The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This is a decrease of $10  million  (6  percent) from the revised 2024-25 level. (This does not reflect some adjustments related to Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12 of the 2024-25 and 2025-26 budgets. Please see the “New and Ongoing Efforts to Achieve Efficiencies” section of our post for more information.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The remaining $12  million will be used to construct spaces for outdoor recreation and programming at SQ. Judicial Branch The budget provides $5.2  billion for the judicial branch in 2024- 25 —a net decrease of $85  million (2  percent) from the revised 2023-24 level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Figure  6 shows that success rates are consistently lower for students in correspondence courses. In fall 2019 (the year just before the pandemic), the gap in success rates between in ‑person and correspondence courses was 15  percentage points.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

Oct 17, 2019 - The agreements with seven bargaining units (Units 2, 6, 9, 10, 12, 16, and 19) are scheduled to expire at the end of 2019-20. Pursuant to the state ’s labor agreements, the 2019-20 budget assumes that most state employees receive a pay increase in 2019-20 of about 3.5  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

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

Jan 13, 2020 - For K ‑ 12 e ducation, the budget includes $1. 2  b illion for the Local Control Funding Formula, which reflects funding for the COLA offset by a 0. 3  p ercent attendance decline. For community colleges, the Governor ’s largest ongoing proposal is $ 199  m illion to cover the COLA and 0. 5  p ercent enrollment growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2020-21 Budget: Debt Service on Infrastructure Bonds

Nov 20, 2019 - As shown in Figure  1, the DSR has varied considerably in past decades between about 3  percent and 6  percent. In the late 2000s, the DSR grew to about 6  percent following the approval of several large bond measures, as well as a significant reduction in state revenues due to the recession.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4118

Debt Service on Infrastructure Bonds

Nov 15, 2017 - As shown in Figure  1, the state ’s DSR has varied considerably in past decades between about 3  percent and 6  percent. In the late 2000s, the DSR grew to about 6  percent as large bond measures were approved and state revenues dropped due to a recession.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3713

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

Feb 28, 2023 - Currently, interest rates for bonds are projected to be about 6  percent to 7  percent in fall 2023. This is significantly higher than recent years, when rates have been less than 5  percent. On the other hand, using cash also means less funding is available to support near-term budget priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - The budget provides $7.6  million General Fund and 12 positions to expand OES ’ staffing of the Cal-CSIC. (An additional $3.5  million General Fund is provided to support other departments ’ participation in the Cal-CSIC.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277

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

Jan 14, 2019 - The Governor ’s budget includes an increase of $ 540   m illion ongoing General Fund for the universities —$ 300   m illion (7. 6   p ercent) for CSU and $ 240   m illion (6. 9   p ercent) for UC. Whereas the previous Governor favored giving the universities unrestricted increases and allowing them to determine funding priorities, the new administration takes a different approach by itemizing proposed funding increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916