The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - The 2018 ‑ 19 b udget approved the first step of this plan by providing an across ‑the ‑board 10  p ercent grant increase effective April 1, 2019. The Governor ’s budget proposes to further increase CalWORKs grants by 13. 1  p ercent, which would raise grant levels to 50  p ercent of FPL for a family of three.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - The budget provides $8.1  billion from various funds for debt service payments in 2019 ‑20. This represents an increase of 1  percent from 2018 ‑19. This total includes $7.1  billion for general obligation bonds ($4.7  billion from the General Fund) and $1  billion for lease revenue bonds ($651  million from the General Fund).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Capital Outlay

Oct 17, 2019 - The project receiving the most funding in 2019 ‑20 is DGS ’s New Richards Boulevard Office Complex in Sacramento ($1  billion). This and some other individual capital outlay projects are discussed in more detail in the other 2019 ‑20 Spending Plan posts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4105

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - However, the language prohibits augmentations that would require an increase in the monthly 9-1-1 surcharge rate. The language also requires OES to provide the Legislature with two progress reports on the project —which has faced significant implementation challenges —on or before November 1, 2025 and March  1, 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - This is a net decrease of about $2  billion, or 61  percent, compared to the estimated spending level for 2019 ‑20. This decrease primarily reflects the expiration of the following one-time funding provided in 2019 ‑20: (1) $1  billion in lease revenue bond funding to construct the Richards Boulevard Office Building Complex in
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277

The 2019-20 Budget: Deferred Maintenance

Feb 8, 2019 - Additionally, we recommend that the Legislature adopt SRL that requires that, no later than January  1, 2023, each department that is receiving deferred maintenance funding in 2019 ‑ 20 i dentify how their deferred maintenance backlog has changed since 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3929

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

Jan 13, 2020 - As mentioned earlier, the Governor proposes a year ‑end balance in the SFEU of $1. 6  b illion. This represents a $ 230  m illion increase relative to the enacted level of the fund for the end of 2019 ‑20.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

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

Apr 11, 2025 - In 2023-24, each county received their highest SB  678 grant award from the prior three fiscal years (2018-19, 2019-20, or 2020-21) due to concerns that grant awards would fluctuate for reasons unrelated to performance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

Feb 25, 2025 - The administration estimates that Proposition 36 will have no impact on the average daily parole population in 2024‑25 but will cause it to be about 360 higher (or 1 percent) than it otherwise would be in 2025‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - In fall 2019 (the year just before the pandemic), the gap in success rates between in ‑person and correspondence courses was 15  percentage points. The gap shrunk temporarily during the pandemic as success rates for in ‑person courses declined as a result of disruptions to in ‑person  programming.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913