The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - In both cases, (1)  the assumed level of savings is lower than what was assumed as part of the 2024-25 budget package and (2) savings that were assumed unallocated in 2024-25 are assumed to be distributed to departments in 2025-26 Control Section 4.05: Reduced Operational Costs Distributed to Departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - Figure  2 shows the recent and projected changes in the prison and parole populations. As shown in the figure, the prison population is projected to decrease by about 3,400 (4  percent) from 94,200 in 2023-24 to 90,900 in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Apr 11, 2025 - This is $10.4  million (8.9  percent) more than the 2024-25 amount. Figure  2 provides an example of how a county grant award would be calculated. New Methodology for Calculating State Savings Per Person Diverted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

Feb 25, 2025 - CDCR needs 341  MHCBs systemwide in 2025 ‑26, but it is proposing to operate 449   MHCBs —an excess of 109 MHCBs (84 at men ’s prisons and 25  at women ’s prisons). Furthermore, CDCR ’s MHCB needs are projected to decline by 25  additional beds by June of 2029.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 26, 2025 - This means that the $88.3  million in state savings estimated to occur in 2024-25 and reflected in the 2025-26 Governor ’s budget as a transfer from the General Fund to the SNSF is likely underestimated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Feb 28, 2023 - For example, at projected interest rates in fall 2023, the Governor ’s proposal to use $491  million cash for certain capital outlay projects avoids about $42  million in annual debt service payments over the next 25 years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Currently, 80 community colleges —including all 25 colleges providing instruction to students at CDCR —receive a grant from this program. (The state also provides $15  million ongoing Proposition  98 General Fund for students in county juvenile correctional facilities for similar purposes.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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 Sacramento and (2) $1  billion for
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277

The 2016-17 Budget: Review of UC’s Merced Campus Expansion Proposal

Feb 10, 2016 - At the same time, these campuses have enrolled more nonresident undergraduate students, increasing the nonresident share of their undergraduate enrollment from under 10  percent in fall 2007 to about 25  percent in fall 2015.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3349

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

Oct 17, 2019 - The total funds $221.7  million will be granted to counties on a 75/25 state/county match basis. Labor Programs Lengthens State ’s Paid Family Leave Benefit by Two Weeks. California ’s paid family leave program provides up to 70  percent wage replacement to workers who take time off to bond with a new child or care for an ill family member.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101