California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - After the dot-com bust and the Great Recession, it took four and five years, respectively, for revenues to recover. Incorporating revenue risk into the budget now, therefore, reflects prudence, not pessimism.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 16, 2023 - Appendix 4, Figure 7 Remaining Large One ‑Time and Temporary Augmentations From the 2021 ‑22 and 2022 ‑23 Budget Packages: Resources and Environment General Fund (In Millions) Emergency surge (helitanker contract component) $45 Clean Energy Reliability Investment Plan (SB 846) 100 Diablo Canyon land use planning — Coastal resilience SB 1 implementation 55 Clean Cars 4 All and
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4788/4

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - The budget provides a total of $45  million of Proposition  56 revenues to the department for various law enforcement activities required by the measure. This includes (1)  $9  million in revenues from 2016 ‑17 that were deposited after the enactment of Proposition  56 in November 2016 and (2)  $36  million in revenues for 2017 ‑18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/11

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan

Sep 6, 2024 - The budget package also includes $94 million in one‑time General Fund for flood prevention activities, $65 million in one‑time GGRF for projects at the Salton Sea, and roughly $45 million in ongoing General Fund to make recent temporary expansions of CalFire hand crews permanent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4922

Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - The primary cost drivers are security (such as correctional officer pay) —which accounts for 45  percent of the total —and health care —which accounts for 30  percent. Since 2006-07, the average annual cost to incarcerate an inmate has increased by $29,000, or about 70  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3511/4

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Nov 8, 2023 - Chapter 45 of 2023 (AB 127, Committee on Budget) also requires CDT to update the middle-mile network map on its website within 60 days of any contract to build or lease middle-mile broadband infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4814

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - For California, the dot ‑com era —when stocks rose and then fell precipitously in response to widespread adoption of the internet —offers the most salient example. The internet has proven to be a transformative technology and, yet, the stock market ’s initial reaction was clearly overly exuberant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

The 2016-17 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 5, 2016 - The budget included $168  billion of state spending, including $123  billion in General Fund spending and $45  billion in special fund spending. The administration ’s January revenue estimates for 2015 –16 and 2016 –17 were up by billions of dollars compared to the prior year ’s budget act.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3487/2

Federal Spending in California

Jan 18, 2017 - In FFY 2013-14, the federal government paid about $45 billion in contracts to private entities in California for the provision of goods and services. Most of these contracts, nearly $34 billion, were procured for goods and services for the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3531/3

The 2016-17 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 5, 2016 - The budget provides one –time funding of $45  million for temporary housing assistance for homeless individuals. While the June 2016 budget passage set aside $400  million for affordable housing programs, this funding was contingent on changes to state law to streamline local approval processes of certain multifamily housing projects that contain affordable housing units.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3487/1