California's enacted 2026-27 budget carries $15M for promotora workforce training — the affirmative answer to the May Revision omission we flagged June 4

The California EDGE Coalition's summary of the enacted 2026-27 state budget, published July 21, 2026, states the budget 'Allocates $15 million to support workforce training and expansion for promotoras – trusted community health care workers who help connect underserved families' to care. This is the resolution of a thread this feed has been tracking: our June 4 item recorded that the Governor's May Revision had LEFT OUT a $4M one-time General Fund CHW investment that community health worker advocates had sought.

The enacted figure is larger than that ask and is described as supporting training and expansion. READ THE SOURCING BOUNDARY HONESTLY: this is a coalition budget summary, not the Budget Act text itself, and the underlying primary instrument is the Budget Act signed June 29, 2026 — a reviewer swapping in the enacted bill or a Department of Finance line citation would strengthen this item.

EDGE also notes the appropriation is modest relative to the demand increase advocates expect as H.R. 1's Medicaid provisions phase in, so read $15M as directional support for the CHW/promotora workforce rather than as capacity that closes the gap.

For California FQHCs this is a real, plannable funding stream for CHW hiring and training — the operative question for a workforce lead is which entity administers it and when the solicitation opens, neither of which the summary states.