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

Feb 25, 2025 - CDCR cannot modify the number of beds without notifying the Special Master and receiving approval from the Coleman court. CDCR Is Constructing a Mental Health Crisis Facility at CIM to Reduce Unlicensed Beds and Transfer Time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Apr 11, 2025 - Through this payment, each county would receive about 89  percent of what it received in 2024-25, irrespective of the county ’s performance. The maintenance payment is intended to provide counties with stable funding for evidence-based practices.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons Life Without the Possibility of Parole and Death Penalty Sentences 8 6 a Data on CCC students incarcerated at CDCR are from the spring 2023 term, whereas the data on the overall CDCR population is a snapshot from October 31, 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 During the special session called by the Governor, the Legislature added Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 to the 2024-25 Budget Act providing up to $2.5  billion one-time from the General Fund for response and recovery costs related to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

Ten Years Later: Progress Towards Expending the 2006 Bond Funds

Jan 3, 2017 - Coordination with nonstate entities —such as federal or local governments —can make projects more complicated to complete, adding several years to project timelines in some cases. Challenges include requirements to acquire permits from multiple agencies and gaining funding commitments from other entities to share in project costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3519

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—Deferred Maintenance

May 15, 2018 - DOF must notify the JLBC of any projects added with estimated costs of greater than $1  million, as well as provide a quarterly report of all additions and removals of projects. Unlike in prior years, the administration ’s proposal includes a provision that would allow departments to use up 10  percent of their allocations —up to $5  million —to conduct assessment of department infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3841

Evaluating California's Pursuit of Zero Net Energy State Buildings

Nov 14, 2017 - For example, the Lottery estimated that adding ZNE to its completed Santa Fe Springs District Office added 17  p ercent to the cost of constructing the project. Additionally, the DMV estimated that the cost of adding ZNE to its planned Reedley Field Office facility is expected to add 29  p ercent to the building ’s construction costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3711

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

Feb 26, 2025 - Whereas, people who possessed drugs prior to Proposition  47 could be charged with a felony even without any prior convictions. Second, it requires that people are generally given the option of treatment in lieu of incarceration in county jail or state prison.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The reduction results in a net General Fund backfill of $40  million in 2024-25 and $89  million annually beginning in 2025-26. The budget provides $101  million in new lease revenue bond authority for the construction phase of two projects —$89.5  million for the Sixth District Court of Appeal project and an additional $11.5  million for the Sonoma Santa Rosa Criminal Courthouse project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The Administration’s Sacramento Office Building Construction Strategy: Ensuring Robust Oversight

Dec 14, 2016 - The weaknesses of the existing SPIF process would be magnified if additional funds are added to the account in the future. The statute governing the SPIF provides the administration with the discretion to establish and fund new projects with JLBC notification rather than legislative approval.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3516