The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - This amount was approved via three different 2025 budget actions: (1) $181  million provided through Chapter  2 of 2025 (A B  100 , Gabriel) (these funds were available for departments to spend during the final few months of 2024 ‑25), (2) $2.9  million through Chapter  5 of 2025 (A B  102 , Gabriel), and (3) $3.3  billion through Chapter  104 of 2025 (S B  105 , Wiener).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5115

The 2023-24 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Expenditure Plan and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Revenue Estimates

Mar 2, 2023 - Figure 1 2023 ‑24 Governor ’s Budget Cap ‑and ‑Trade Spending Plan (In Millions) Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program 421 Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program 210 Low Carbon Transit Operations Program 105 Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Program 105 State Responsibility Area Fee Backfill 79 Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Program
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4730

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This amount represents a $105  million (24  percent) reduction from the revised 2024-25 level. (This does not reflect some adjustments related to Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12 of the 2024-25 and 2025-26 budgets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2025 - This amount was approved via three different 2025 budget actions: (1) $181  million provided through Chapter  2 (AB  100, Gabriel) in April 2025 (these funds were available for departments to spend during the final few months of 2024-25); (2) $2.9  million through Chapter  5 (AB  102, Gabriel); and (3) $3.3  billion through Chapter  104 (SB  105, Weiner).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

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

May 5, 2025 - Since 2016, the water boa rds have been trying to design permits in a way that minimizes creation of state-reimbursable mandates while also continuing to enforce state and federal water quality laws.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

May 7, 2025 - For more detail, please see our 2016 report, Cap‑and‑Trade Revenues: Strategies to Promote Legislative Priorities . In Some Limited Cases, GGRF Revenues Can Also Be Used to Reduce GHG Emissions. While adjusting the program design generally is the most impactful and cost ‑effective approach to reducing GHGs, the state could achieve some additional GHG reductions with the use of GGRF revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5042

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

May 27, 2025 - Starting in about 2016, Governor Brown —and, subsequently, Governor Newsom —encouraged SWRCB to consider VAs as an alternative to the regulatory approach. However, VA parties did not submit an initial VA memorandum of understanding to SWRCB until March  2022, and they continue to refine the proposal ’s details to this day.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5053

Residential Water Use Trends and Implications for Conservation Policy

Mar 8, 2017 - By comparison, during the cooler and wetter months of January through March of 2016, average per capita water use was only 64 gallons per person per day. Water Use Higher in Last Half of 2016 Compared to 2015 . . .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3611

What Can We Learn From How the State Responded to the Last Major Drought?

May 13, 2021 - Major Policy Changes In addition to increased funding, the state ’s response to the 2012 t o 2016 drought included both temporary and permanent policy changes. (For a detailed list of significant drought ‑related policy changes implemented through the beginning of 2016, please see the Appendix of our report, The 2016‑17 Budget: The State’s Drought Response .)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4429

The 2016-17 Budget: California Public Utilities Commission

Feb 25, 2016 - The 2016-17 Budget: California Public Utilities Commission The 2016-17 Budget California Public Utilities Commission The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) regulates privately owned electric, natural gas, telecommunications, water, railroad, rail transit, and passenger transportation companies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3373