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• Issue 1, under the state's budget plan, UC will not be provided with a base augmentation in the budget
• So the governor's budget includes an unrestricted $2.4 million ongoing General Fund base augmentation
• We recommend the Legislature reject the base augmentation proposal given the fiscal condition of the
• Now, unlike UC or CSU, which had its 2025-26 base augmentations deferred under the state budget plan,
• So given these factors, we recommend rejecting the proposed base augmentation.

Summary: The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance held an extended hearing focused primarily on University of California budget issues, enrollment, housing, and Title IX. Chair David Alvarez opened by noting the governor’s proposed 8% ongoing General Fund reduction to UC, the deferral of compact funding, and the College of the Law budget item, while emphasizing that no votes would be taken that day. Public commenters, including UC Davis employees and lecturers, urged restoration of UC funding and opposed the hiring freeze, saying cuts would worsen staffing shortages, reduce research capacity, and harm students and patients. On UC core operations, the Department of Finance said the governor’s budget maintains the compact but defers $240.8 million in ongoing support and continues a planned 7.95% reduction, while the LAO recommended rejecting the deferrals and instead making any changes in the budget year. UC San Diego’s chancellor and UC Office of the President argued the cuts and deferrals would create major campus shortfalls, force hiring freezes, larger class sizes, fewer course offerings, delayed projects, and possible layoffs. Committee members questioned whether cuts could be shifted away from students and toward administration, discussed UCOP reserves and bond debt, and noted that UC’s budget structure makes the campus-level impact larger than the headline reduction. The committee also reviewed enrollment trends and nonresident replacement. The LAO said UC resident enrollment has grown and recommended revisiting 2026-27 targets and pausing the nonresident replacement plan if state funding does not improve. UC said it has exceeded California undergraduate enrollment and nonresident replacement goals, but warned that continued growth without funding would force enrollment reductions and harm quality. Members discussed the role of nonresident and international students, tuition rates, and the value of UC as a pathway for California students and a source of talent for the state. A separate housing item covered the state’s Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program. UC reported that recent bond savings could support additional affordable beds at UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara, but the LAO and Finance noted the Legislature would need to decide how to use the $6.2 million in savings from the original projects. The committee also heard a Title IX update from UC’s systemwide civil rights office, which described campus Title IX structures, training, and policy enforcement, and said the system has been working to improve confidentiality guidance and streamline complaint processes after survey feedback showed confusion and lengthy procedures.

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• And I'll plan to discuss the augmentation for the CSU Center for California Studies and the subsequent
• Some of that planned reduction is offset by certain General Fund augmentations for CSU.
• Under the Governor's budget, CSU receives $178 million in augmentations in 2025-26, which are mostly
• So I think going forward, whether we augment or we make cuts, we need to, if we are going to provide
• I will share that this work continues to evolve and has been augmented since those initial proposals.

Summary: The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance met to review CSU and State Library budget issues, enrollment trends, the Capital Fellows program, and a Title IX update. Chair David Alvarez opened by stressing that CSU faces serious financial pressure, including a systemwide deficit and proposed cuts that he and several members said were too large and likely to harm access, course offerings, and student services. Public comment focused heavily on the Braille Institute Library, with patrons, staff, veterans, and advocates urging restoration of funding and warning that the proposed cut would severely affect blind and visually impaired Californians across Southern California. Several CSU faculty, staff, and union representatives also opposed the proposed reductions and warned of larger class sizes, fewer sections, and layoffs. On the CSU core operations item, the Department of Finance explained the Governor’s proposal to reduce ongoing General Fund support by about $375 million and defer a 5% base increase, while the LAO said CSU core funding would be roughly flat once tuition and targeted augmentations were considered, but warned that rising costs and prior shortfalls would still force campuses to cut spending. CSU’s Chancellor’s Office said the proposed cut would deepen existing problems, citing prior-year budget gaps, job losses, reduced course sections, and student-service reductions. Members pressed Finance and the LAO on whether cuts could be made more surgically, especially at the Chancellor’s Office or in institutional support rather than in instruction, and the LAO said the Legislature has flexibility to target cuts more specifically. CSU also described ongoing consolidation efforts, including shared services among campuses and the planned Cal Maritime/Cal Poly San Luis Obispo integration, while cautioning that savings are not yet fully known. The committee then discussed CSU enrollment. The LAO recommended holding enrollment targets flat because the budget does not add new funding, while CSU reported strong recent growth, including more California residents, record first-year enrollment, and expanded direct admissions and transfer pathways. Members questioned why some campuses with high demand turn away many applicants while others continue to lose enrollment, and CSU said it is shifting resources from campuses with sustained declines to those with demand, using a 10% below-target threshold. The committee also discussed whether enrollment declines mirror local population trends, how to improve marketing and program alignment, and whether lessons from Cal Poly Humboldt’s conversion could inform other campuses such as Sonoma State. The Capital Fellows item drew a Finance proposal for a salary increase and an LAO counterproposal for a smaller raise plus future COLA language; the committee kept the item open. Finally, CSU reported progress on Title IX compliance, saying it has completed most State Auditor recommendations, expanded civil rights staffing, and increased training, prevention, and case-management efforts, though members asked how proposed budget cuts might affect those services.

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• <04:35:52.719> enhancement<04:35:53.520> and enhancement, snowpack enhancement and
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• And for the second year in a row, we're seeing record low snowpack.

Bills: SB12, SB36, SB92, SB120, SB133, SB151, SB18, SB96

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• This will have profound impacts on our natural systems, such as snowpack and rivers, and our human systems

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• As far as this year's budget request, $2.1 million is for staff augmentation, and it's to have the right
• As far as this year's budget request, $2.1 million is for staff augmentation, and it's to have the right
• It also includes staff augmentation resources to continually maintain the system.
• The onboarding of additional staff augmentation research that several weeks alone.
• And what does 475,000 do to augment that staff? How many FTEs?

Summary: The subcommittee heard updates on several state technology modernization efforts, beginning with the Florida Division of Emergency Management’s Enterprise Business Solution (DEMS). FDEM said DEMS is about 50% complete, with some grants and finance functions already live, and is intended to replace manual disaster and grants processing with a cloud-based system. Officials described faster reimbursement timelines after recent storms, major return-on-investment claims, and a planned final phase focused on design, testing, communications, data governance, and additional functionality. Members asked about the total cost, the role of Florida Digital Service, deliverables-based contracting, and how much of the system is live; FDEM said the project is expected to cost about $16 million to $16.8 million and finish by June 2027, with some follow-up information to be provided. The Department of Legal Affairs presented its Office of Attorney General Modernization Program, a follow-up to an earlier effort that failed after spending about $26 million. Acting Attorney General John Gard said the department has now moved to an off-the-shelf case management product, LawBase, and is in development and testing, with the Office of Statewide Prosecution already live and full implementation expected by the end of the fiscal year. The request includes funding for staff augmentation, cloud storage, the LawBase license, redundancy through a backup site in Orlando, and OnBase support. Members questioned the prior failure, the use of Florida Digital Service standards, data location and cloud migration, and the redundancy plan; Gard said lessons learned included better scoping and that the current effort is on track. The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles then updated the committee on Motorist Modernization, including the Orion system and the MyDMV portal. Officials said Phase 1 and Phase 2 have modernized driver license and motor vehicle services, with Phase 2 statewide rollout scheduled to begin in April 2025 and Phase 3 proposed at $16.5 million for dealer services, data warehouse improvements, and call center modernization. Members asked about payment options, organ donor questions, staffing, cybersecurity, cloud strategy, and the digital driver license program. The agency said the portal already allows some sanctions to be cleared online, an ACH option is being developed, the digital driver license vendor has changed with a fall go-live anticipated, and the department is using security testing and a managed security service provider. Officials also said the system is currently on an on-prem private cloud, with future workloads expected to move to public cloud where appropriate. Finally, Florida Commerce presented on the Reemployment Assistance modernization system, Reconnect, and the FLWINS workforce system. Commerce said Reconnect is hosted in the Azure Government Cloud, has reduced claim filing time, improved fraud detection, and increased appeals capacity, and now needs $4.9 million in recurring funding to cover ongoing operations, cloud hosting, licenses, and staff augmentation. Members asked about adjudication issues, wait times, fraud prevention, and whether the system stores caller identifiers; Commerce said the average wait to speak to a representative is about 18 minutes and claims are generally processed in four to six weeks. The committee then began hearing about FLWINS, which is intended to create a “no wrong door” workforce portal under the REACH Act, but the transcript cuts off before that presentation concluded.

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• inability to hire appropriate FTE staffing for these positions, they have had to contract with staff augmentation
• essentially funding not only the vacant positions in the budget, but we're also funding the staff augmentation
• essentially funding not only the vacant positions in the budget, but we're also funding the staff augmentation
• One option, to be determined by this committee, is to stop contracting with state augmentation companies
• accept the LBR request to eliminate the FTE positions funded and simply pay the contracted staff augmentation

Summary: The Health Care Budget Subcommittee met to review agency budgets, vacant positions, and possible efficiencies across several health and human services agencies. Members were asked to identify savings and potential areas for increased funding, and the discussion repeatedly focused on whether long-vacant FTEs, reversion of funds, and staffing shortages reflect true operational needs or broader budgeting and recruitment problems. The chair and members emphasized that the exercise was intended to help the committee make more informed budget decisions and to identify structural issues that may require legislative action. For the Agency for Persons with Disabilities, members highlighted a large waiting list, including individuals in crisis and children, and discussed whether vacant positions and unspent funds could be redirected to services. Several members raised concerns about delays in crisis applications, the use of paper applications, and whether the issue is staffing, process, or both. For the Department of Children and Families, the presenters discussed vacant positions, the use of staff augmentation in state hospitals, support for expanding behavioral qualified residential treatment program beds, and concerns raised by audits of the managing entities, which showed procurement and financial management problems. They recommended continued oversight, reporting requirements on Medicaid enrollees receiving mental health services through managing entities, and support for the governor’s proposed funding items. Other agencies reviewed included Elder Affairs, where members questioned the need for multiple divisions, CARES assessments, and supervisory overhead; the Department of Health, where vacancies, turnover, pay gaps, and units of rate were discussed as barriers to recruitment and retention; and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, where the presenters said vacancies were tied to new nursing homes and recommended shifting a major priority into general revenue rather than trust funds. Throughout the meeting, members generally agreed that the vacancy review was eye-opening and suggested deeper, possibly separate, reviews of agency staffing, pay parity, and fund reversion practices. No formal votes were taken during the transcript.

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• maintains that augmentation.
• So the augmentation, if you will, for rate one does not create a reduction in rate two.
• at a level Providing now for those specific programs: Rising Scholars Network is being augmented at
• The May Revision proposes an augmentation of $1.5 million Teacher Credentials Fund and seven positions
• We’re looking at a 2026–27 half a billion dollar augmentation to the UC budget alone, another half a

Summary: The committee heard the May Revision presentation for the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance, with public comment focused heavily on K-12 priorities such as universal school meals, kitchen infrastructure, food service and custodial support, youth leadership grants, Special Olympics funding, English learner support, universal pre-K, literacy investments, and concerns about community college funding shifts. Speakers also urged support for expanded learning, teacher recruitment and training, and maintaining or increasing funding for community colleges and student support programs. Finance and the LAO then reviewed the Proposition 98 outlook. Finance said the May Revision lowers the 2025-26 Prop. 98 guarantee to $114.6 billion, about $4.3 billion below January, due mainly to lower revenue estimates, with smaller effects from attendance and property tax changes. The administration also described rebenching for universal transitional kindergarten and a one-time rebench tied to Los Angeles fire-related property tax losses, along with changes to the Public School System Stabilization Account, deferrals, and updated COLA assumptions. The LAO said the budget relies too much on deferrals and one-time funds, creates a structural shortfall, and should instead align ongoing spending with the guarantee and preserve a reserve buffer. Members questioned the TK rebench and the shift of funding from community colleges to K-12, asking why it was being applied retroactively and how colleges would be held harmless. Finance said the changes align funding with where TK costs are being incurred and that reappropriation funding and other adjustments would offset impacts on community colleges. The LAO argued the historical split formula is outdated and should be abandoned in favor of budgeting around current priorities rather than fixed percentages. Members also raised concerns about draining the rainy day reserve and using deferrals, while the LAO said preserving reserves would better protect against future volatility. The committee then moved to specific K-12 and education proposals. Finance outlined May Revision changes including state operations adjustments for the Department of Education, technical trailer bill changes, a $100 million student teacher stipend program administered by Kern County, and updates to the charter school facility grant program. The LAO recommended rejecting the proposed increases for expanded learning, literacy coaches, and the student teacher stipend as currently structured, while supporting the minimum grant increase for expanded learning. Members expressed support for teacher recruitment efforts but questioned whether one-time funding can sustain ongoing programs and whether the student teacher stipend should be targeted to shortage areas or low-income communities.

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Bills: HB292, HB307, SB33, HB292, HB307, SB33

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• In proposing augmentations for 2025 and 2026, including the structure and the duration of set. augmentations
• These are things like provider rate increases and other augmentations to health programs.
• The first three questions really are around the implementation of the augmentations in Proposition 35
• There would also be less funding for augmentations.
• The other portion is used for augmentations like rate increases or other health program increases.

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• Also grateful for the augmentation of immigrant legal services and the rejection of IHSS cuts and proposed
• Thank you for augmenting the resources to legal defense.
• We're really thankful for the $20 million augmentation in the May Revision and hope that you will pass
• I'm thankful for the $20 million augmentation in the May Revision and hope that you will pass this as
• allow us to keep as many people as possible on those federal funds and not affect the Cal Food augmentation

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• this proposal and certainly agree with some of the comments already made and by you. of maybe even augmenting
• This year's proposal requests an augmentation of $107,075,000 and includes funding for the equivalent
• So the state treasurer's office is requesting one-time general fund augmentation of seven hundred and
• Therefore, ITD division is requesting for a funding augmentation of $536,000 towards the personal cost
• We are no now going to issue number 12 position authority augmentation Thank you for the Welcome.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• OUR MEMBERS STRONGLY BELIEVE AI SHOULD AUGMENT THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE. IT IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE.
• WE ARE HELPING AUGMENT WHAT THE CLINICIANS ARE SEEING.
• THE OTHER WAYS TO AUGMENTING TO PUT OUT ITEMS PROACTIVELY WHERE THE CLINICIAN READS THE STUDY BUT THEY
• SO I THINK IT DOES AUGMENT THE CLINICIAN.
• WHETHER THEY ARE NEW CLINICIANS WERE TINTERN CLINICIANS, IT AUGMENTS THEIR SKILLS BY THAT ADDITIONAL.

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• But we need to find augmentation wherever it's available, and allowing transport of this water when and
• We've got to be able to augment.
• would allow me, having somebody with the finances to be willing to spend that money for water augmentation
• Dunn, the fact of the matter is that the more opportunities for augmentation, for transportation, for
• These types of augmentation and transportation programs will enable us to better manage the totality

Bills: HB2014, HB2031, HB2078, HB2102, HB2103, HB2117, HB2261, HB2262, HB2264, HB2278, HB2428, HB2494, HB2756, HB2758, HB2762, HB2782, HB2932, HB2933, HB2986

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• In proposing augmentations for 2025 and 2026, including the structure and the duration of such augmentations
• But in addition, there would also be less funding for augmentations.
• But in addition, there would also be less funding for augmentations.
• And then the other portion is used for augmentations like rate increases.
• That more public funding has to go for augmentations, less for General Fund offset.

Summary: The committee heard a budget oversight hearing on the Department of Health Care Services, focusing first on the overall Medi-Cal budget and a March General Fund loan to cover a current-year shortfall. DHCS said the 2025-26 budget proposal totals $193.4 billion, with Medi-Cal projected at $188.1 billion total funds and $42.1 billion General Fund, driven by higher enrollment, pharmacy costs, managed care growth, and costs tied to eligibility expansions and the COVID-era redetermination unwinding. The department said the $3.44 billion loan was needed to manage cash flow and ensure timely payments to providers and plans, while the LAO noted Medi-Cal’s cash-basis budgeting creates volatility and that more detailed estimates would come with the May Revision. Members discussed federal Medicaid threats, the need for transparency on cost drivers, and the impact of pharmacy spending, long-term care, and immigration-related coverage expansions. The second major topic was family health programs, including California Children’s Services, the continuous coverage unwinding, and opioid settlement fund spending. DHCS described CCS funding methodology changes, ongoing county stakeholder work, and a delayed rollout of CCS monitoring and oversight until July 1, 2025, while county representatives and advocates argued the program is underfunded and asked for more technical assistance and a delay in implementation. On the unwinding, the department explained that federal redetermination flexibilities helped maintain coverage after the pandemic, but the Governor’s budget proposes ending them at the end of June 2025; advocates urged making the flexibilities permanent to avoid coverage losses. For opioid settlement funds, DHCS and Finance said the budget increases funding for naloxone distribution while reducing other harm-reduction spending based on updated settlement revenues, prompting criticism from members and public commenters who argued the change would weaken effective harm-reduction programs. The hearing also included an update on Proposition 35 implementation. DHCS said the voter-approved measure continuously appropriates MCO tax revenues beginning in 2025, with up to $4.6 billion annually available for specified Medi-Cal and provider investments in 2025 and 2026, but implementation depends on consultation with the required stakeholder advisory committee. The department and LAO noted uncertainty about future federal rules affecting the MCO tax after 2026. Public testimony largely supported maintaining Medi-Cal expansions, protecting immigrant coverage, preserving harm-reduction funding, and increasing support for community health workers, pediatric dental care, and CCS county administration. No votes were taken during the portion of the hearing provided.

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• that augmentation.
• The augmentation, if you will, for rate 1 does not create a reduction in rate 2, it just stays at the
• The mayor vision proposes an augmentation of 1.5 million teacher credentials fund and seven positions
• Additionally, the mayor vision includes an augmentation of 800,000 teacher credentials fund to support
• The May revision also includes an augmentation of $1.8 million one-time.

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• CDT requests a $1 million budget augmentation in the... Okay, we're now on issue item number 10.
• CDT requests a $1 million budget augmentation in the ...is concerned.
• CDT requests a budget augmentation to consolidate all its staff at its White Rock corporate campus in
• For the augmentation for Item 9800, this proposal...
• For the augmentation for Item 9800, this proposal is increasing by $40.4 million, $15.2 million, which

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• All of our state is experiencing the lowest snowpack this past year that we've ever had anywhere. the

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• And so it's not just replace; it's replace and augment.
• And so it's not just replace; it's replace and augment.
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• > um<00:44:34.800> from fact, slightly augment that um from fact, slightly augment that
• augment um Director Bergie's question. augment um Director Bergie's question.

Bills: HF624

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• And this is just augmenting the existing bill to which this fund, this general fund already provides
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Bills: HB247, HB317, HB318, HB253, HB271, HB135, HB247, HB317, HB318, HB253, HB271, HB135

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