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

Feb 25, 2025 - The mental health care provided at the prisons is subject to the oversight of a Special Master appointed as part of the Coleman v. Newsom federal court case, which ruled in 1995 that CDCR was not providing constitutionally adequate mental health care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - In addition, the budget package includes language that would allow the Department of Finance to make payments from the General Fund for any fines related to staffing vacancies in the Coleman v. Newsom court case related to the provision of prison mental health care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Apr 11, 2025 - The proposed formula has three different payments: (1)  a performance payment, (2)  a maintenance payment, and (3)  a minimum guarantee payment. These payments would determine each county ’s total SB  678 grant award.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

Jan 13, 2020 - The Governor ’s budget includes $1. 9  b illion in total one ‑time Proposition  98 spending —the $1. 1  b illion from 2020 ‑21, plus an additional $ 819  m illion attributed to the prior and current fiscal years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

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

Oct 17, 2019 - This represents an increase of 1  percent from 2018 ‑19. This total includes $7.1  billion for general obligation bonds ($4.7  billion from the General Fund) and $1  billion for lease revenue bonds ($651  million from the General Fund).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

The 2015-16 Budget: Effectively Implementing the 2014 Water Bond [Publication Details]

Feb 11, 2015 - On November 4, 2014, voters approved the water bond measure—Proposition 1. In this report, we (1) describe Proposition 1, (2) review the Governor’s proposals to implement the bond, (3) identify key implementation principles, and (4) recommend steps for the Legislature to ensure that the bond is implemented effectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3171

The 2019-20 Budget: Deferred Maintenance

Feb 8, 2019 - (The budget also allocates significant funding for maintaining transportation facilities, including $1. 2  b illion from Chapter  5, Statutes of 2017 [S B  1 , Beall] for the repair and maintenance of the state ’s highway system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3929

The 2019-20 Budget: Deferred Maintenance

Feb 8, 2019 - (The budget also allocates significant funding for maintaining transportation facilities, including $1. 2  b illion from Chapter  5, Statutes of 2017 [S B  1 , Beall] for the repair and maintenance of the state ’s highway system.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/3929

The 2019-20 Budget: Deferred Maintenance [Publication Details]

Feb 8, 2019 - We recommend that the Legislature require (1) departments receiving funding to report at budget hearings on the approach they will use to prioritize projects, as well as specific projects they plan to undertake; (2) the Department of Finance to report, no later than January 1, 2023, on which projects departments ultimately undertook with the funds provided; and
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3929