The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 During the special session called by the Governor, the Legislature added Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 to the 2024-25 Budget Act providing up to $2.5  billion one-time from the General Fund for response and recovery costs related to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 25, 2025 - As discussed above, the California Model project and implementation team —and the administration more broadly —is still in the process of reviewing the San Quentin advisory council ’s recommendations to determine which ones it will pursue.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Evaluating California's Pursuit of Zero Net Energy State Buildings

Nov 14, 2017 - Notably, for the proposed ZNE projects that we reviewed, six project proposals included estimates of the incremental costs of adding ZNE, and a handful of other projects estimated the cost of adding solar PV alone.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3711

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Students have access to research databases, e ‑journals, magazine subscriptions, peer ‑reviewed articles, and e ‑books that can be used to complete course  assignments. New Federal Policy Resumes Pell Grants for Eligible Incarcerated Students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—Deferred Maintenance

May 15, 2018 - We note that based on our initial review of these lists —as in past years —they include a number of projects that are typically not considered deferred maintenance —such as energy efficiency upgrades, electric vehicle charging stations, and replacement of modular office equipment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3841

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - New In-Custody Death Review Division. The budget provides $3.3  million General Fund in 2024-25 (increasing to $7.7  million in 2025-26 and ongoing) for BSCC to establish a new division that will review investigations of deaths that occur in local correctional facilities and make recommendations to such facilities as required by Chapter  306 of 2023 (SB  519, Atkins).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 20, 2018 - Ad ditionally, the proposed project includes retail and extra child care space, which also increase costs. DGS also states that the BOE estimate was not as fully developed as its estimate for the Richards Boulevard project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3758

The Administration’s Sacramento Office Building Construction Strategy: Ensuring Robust Oversight

Dec 14, 2016 - First, the notification process through the JLBC provides the Legislature with significantly less time to review proposed projects than the approval process through the traditional capital outlay process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3516

The 2016-17 Budget: The Governor's State Office Building Proposal

Feb 9, 2016 - We find that the concept of addressing state office buildings as part of a larger plan and strategy —rather than on an ad hoc basis —makes sense. However, the proposal provides very little information on the Governor ’s larger plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3347

Ten Years Later: Progress Towards Expending the 2006 Bond Funds

Jan 3, 2017 - Coordination with nonstate entities —such as federal or local governments —can make projects more complicated to complete, adding several years to project timelines in some cases. Challenges include requirements to acquire permits from multiple agencies and gaining funding commitments from other entities to share in project costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3519