2025-26 California State Budget Information

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Upcoming Budget Hearings (Updated 06/11/2025)

• Assembly Budget Committee on call 
• Wednesday, June 11 - Senate Full Budget Committee @ 9:00 am; 1021 O Street, room 1200; Agenda
• Thursday, June 12 - Senate Full Budget Committee @ 10:00 am; 1021 O Street, room 1200
• Sunday, June 15 @ 10:00 am - ASM Budget Subcommittee 2 on Human Services

2025-26 May Revision Updates (updated 06/11/2025)

• NEW: TFC 2025-26 Budget Tracking Document
• NEW: Assembly Budget Committee Report of the 2025-26 Budget
• Subcommittee No. 2 (Human Services) - Actions Taken 2025-26
• NEW: Budget Bill (SB 101) Text
  
• AB 101 Text (Check back for updates after June 15, 2025)
• Budget Bill (SB 101) - Senate Summary
  
• Provides $200 million ($150 million General Fund) for 12,070 new child care slots:
• 2,500 new general child care slots
• 6,770 new voucher slots
• 2,800 new California State Preschool Program (CSPP) slots
• Requires the Department of Social Services to adopt a single rate structure for setting child care reimbursement rates based on the cost of care, and to pay child care providers based on enrollment, with reporting on the use of funds for implementation and automation. 
• Rejects Governor’s proposal to fund transitional kindergarten outside of the TK12/California Community Colleges split within Proposition 98 in 2023-24 and 2024-25, but commences in 2025-26, which gives $260 million back to the California Community Colleges. 
• Approves Governor’s proposal to suspend the child care cost-of-living adjustment for one year to achieve $60.7 million in savings, but requires all child care programs to receive a new cost-of-living adjustment based on the new single rate structure beginning in 2026.  
• Modifies Governor’s proposal to reduce Family Urgent Response System (FURS) and Emergency Child Care Bridge by decreasing reductions to $9 million and $30 million, respectively. 
• May Revision Proposed Trailer Bill Language
• Trailer Bill Tracking (updated 05/29/2025)
• Cost of Care Plus Payments (updated: 05/28/2025)
• Pre-Populated Semiannual Report 7 Eligibility Status Report (updated: 05/14/2025)
• Streamlining CalWORKs (updated: 05/14/2025)
• Child Care Cost of Living Adjustment (updated: 05/28/2025)
• California Food Assistance Program Expansion Trigger (updated: 05/28/2025)
• YouTube of Governor Newsom releasing the revised budget plan
• May 2025-26 Revision Summary
• TFC May Revision tracking grid
• DOF Trailer Bill Language (TBL) Tracking
• DOF Budget Change Proposals (BCPs)
• Assembly Budget Highlights of the 2025-26 May Revision Proposal
• Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Overview of the May Revise
• CDSS May Revise Detail Tables
• CDSS Caseload Projections
• CalWORKs
• 2025 Child Care Summary

Other Updates (6/3/2025)

• May 23, 2025 - Legislative Women's Caucus - California State Budget - Support for Child Care Rate Reform & Slots
• May 2025 - CalBudget Center Impact of Federal Cuts on California's Social Services Programs
• May 17 - CWDA Response to May Revise Medi-Cal Proposals
• Assembly Budget Subcommittee 2 on Human Services Child Care Agenda April 23rd
• Watch the recording here
• Budget Change Proposal: Child Care Development Fund Facility Savings to Authorized Positions
• Budget Change Proposal: Child Care Policy, Program, Administrative, and Support Staffing Needs
• Senate Budget Subcommittee 3 on Human Services Child Care Agenda April 3rd
• LAO State Budget 2025-26 Child Care Report
• 2/2/2025 Trailer Bills Introduced
• TBL - Clean-up language removing programs from CDE to CDSS
• TBL - Reducing daily rate from 6 hours or more to 5 hours or more
• TBL - Ensuring 12-months when a child is added
• January 31, 2025 - TFC Response to the 2025-26 Proposed Budget
• 13 January - LAO Overview of the Governor's Budget
• January 10 - WATCH LIVE the release of the 2025-26 Budget
• January 10 budget release information
• Assembly Highlights of Governor's Proposed 2025-26 Budget
• Senate Summary of the Governor's Proposed 2025-26 Budget
• Senate B&FR 2025-26 Budget: Implementation Updates
• January 10 - Recording of the release of the 2025-26 Budget
• January 2025-26 Budget
• Governor's Budget Summary ("A Pages)
• Admistrations's multiyear budget projection summary
• Links to budget change proposals
• Links to departmental "budget galley" (budget details by department
• Governor’s proposed budget bill, introduced in each house by its budget committee chair, as required by the State Constitution: AB 227 and SB 65
• References to other budget documents
• LAO Report: 2025-26 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook
• CalBudget: Guide to the California State Budget Process
• For an overview on the budget process and its timeline, click here

Archived Budget Information:

2024-25 Budget Archive
2023-24 Budget Archive
2022-23 Budget Archive
2021-22 Budget Archive
2020-21 Budget Archive
2019-20 Budget Archive
2018-19 Budget Archive
2017-18 Budget Archive
2016-17 Budget Archive