The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - California Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Empowerment (HOPE) for Children Trust Account Program Transfers $40  Million from Fund Providing Investment Accounts for Foster Youth to General Fund. The 2022-23 budget provided $100  million and $15  million ongoing to the California HOPE for Children Trust Account Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2023-24 Budget: Financing Approaches for Capital Outlay Projects

Feb 28, 2023 - Cash Financing Presents Trade-Off Between Reducing Long-Term Obligations and Funding Short-Term Budget Priorities. Ultimately, the Legislature will have to weigh the trade-off between reducing long-term budget obligations versus funding short-term budget priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program a Calculated as the average felony probation failure ‑to ‑prison rate between 2006 and 2008. b State savings were calculated at about $29,000 per person diverted from prison and parole.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - Dynamic security is an approach to security that promotes positive relationships between staff and incarcerated people through purposeful activities and professional, positive, and respectful  communication.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Although the partnership between CCC and CDCR has expanded community college enrollment at state prisons, there is not an existing evaluation component that analyzes the specific impact of a CCC education on recidivism, employment rates, and wages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2016-17 Budget: Governor’s General Fund Deferred Maintenance Proposal

Feb 12, 2016 - The state has invested many billions of dollars in its infrastructure assets, which play critical roles in the state ’s economy. Moreover, when repairs to key building and infrastructure components are put off, facilities can eventually require more expensive investments, such as emergency repairs (when systems break down), capital improvements (such as major rehabilitation), or replacement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3353

The 2016-17 Budget: Review of UC’s Merced Campus Expansion Proposal

Feb 10, 2016 - Projections of public high school graduates fluctuate between small increases and decreases over the next several years, with a less than 1  percent increase in graduates between 2015 –16 and 2019 –20 .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3349

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—Deferred Maintenance

May 15, 2018 - The state has invested many billions of dollars in its infrastructure assets, which play critical roles in the state ’s economy. Moreover, when repairs to key building and infrastructure components are put off, facilities can eventually require more expensive investments, such as emergency repairs (when systems break down), capital improvements (such as major rehabilitation), or replacement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3841

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - (The program provides opportunities for formerly incarcerated individuals to serve as life coaches and mentors for the incarcerated population.) The remaining $12  million will be used to construct spaces for outdoor recreation and programming at SQ.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - The 2018 ‑ 19 b udget package created the Safety Net Reserve to save money specifically for California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) and Medi ‑Cal. (During a recession, these programs typically have increased expenditures as caseload increases.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135