The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Shifts Support for Climate Corps to General Fund. The budget shifts $9.4  million in support for the California Volunteers ’ Climate Corps program from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the General Fund on an ongoing basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 25, 2025 - CDCR has launched various certified peer support specialist training programs through which people can learn to work as peer support providers while in prison. For example, peer support specialists can help with alcohol and drug recovery, navigating health care systems, teaching people how to advocate for themselves, and promoting self ‑care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - Additionally, the budget package sets aside funding to support any increases for these benefits that occur during 2024-25. Fine and Fee Related Backfills Supporting Trial Court Operations. The budget package generally retains General Fund backfills provided in last year ’s budget to address various declines in fine and fee revenue supporting trial court operations, but adjusts one backfill.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Apr 11, 2025 - Because the 2011 realignment shifted responsibility for various correctional populations from the state to the counties, it also shifted a portion of sales tax revenue to counties to support this workload.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - CDCR ’s budget includes non ‑Proposition  98 General Fund to cover technology and technology support for rehabilitation programs, including community college and other postsecondary courses. CDCR  employs technology support staff primarily to (1)  manage and maintain the technology infrastructure at state prisons or (2)  serve as liaisons between the colleges and students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2023-24 Budget: Financing Approaches for Capital Outlay Projects

Feb 28, 2023 - Importantly, without this level of detail, whether t he fund has sufficient capacity to support the debt service is unclear. If there is insufficient budget capacity, then approving the bonds could force the state to reduce programmatic activities supported by the fund and/or increase the taxes or fees supporting the fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - The budget also provides $5.2  million on a one-time basis in 2020 ‑21 from various funds to support four entities —the Acupuncture Board; Board of Chiropractic Examiners; Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists; and the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education —in their ongoing efforts to implement new IT systems to support their licensing and enforcement activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277

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

Oct 17, 2019 - The budget provides General Fund support for the demolition of the existing State Printing Plant buildings and other associated structures. Resources Building Renovation ($8.9  Million). The budget provides General Fund support for the initial planning phase —known as the performance criteria —for the renovation of the Resources Building, a roughly 520,000 net useable square feet building.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - The 2019 ‑ 20 p ackage of budget proposals seems to signal the new administration ’s willingness to support the LCFF and LCAP systems. Such continuity could be of significant benefit to districts as they budget, build their strategic academic plans, identify their performance problems, and access support to address those problems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

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

Jan 13, 2020 - This assumption is plausible, but there currently is limited evidence to support it. There are other reasonable explanations for this pattern which would suggest that the recent uptick in corporation tax receipts will not necessarily persist.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135