Note: The budget letters from the Department of Finance and the response letters from the Joint Legislative Budget Committee are available here.
Specific Spending Plans Announced (Dollars in Millions)
$ 3,047.5: Total spending notified through May 21, 2020
$ 804.9: SB 89 Spending (limited to $1 billion)
$ 2,242.6: Spending from transfers to Disaster Response - Emergency Operations Account (DREOA)
| Date | Action | Amount | Description |
| 21-May | Emergency Spending Letter | $ 1,831.1 | Emergency Funds for PPE, Health System Surge, State Operations and Other |
| 1,291.6 | PPE Procurement | ||
| 251.7 | Hospital and medical system surge staffing and facilities | ||
| 159.4 | State response operations | ||
| 98.4 | Testing, contact tracing, and tracking | ||
| 30.0 | Hotels for healthcare workers and support staff | ||
| 8-May | SB 89 Letter #13 | - | Child Care Funding Revision |
| Permits funds previously notified on April 10 (SB 89 Letter #8) to be spent through additional agencies rather than only local Resource & Referral agencies, following an unspecified problem with a particular local agency. No change to overall funding amount. | |||
| 8-May | SB 89 Letter #12 | $ 8.6 | State Prison COVID-19 Prevention Extension |
| Continues for another 30 days the policy announced April 2 (SB 89 Letter #5) to reimburse counties holding inmates in local jails while the state does not accept transfers. | |||
| 8-May | SB 89 Letter #11 | $ 27.4 | Contract Tracing Data, Call Center, and Training |
| 8.7 | Support the development of a virtual training academy with UC San Francisco and UCLA to train up to 20,000 workers for contact tracing efforts. | ||
| 18.7 | Contract with Accenture and Amazon for a data management platform and contact tracing call center to support local public health agencies in contact tracing. | ||
| 27-Apr | Reserve Spending Letter #2 | $ 104.7 | PPE Contract Payment |
| Payment for the first "post-delivery" invoice is expected this week under the PPE contract announced April 7. As of the April 27 letter release, the status and size of the first shipment of masks was unknown. | |||
| 24-Apr | Governor Announcement | Unknown | Emergency Feeding Program |
| Provide meals through local government agencies and restaurants to seniors and to others who are at-risk from COVID-19. Costs will be shared by federal (75%), state (19%), and local (6%) governments. | |||
| 15-Apr | SB 89 Letter#10 | $ 76.3 | Funds for Undocumented Immigrants, Foster Families, and Others |
| 63.3 | Direct cash assistance for undocumented immigrants. Grants of $500 per adult would be distributed by nonprofit organizations to an estimated 150,000 adults. (Note that another $16.5 million from the existing 2019-20 budget would also go for this purpose, bringing the total tax-funded assistance to $75 million, plus another $4.8 million for administration and outreach.) | ||
| 10.0 | State's share of administration costs for the federal Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer (P-EBT) cards, which will go to families that would have qualified for free or reduced cost K-12 or after-school meals. $1.2 billion in federal funds (not reflected here) will pay for the actual benefits, which are expected to reach 3.8 million kids. | ||
| 1.8 | Extend support for non-minor foster care dependents who otherwise would "age out" of the extended foster care system. | ||
| 1.2 | Provide rate flexibility for foster youth or caregivers who need to respond to COVID-19, such as through isolation or quarantine. | ||
| 13-Apr | SB 89 Letter #9 | $ 42.6 | Foster Care Assistance and Equipment |
| 27.8 | Provide $200 per month for food and other necessities for families with kids who meet criteria for being "at risk" of entry to foster care system | ||
| 3.3 | Funds to reimburse CalWORKs child care providers and to waive some CalWORKs family fees | ||
| 3.0 | Provide CalWORKs-related "diversion" cash assistance to individuals with incomes below 200% of federal poverty | ||
| 8.5 | - Provide additional support to foster caregivers through Family Resource Centers - Provide cell phones and laptops to foster kids for education ($218,000) - Pay for outreach and social worker overtime for Child Welfare Services programs |
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| 10-Apr | SB 89 Letter #8 | $ 50.0 | Child Care Cleaning and Protective Equipment |
| Reimburse "non-local education agency child care providers" for gloves, masks, cleaning supplies, and cleaning labor. Funded through the state Dept. of Education. | |||
| 10-Apr | SB 89 Letter #7 | $ 50.0 | Child Care Access for Essential Workers and At-Risk Populations |
| Expand child care slots through existing providers, including pop-up locations, for essential workers and at-risk populations. Funded through the state Dept. of Education. | |||
| 7-Apr | SB 89 Letter #6 + Reserve Spending #1 |
$ 495.0 | PPE Contract (half payment) to procure 200 million masks per month for two months. |
| $ 188.2 | Portion paid under SB 89. | ||
| $ 306.8 | Portion paid from reserve funds transfer. | ||
| 2-Apr | SB 89 Letter #5 | $ 8.7 | State Prison COVID-19 Prevention |
| 5.7 | Reimburse counties for not taking inmate transfers from county jails | ||
| 3.0 | Pay counties for supervising early-release prisoners through existing program | ||
| 2-Apr | SB 89 Letter #4 | $ 50.0 | Expands Small Business Loan Guarantee Program (operated by California Infrastructure Bank) for businesses that will not qualify for federal programs |
| 31-Mar | SB 89 Letter #3 | $ 111.0 | Seniors, Food Banks, and County Administration |
| 41.0 | Relocation of senior care facility residents | ||
| 20.0 | Support food banks and similar organizations | ||
| 5.0 | Conduct wellness checks for IHSS and other seniors | ||
| 24.3 | Funds for county CalFresh administration | ||
| 8.0 | Funds for county CalWORKs administration | ||
| 12.7 | Funds for county Medi-Cal eligiblity administration | ||
| 20-Mar | SB 89 Letter #2 | $ 42.0 | Hospital capacity, equipment, and transportation |
| 30.0 | Lease Seton and St. Vincent hospitals to expand capacity | ||
| 1.4 | Expand Dept. of Public Health laboratory in Richmond | ||
| 8.6 | Purchase and refurbish ventilators and other equipment | ||
| 2.0 | Contract with AMR for emergency transportation | ||
| 18-Mar | SB 89 Letter #1 | $ 150.0 | Homeless shelter capacity |
| 100.0 | Temporary shelters, services, and supplies | ||
| 50.0 | Hotels, motels, trailers, and wraparound services |
Other Spending (Dollars in Millions)
| Date | Action | Amount | Description |
| 21-May | DREOA transfer #2 | $ 1,831.1 | Transfer under existing law to Disaster Response-Emergency Operations Account (DREOA). Origin of the funds is not specified, though Department of Finance indicates sources are generally those identified in the Governor's May Revision proposal |
| 10-Apr | Informational Letter | NA | Provides interim budget information on state spending, cash flow, revenues, and federal funds. States intent to spend $7 billion on COVID-19 response in 2020, including previously noticed amounts, for which $5.25 billion in federal reimbursement is expected. Also provides copy of a letter from Gov. Newsom to Speaker Pelosi seeking $1 trillion in additional federal aid for the country overall. |
| 1-Apr | Executive order | Unknown | Governor issues order citing authority to spend from any legally available fund to provide surge capacity and medical supplies and equipment |
| 25-Mar | Reserve transfer | 1,300.0 | Transfer under existing law from Special fund for Economic Uncertainties (reserve account) to Disaster Response-Emergency Operations Account (DREOA) |
| 17-Mar | SB 117 signed | 100.0 | Appropriates $100 million to help schools obtain protective equipment and cleaning supplies. Protects schools from loss of attendance funds due to closure. |
| 17-Mar | SB 89 signed | 1,000.0 | Provides $500 million initially with additional $50 million increments available up to a total of $1 billion, subject to 72-hour notice to Joint Legislative Budget Committee |