The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Proposition  2 (2024) Workload. The budget provides DGS $59.5  million over 5 years (including $12.5  million in 2025-26) from the 2024 State School Facilities Fund and $356,000 ongoing from various funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - This amount includes $8  million General Fund in 2024- 25 —generally increasing to $8.2  million ($5  million General Fund and $3.2  million Fingerprint Fees Account) annually beginning in 2028- 29 —for the implementation of Chapter  249 of 2023 (SB  2, Portantino) related to carry concealed weapon licenses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - At full implementation, this would include 24.8 custody positions, 8 plant operations positions, 5 information technology positions, 2 librarian positions, and 1 position to support community engagement (such as by processing security clearances for volunteers to enter the prison).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Apr 11, 2025 - The proposed formula has three different payments: (1)  a performance payment, (2)  a maintenance payment, and (3)  a minimum guarantee payment. These payments would determine each county ’s total SB  678 grant award.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - For incarcerated students, the graduation rate over these periods is very low —less than 5  percent. This is significantly lower than graduation rates for other CCC students (with an overall three ‑year graduation rate approaching 20  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

Jan 13, 2020 - 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. Higher property tax revenue and higher General Fund revenue each account for about half of the increase in the 2020 ‑21 guarantee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - The major changes in Chapter  157 include (1)  changing DBO ’s name to the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI), (2)  authorizing DFPI to promulgate regulations requiring a registration process for businesses offering consumer financial products or services that were previously unregulated, (3)  providing DFPI additional enforcement authority, (4)  reorganizing the department, and (5)  establishing the Financial Technology Innovation Office.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277

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

Oct 17, 2019 - Budget-related legislation adopted as part of the 2019-20 spending plan provides $5  million one-time General Fund to the Labor Commissioner ’s Office (within DIR) to fund a three-year outreach effort.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

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