actual expenditures, take-up rates, information about requesting and responding local agencies (such as the size of each department served and urbanization level of its jurisdiction), and ou tcome measures tied to the Legislature ’s specific program goals, with any future budget request seeking funding for the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4982