The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Proposition  2 (2014) requires the state to spend a specified amount of money (determined through a budgetary formula) each year towards eligible liabilities. It has been state policy to satisfy this requirement through the state ’s General Fund contributions to prefund retiree health benefits and annual supplemental pension payments to the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The offset from the fund balance includes $5  million that became unrestricted as the budget package reduced the statutorily required trial court emergency reserve from $10  million to $5  million. The budget also reverts up to $50.7  million one-time General Fund provided in prior budgets —$30.1  million from 2022-23 and $20.6  million from 2023- 24 —for various purposes to help address the state ’s budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Oct 17, 2019 - Under the state ’s current policy to pay for retiree health benefits, (1)  the state and employees each contribute an amount of money —established as a percentage of pay through the collective bargaining process —to prefund the benefits employees earn today and (2)  the state pays the costs of the benefit for current retirees on a pay-as-you-go basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 20, 2018 - Three buildings would be medium rise (5 floors) and one building would be high rise (up to 29 floors). While most of the building complex would be office space, it would also include other space such as for retail and a childcare center.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3758

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

Jan 13, 2020 - Under the Governor ’s budget, the minimum guarantee is up $ 302  m illion in 2018 ‑19 and $ 517  m illion in 2019 ‑ 20 c ompared to the estimates from the 2019 ‑ 20 b udget package. For 2020 ‑21, the administration estimates the minimum guarantee is $ 84  b illion, an increase of $2. 5  b illion ( 3  p ercent) over the revised 2019 ‑ 20 l evel.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

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

Feb 25, 2025 - APPs provide shorter ‑term, intensive treatment for people who show signs of a major mental illness or higher ‑level symptoms of a chronic mental illness. Patients are supposed to be transferred to an APP within 72 hours of the referral, but no more than ten days after the referral and can generally stay up to 45 days.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Feb 28, 2023 - Assuming a bond carries a 5  percent interest rate, the total cost of paying the debt over a 30-year period is close to $2 for each $1 borrowed —$1 for repaying the amount borrowed and close to $1 for interest.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

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

Apr 11, 2025 - To the extent SB  678 grant awards are no longer keeping up with county costs to operate effective and efficient supervision programs, the administration could request increases based on actual costs in the future.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Students may receive a Pell Grant for up to six years of full ‑time enrollment or the equivalent, with part ‑time students eligible to receive prorated awards over a longer period. (For example, a student enrolled half time could receive about $3,700 annually for up to 12 years.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2019-20 Budget: Deferred Maintenance

Feb 8, 2019 - Figure  2 summarizes the administration ’s proposal. (The budget also allocates significant funding for maintaining transportation facilities, including $1. 2  b illion from Chapter  5, Statutes of 2017 [S B  1 , Beall] for the repair and maintenance of the state ’s highway system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3929