The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - The completed planning documents, including the cost estimate and projected time line to finish the project, will provide the Legislature with the information necessary to evaluate the merits of the proposed project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

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

Jan 13, 2025 - On a net basis, these items slightly improve the budget’s bottom line. Neither our November estimates nor the administration ’s estimates included any costs associated with the devastating wildfires in Southern California, as both were developed before those wildfires began.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

Mental Health Services Act: Impact of Governor's Proposal on Funding for Children and Youth

Aug 10, 2023 - Over two-thirds of the funding —$2.9   billion —is for limited-term programs, such as school-linked behavioral health partnerships and capacity grants that provide schools and institutions of higher education resources as they begin implementing a school-linked Medi-Cal fee schedule.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4786

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

Feb 10, 2022 - Provide funding to various older adult programs, including food assistance, legal services, employment services, and behavioral health line. 106 Contingency Management. Implement treatment pilot for stimulant use disorder. 59 Coordinated Family Support Services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4524

The 2025-26 Budget: Medi-Cal Pharmacy Spending

Apr 3, 2025 - This is because each quarter of data contains around 40,000 line items, and some drugs are spread across multiple lines. To better simplify these data, we used each drug ’s classification as identified under the Food and Drug Administration ’s National Drug Code Directory .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5026

Considering Medi-Cal in the Midst of a Changing Fiscal and Policy Landscape

Oct 24, 2025 - As such, the Legislature likely will want to better understand the needed changes, the time line for DHCS to adopt these changes, and the potential to offset some of these costs using enhanced federal funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5083

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Health

Oct 16, 2025 - Aside from the ongoing reductions to the IST waitlist solutions funding, the spending plan also reduces funding for other IST-related programs by $119  million in 2025-26, $118  million in 2026-27, and $51  million in 2027-28 and ongoing due to updated time lines, primarily for new community-based treatment infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5075

The 2025-26 Budget: Health Care Access and Information

Feb 20, 2025 - As of our analysis, however, HCAI indicated that it could not provide an estimated time line to receive federal approval to sell  the product. Naloxone Initiative Appears to Be Moving at Faster Pace.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4979

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

Jan 10, 2021 - It also is unclear whether state and local public health agencies have the capacity to support schools on such a short time line. The Legislature will want t o consider whether the proposal provides sufficient time for planning and whether the schools and public health agencies have the capacity to effectively implement the requirements under the time lines specified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

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

Mar 10, 2022 - In addition, the 2021 ‑22 budget provided HCAI  with $60  million General Fund to support the Song ‑Brown Program, intended to increase the number of primary care providers statewide by funding primary care residency training slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572