The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government

Oct 22, 2025 - With this appropriation, General Fund support for this initiative since 2021-22 totals nearly $1  billion. The purpose of ERF is to help local communities address homeless encampments by funding housing and other services to the people living there.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

SB 1 Has Doubled Major Source of State Funding for Local Streets and Roads

Jan 24, 2020 - Inflationary adjustments for all fuel excise taxes —both those previously existing and those added under SB   1 —will begin July 1, 2020. The legislation created two new vehicle fees: (1)  a transportation improvement fee and (2)  a road improvement fee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4142

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Program Currently Is in Its Fourth Year of Funding … Figure  2 shows that, after an initial General Fund appropriation of $50  million in 2021-22, the Legislature has provided one-time amounts for ERF each year since.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - The 2024-25 amount includes $1.2  million one time for the initial claiming period between the second half of 2020-21 and 2021-22. It also includes $1  million General Fund to support such costs in the budget year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 9, 2022 - Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program 2021 ‑22 Budget Established Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BH‑CIP). The 2021‑22 budget package included $755.7 million in 2021‑22, $1.4 billion in 2022‑23, and $2.1 million in 2023‑24 to establish BH‑CIP.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - Budget related legislation would preserve affordable HCD ‑funded multifamily rental projects at risk of converting to market ‑rate within the next ten years, beyond the five years authorized for the 2021 ‑22 funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

Sheriff Court-Security Services Mandate

May 27, 2016 - Currently, the mandate backlog is roughly $1  billion. This mandate would add slightly to the existing backlog. When considering payment in the future, the Legislature would need to consider in what order it would like to pay down these existing obligations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3478

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - Maintains Mandate From January 1, 2018 Forward. Because the Governor ’s proposed suspension would only concern the historic time period in question, the permit requirements would remain in effect as of January 1, 2018 and until the regional board adopts a new permit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - Maintains Mandates From January 1, 2018 Forward. Because the Governor ’s proposed suspensions would only concern the historic time periods in question, the permit requirements mandated by the state would remain in effect as of January 1, 2018 and until each regional board adopts a new permit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - The state budget has provided $227  million from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for LIWP since 2014, and the 2021 ‑22 budget package committed an additional $75  million total from the General Fund through 2024 (with $25  million in 2021 ‑22 dedicated exclusively to the farmworker housing component).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584