The 2025-26 Budget: May Revision Trailer Bill Proposals on the Delta Conveyance Project and Water Quality Control Plans

May 27, 2025 - A key question is whether all of the potential environmental impacts of different approaches would be identifie d or fully understood, considered, compared, and adequately addressed without the analysis the board currently undertakes to prepare substitute environmental documents.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5053

LAO Recommended Legislation [Publication Details]

Dec 1, 2008 - Recommendations in this report include, among many others: (a) Simplify and Consolidate K-12 General Purpose Funding, (b) Promote the Adoption of Health Information Technology in California, (c) Fund Inmate Education Programs Based on Actual Attendance, and (d) Increase and Index the State Gas Tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1897

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Sep 12, 2024 - Figure reflects total amounts from 2022 ‑23 through 2027 ‑28. b Includes federal funds, interagency reimbursements, and Environmental License Plate Fund. FS = Fund Shift; R = Reduction; and D = Delay.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4928

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2023 - Figure 4 General Fund Unless Otherwise Noted (In Millions) Program 2021 ‑22 and 2022 ‑23 2023 ‑24 2025 ‑26 and 2026 ‑27 Totals Investments in Strategic Reliability Assets DWR Energy data infrastructure and analysis CEC a Reflects the reduction in total funding from 2022 ‑23 through 2025 ‑26. b Includes $60 million from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF). c Includes $345 million GGRF. d Funded with GGRF. e Includes $22 million GGRF.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4807

Assessing California’s Climate Policies: Cap-and-Trade Reauthorization

May 7, 2025 - Through A B  398 , the Legislature opted to provide more specific direction about certain program design features —such as specifying the share of compliance obligations that can be met with offsets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5042

The 2018-19 Budget: Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 14, 2018 - Specifically, these renovations would ( 1)  r eplace and upgrade existing facilities (such as the staff barracks and equipment storage facilities), ( 2)  a dd privacy to showers and bathrooms in existing dormitories, ( 3)  c onstruct a separate dormitory for female participants, ( 4)  c onstruct additional administrative and classroom space, and ( 5)  b uild a gym for staff.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3747

Cap-and-Trade Revenues: Strategies to Promote Legislative Priorities

Jan 21, 2016 - Without establishing a cap, Companies  A,  B,  C, and D would each have one emission. To establish a cap, the state issues three allowances. As a result, only three companies can obtain an allowance and continue to emit, while one company is forced to reduce its emission.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3328

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - State law further requires our office to analyze any new mandates identified by the C ommission as a part of our annual analysis of the state budget. In particular, state law directs our office to report on the annual state costs for new mandates and make recommendations to the Legislature as to whether the new mandate should be repealed (permanently eliminating it or making it optional), suspended (rendering it inoperative for one year), modified, or funded.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Residential Electricity Rates in California

Jan 7, 2025 - Chapter  488 of 2006 (A B  32 , N ú ñez) established the goal of limiting GHG emissions statewide to  1990 levels by 2020. In 2016, Chapter  249 (S B  32 , Pavley) extended the limit to  40  percent below  1990 levels by  2030.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950

The 2019-20 Budget: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 14, 2019 - The budget proposes $3. 4  m illion in one ‑time funding for 23 p ositions for SWRCB to ( 1)  m ap high ‑risk aquifers and process water quality data from small water systems, ( 2)  d evelop an assessment of the total annual funding needed to assist water systems in the state to deliver safe drinking water, ( 3)  d evelop an implementation plan that includes
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3933