The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 16, 2025 - Starting in 2026-27, the legislation establishes fixed annual amounts of $400  million for TIRCP and $200  million for LCTOP. (To the extent that GGRF revenues are insufficient to fully cover the statutory amounts designated for continuous appropriations, funding for TIRCP, LCTOP, and other specified programs will be reduced proportionally.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5077

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals [Publication Details]

Mar 6, 2026 - In this post, we assess the Governor's California Highway Patrol budget proposals for (1) equipment and operating costs and (2) capital outlay projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5152

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - As shown in Figure  2, the department ’s uniformed officer vacancy rate including temporary positions, is still well above the pre-pandemic levels. Specifically, while the vacancy rate was 2.8  percent in 2019, it then rose to over 9  percent in 2021, and remained at 6.6  percent as of 2024, per the most recent data available.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2025-26 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 12, 2025 - Clean California Local Grant Program ($400   Million). For competitive grants to local governments for beautification and cleanup projects within public spaces and local right of ways. Beautification projects included infrastructure improvements such as art installations, graffiti removal, and landscaping.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4961

The 2020-21 Budget: Transportation

Feb 10, 2020 - Governor’s Proposal The budget includes $2. 2  m illion on a two ‑year, limited ‑term basis from the SHA to establish the Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety Investigation Program. The proposal would fund 12  t ransportation engineers who are expected to perform a total of 400 i nvestigations of collisions involving pedestrians and bicyclists.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4149

The 2022-23 Budget: Transportation Infrastructure Package

Feb 15, 2022 - Climate Adaptation Programs ($400   Million). The Governor ’s budget includes funding for (1)  Caltrans to plan and implement state climate adaptation projects, (2)  CTC to administer a new competitive grant program to implement local climate adaptation projects, and (3)  Caltrans to administer a new competitive program to support local adaptation planning that identifies transportation system vulnerabilities and climate ‑related risks.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4536

The 2017-18 Budget: Transportation Funding Package

Feb 17, 2017 - In 2016 ‑17, Caltrans plans to spend a total of $1.5  billion in state funds for the Highway Maintenance Program —$1.1  billion for minor routine maintenance and about $400  million for major maintenance projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3572

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - The Governor proposes $800  million from the General Fund over two years —$400  million in 2022 ‑23 and 2023 ‑ 24 —to implement various efforts to improve forest health and make communities more resilient to future wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - Specifically, the Governor ’s budget assumes (1)  a $620  million ($230  million General Fund) reduction through the permanent elimination of 6,500 vacant positions and associated funding and (2)  a $1.5  billion ($820  million General Fund) in 2024 ‑25 and $2  billion ($1.2  billion General Fund) in 2025 ‑26 and ongoing reduction to state operations expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - The May Revision includes roughly 400 new proposals. While the surplus is large enough to make significant inroads in addressing a few key policy priorities, it is unlikely sufficient to do so across the number of issues contemplated in the May Revision.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432