The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This amount reflects the remainder of the original $68  million that the 2022-23 Budget Act provided for this initiative. The 2025-26 Budget Act shifts the initiative from the State Library to DGS, with the intent to expedite its administration.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2016-17 Budget: Governor’s General Fund Deferred Maintenance Proposal

Feb 12, 2016 - Meanwhile, the identified deferred maintenance need at CalFire declined by over $100   million —from $126  million to $18   million —when only $2  million was provided to address the department ’s backlog in the 2015 –16 Budget Act .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3353

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

Feb 25, 2025 - The current ‑year net increase in costs is primarily due to both a higher total prison population and an increase in the portion of the population with high health care needs relative to what was assumed in the 2024 ‑25  Budget Act .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 26, 2025 - However, Proposition  36 only affects a subset of those cases, such as by allowing multiple acts of misdemeanor theft to be prosecuted as a felony if the combined dollar amount exceeds $950. …Causing Proposition  47 Savings to Be Likely Underestimated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Apr 11, 2025 - The most recent modification to the formula occurred in 2015-16. (Hereafter, we refer to this version as the modified formula.) The modified formula was put on hold in 2021-22 through 2024-25, again due to concerns that other factors —such as the COVID-19 pandemic —would cause awards to artificially fluctuate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

May 15, 2018 - Recent experience with the administration of the deferred maintenance funds provided in 2015 ‑16 and 2016 ‑17 highlights the challenges for legislative oversight inherent in this process. For example, in late 2017, the administration notified JLBC that the Department of Fish and Wildlife had changed more than three-quarters of the projects they identified to be supported by funds
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3841

The 2015-16 Budget: Effectively Implementing the 2014 Water Bond [Publication Details]

Feb 11, 2015 - The 2015-16 Budget: Effectively Implementing the 2014 Water Bond [Publication Details] The 2015-16 Budget: Effectively Implementing the 2014 Water Bond Format: HTML Description: In August 2014, the Legislature approved Chapter 188, Statutes of 2014 (AB 1471, Rendon), which placed before the voters a water bond measure primarily aimed at increasing the supply of clean, safe, and reliable water and restoring habitat.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3171

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The budget package also includes the following notable changes: $5  million one-time General Fund for use over five years (1)  to coordinate and assist local and tribal law enforcement agencies in the identification and investigation of missing and murdered indigenous individuals and (2)  for DOJ to act as a liaison between tribal governments, families, and other law enforcement agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2015-16 Budget: The Governor’s General Fund Deferred Maintenance Proposal [Publication Details]

Feb 9, 2015 - The 2015-16 Budget: The Governor’s General Fund Deferred Maintenance Proposal [Publication Details] The 2015-16 Budget: The Governor’s General Fund Deferred Maintenance Proposal Format: HTML Description: The Governor’s budget proposes $125 million from the General Fund to address deferred maintenance backlogs in state facilities managed by various departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3169

The 2016-17 Budget: Review of UC’s Merced Campus Expansion Proposal

Feb 10, 2016 - In summer 2015, UC enrolled 19  percent of the number of FTE students it enrolled during its other terms. As part of its May 2015 agreement with the Governor, UC plans to experiment with different pricing models at three campuses in summer 2016 to encourage more students to enroll during that term.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3349