Senate Budget Committee hearing agenda 2026-06-29
Citation
California State Senate, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review (Senator John Laird, Chair). Hearing agenda and bill analyses, June 29, 2026. https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/system/files/2026-06/june-29-2026-hearing-agenda-senate-budget.pdf. Copy: raw/legislative/2026-11-09 Senate Budget Committee hearing agenda 2026-06-29.md (original: .pdf beside it). Read 2026-11-09.
Bottom line
- The agenda lists 20 bills of the 2026-27 budget package, with a staff analysis of each. They include AB 111, the Budget Bill Junior, and the trailer bills for higher education, labor and state government.
- The budget spends “approximately $351.7 billion”, of which $251.5 billion is General Fund. The agenda does not name CalCompute.
Background
The committee heard the budget package on June 29, 2026. Each analysis gives the bill’s summary, its proposed law in numbered items, and its fiscal effect. Some items are about technology and the public workforce. Examples are the Middle Mile Broadband Initiative, generative AI at Caltrans and the Learning Lab’s move to the Government Operations Agency.
Key claims
- “The 2026-27 budget includes total spending of approximately $351.7 billion, of which $251.5 billion is from the General Fund.” (AB 111, Background, p. 1)
- “Appropriates $7.2 million from the State Highway Account to continue development of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for safer and smarter roadways at the California Department of Transportation.” (AB 111, item 148)
- “Allows, subject to notification provisions to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, for an augmentation of up to $22 million general fund to the Department of Technology for the Middle Mile Broadband Initiative.” (AB 111, item 111)
- “Transfers the California Education Learning Lab from the Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to the Government Operations Agency and codifies program details.” (AB 172, item 1)
- “Requires the CCCCO to establish the Common Cloud Data Platform to create a unified, modern data infrastructure to enhance statewide reporting, data sharing, and available analytical tools across participating community college districts and the Chancellor’s Office, among other conforming changes.” (AB 135, item 12)
- “Appropriates $16 million Proposition 98 General Fund to support increased related and supplemental instruction hour costs to apprenticeship programs for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 fiscal years.” (AB 135, item 10)
Evidence and method
A legislative committee agenda with staff analyses. It gives amounts by item but not the bill text. The amounts are those of the June 26, 2026 amended versions.
Limits
The agenda has no line for CalCompute, the consortium or research compute. It does not show the final enacted budget. The Markdown copy breaks some tables in the header; the original PDF is the authority.