The 2025-26 Budget: Natural Resources and Agriculture Discretionary Spending Proposals [Publication Details]

Feb 18, 2025 - This brief discusses three discretionary General Fund spending proposals in the agriculture and natural resources policy areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4967

The 2025-26 Budget: Natural Resources and Agriculture Discretionary Spending Proposals

Feb 18, 2025 - The 2025 ‑26 Governor ’s Budget includes three notable new discretionary one ‑time General Fund expenditures in the agriculture and natural resources policy areas: (1) $24.9  million for the California Department of Food and Agriculture ’s (CDFA ’s) Farm to School Program, (2) $10  million for the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) to provide to the privately owned and
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4967

The 2025-26 Budget: May Revision Trailer Bill Proposals on the Delta Conveyance Project and Water Quality Control Plans

May 27, 2025 - The VAs likely would benefit water agencies and their customers because the agencies would not have to limit their water use to the same extent they would under the regulatory unimpaired flows approach.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5053

An Initial Review of the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program

Dec 13, 2021 - Third, grantees differ in their use of priority ranking. Some partner agencies within regions ranked all of their identified priority projects numerically or in tiers. In other cases, neither the RFFC grantee nor their partner agencies identified any prioritization of the projects in their regional priority plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4482

The 2024-25 Budget: CalFire—Implementation of a 66-Hour Workweek

Mar 19, 2024 - For example, the Legislature could look into creating a Lieutenant classification as a rank between Fire Captain and Fire Apparatus Engineer, which could enable Fire Apparatus Engineers to promote more quickly.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4886

Improving California’s Response to the Environmental and Safety Hazards Caused by Abandoned Mines

Aug 4, 2020 - The strategic plan should include a summary of inventoried mine features ranked to identify high ‑, medium ‑, and low ‑priority sites for remediation. For high ‑priority sites, the summary should include the mine name, ownership, administrative agency, and estimated cost of remediation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4258

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Water Resources

Mar 2, 2023 - SGMA Required Local Agencies to Submit Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs). SGMA assigns primary responsibility for ongoing groundwater management to local entities, through the required formation of groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4725

The 2015-16 Budget: Major Features of the Adopted Plan (Other Issues)

Jun 19, 2015 - Allows local water agencies to issue penalties for violations of local and state water conservation regulations with penalties up to $10,000 for first violation (increasing for continuing violations).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3278

The 2025-26 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Reauthorization and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Proposals at May Revision

May 19, 2025 - The planned reductions affect multiyear spending plans included in prior budget agreements for activities such as the AB  617 community air protection program, support for local transit agencies, and various zero-emission vehicle programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5049

Frequently Asked Questions About Wildfires in California

Jan 28, 2025 - Federal funding for wildfire response can come from a variety of programs and may be distributed to state agencies and local governments. Often the first federal aid that the state receives for wildfire response comes through the Federal Emergency Management Agency ’s (FEMAs ’) Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4952