The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget provides $5  million in one-time General Fund for California Volunteers to offer grants to AmeriCorps programs to fund coaches at K-12 schools. This program has received limited-term funding in prior years, including $5  million in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2015-16 Budget: Addressing Deferred Maintenance in State Office Buildings [Publication Details]

Mar 19, 2015 - The Department of General Services owns and maintains 58 office buildings across the state, and the current backlog of maintenance projects for these buildings totals an estimated $138 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3216

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

Feb 10, 2016 - (Annual ongoing costs for the facilities that are not state eligible initially would total $58  million.) Issues for Legislative Consideration Recommend Early Legislative Hearings. Under the new capital outlay process established for UC under Chapter  50, the Legislature must send clear signals to the Governor by April 1 if it wishes to influence UC projects on state –eligible facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3349

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The offset from the fund balance includes $5  million that became unrestricted as the budget package reduced the statutorily required trial court emergency reserve from $10  million to $5  million. The budget also reverts up to $50.7  million one-time General Fund provided in prior budgets —$30.1  million from 2022-23 and $20.6  million from 2023- 24 —for various purposes to help address the state ’s budget problem.
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

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

Debt Service on Infrastructure Bonds

Nov 15, 2017 - DSR Expected to Remain Below 5  Percent. We estimate that the DSR will remain somewhat below 5  percent over the next several years. This is because we project that General Fund revenues will increase at roughly the same pace as debt-service costs over the projection period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3713

The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - The budget also provides $5  million and associated reporting language for an operational observer to monitor the efforts of Pacific Gas & Electric (PG &E) to implement steps to mitigate the risk of wildfire ignitions from PG &E ’s infrastructure and limit the effects of public safety power shutdowns.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277

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

Jan 13, 2020 - While the Legislature could set this fund balance to any amount greater than zero, since 2015 ‑ 16 t he state has enacted balances in the SFEU of around $1. 5  b illion. $1.6   Billion in Ongoing Spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135