The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Next Generation 911 System Augmentations. The budget includes provisional language authorizing the Department of Finance to augment State Emergency Telephone Number Account fund expenditure authority by amounts “necessary to continue implementation of the Next Generation 9-1-1 system, including transition from the legacy 9-1-1 system, ” subject to 30-day legislative notification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 25, 2025 - California Model Project and Implementation Team and Advisory Council Leadership Working to Identify Next Steps for SQRC. The  California  Model project and implementation team reports that it is currently working with leaders of the San Quentin advisory council to review each of the advisory council ’s recommendations and identify those that have already been implemented and those that will be pursued in the future.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

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

Jan 14, 2019 - Note: Excludes spending on  K ‑14  education, reserves, and debt (required by the California Constitution), and added costs to maintain existing policies. Figure also excludes some smaller spending proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

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

Apr 11, 2025 - Because carrying out the steps above will take time, we recommend, for at least two years, providing the maintenance payment as proposed by the Governor, with the simple modifications we describe in the next section.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Given that the results of the recommended data and studies have the potential to notably improve legislative decision ‑making on prison postsecondary education policy and programs moving forward, we believe the added administrative workload is warranted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

Evaluating California's Pursuit of Zero Net Energy State Buildings

Nov 14, 2017 - For example, the Lottery estimated that adding ZNE to its completed Santa Fe Springs District Office added 17  p ercent to the cost of constructing the project. Additionally, the DMV estimated that the cost of adding ZNE to its planned Reedley Field Office facility is expected to add 29  p ercent to the building ’s construction costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3711

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

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

Feb 28, 2023 - For example, at projected interest rates in fall 2023, the Governor ’s proposal to use $491  million cash for certain capital outlay projects avoids about $42  million in annual debt service payments over the next 25 years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

The 2020-21 Budget: Debt Service on Infrastructure Bonds

Nov 20, 2019 - We estimate that the DSR will fall below 4  percent over the next several years. This is because we project that General Fund revenues will increase somewhat faster than debt service costs. We assume that the state gradually sells bonds that have been approved by voters or the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4118