The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - When proposing new projects, the administration generally follows the ranked project priority list identified in the judicial branch ’s 2019 assessment of facility needs. Since 2021 ‑22, the construction or renovation of about a dozen of the highest ranked immediate need projects have commenced.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The California State Bar: Considerations for a Fee Increase

Jun 26, 2019 - State Bar rank ‑and ‑file employees are organized into two bargaining units —one represents attorneys and the other represents other rank ‑and ‑file employees. The rank ‑and ‑file employees are represented at the bargaining table by Service Employees International, Local 1000 —the largest state employee union.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4080

The 2023-24 Budget: Office of the State Public Defender

Feb 15, 2023 - Research indicates that a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace can have various benefits —such as increased employee morale, longevity, and productivity. Additionally, as noted by OSPD, 76  percent of its attorneys are white, while 78  percent of its active death penalty clients are non-white.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4680

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

Jun 19, 2015 - In the case of rank-and-file employees subject to collective bargaining, the Governor may not order prefunding these benefits except upon legislative approval of future labor agreements or other legislation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3278

The 2023-24 Budget: Judicial Branch Budget Proposals

Feb 10, 2023 - Accordingly, the 2021 ‑22 and 2022 ‑23 budgets included General Fund support to start the construction or renovation of nearly a dozen of the highest ranked immediate need projects identified  in the judicial branch ’s 2019 assessment of facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4673

The 2020-21 Budget: Effectively Managing State Prison Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2020 - Ranking facilities based on the above criteria —and any other criteria that the Legislature may wish to consider —would allow the state to identify which two prisons to close in the near term. We recommend that the Legislature direct the department to provide this prison ranking before the May Revision as this information would help inform deliberations on the 2020 ‑ 21 b udget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4186

The 2022-23 Budget: Judicial Branch Proposals

Feb 3, 2022 - The 2021 ‑22 budget also included funding to start the construction or renovation of six of the highest ranked immediate need projects identified in Judicial Council ’s 2019 reassessment of facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4513

The 2017-18 Budget: Governor’s Criminal Fine and Fee Proposals

Mar 3, 2017 - For example, the Legislature could approve an expenditure plan that ranks programs in priority order. To the extent revenues are lower than expected, lower priority programs would be required to implement additional expenditure reductions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3600

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - The state has never made regular contributions to rank-and-file employees ’ Savings Plus accounts. (CalHR informs us that the state briefly contributed a small specified dollar amount to excluded employees ’ Savings Plus accounts in the early 2000s.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

The 2017‑18 Budget: Implementation of Proposition 57

Apr 6, 2017 - Inclusion of Certain Offenders With Violent Convictions. The administration ’s emergency regulations make certain offenders convicted of offenses defined in statute as violent eligible for the new parole consideration process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3648