2025-26 California State Budget Information

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2025 Budget (updated 07/16/2025)

UPDATED 6/30/2025 - TFC Budget Tracking document

• Department of Finance Summary of the 2025 Enacted Budget Package
• Health and Human Services Summary
• BUDGET BILLS
• SB 119 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) Public social services trailer bill
• 2nd human services bill. It passed the Assembly on July 7. Concurrence in amendments to SB 119 is pending in the Senate this week.
• AB 104/SB 104 "Budget Bill Jr."
  
• Amendments published on 07/14. This is a “Budget Bill Jr.” (amendment to the 2025-26 budget act) that consists primarily of technical changes to the 2025-26 budget as enacted in SB 101 and AB 102.
• SIGNED:  SB 101 Budget Act of 2025
• Purpose: The core state budget bill—an appropriation measure that allocates funding ($321.1 billion) to the government for the 2025–26 fiscal year, spanning major programs and services.
• SIGNED:  SB 120 Early childhood education and childcare trailer bill
• SIGNED:  AB 102 "Budget Bill Jr" 
• SIGNED:  AB 118 Human services trailer bill
• 6/27/2025 - Governor Newsom signed budget bills - Included in the Governor's press release on the signage of the budget package was noted,"The Governor’s signature on the state budget is contingent on the enactment of either AB 131 or SB 131 on Monday, June 30th." SB 131 was signed into law on June 30, 2025.

For child care, here are key parts of the current budget agreement to highlight:

Rate Reform & System Expansion

• Continuation of Cost of Care Plus: Extends the "Cost of Care Plus" rate structure into the 2025‐26 year, ending on June 30, 2026. Addresses administration costs pursuant to collective bargaining, including cost of care plus payments and union dues collection.
• Increase to Cost of Care Plus: Increases monthly cost of care payments by a percentage that will be calculated by the Department of Finance.
• Single Rate Structure: Directs the Department of Social Services to adopt a Single Rate Structure for reimbursements based on cost-of-care, moving away from the Regional Market Rate survey —a system change beyond SB 101’s scope.

Payment Upfront Based on Enrollment

• Move to Payment Upfront: Provides funding to begin paying child care and preschool providers prospectively based on enrollment beginning July 1, 2026. Requires the Department of Social Services to provide the Legislature with a quarterly report until July 1, 2027 on the progress of implementing prospective payment based on enrollment.
• Continues Payment Based on Enrollment: Maintains funding for existing enrollment-based payment policies.

• Assembly Floor Report on the 2025 Budget 
• Senate Summary of 2025 Budget Highlights
• Assembly Budget Committee Report of the 2025-26 Budget
• Subcommittee No. 2 (Human Services) - Actions Taken 2025-26
• 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