The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget includes $260  million —$91.5  million General Fund and $168.5  million in lease revenue bonds —for CalFire capital outlay projects in 2025-26, of which $163  million is newly approved and $97  million was approved as part of previous budget agreements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Chapter  97 of 2025 (SB  280, Cervantes) called a statewide special election on November 4, 2025, for voters to consider Proposition 50 . Chapter 115 (SB 162, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) appropriated from the General Fund an unspecified amount to county elections officials and the Secretary of State for the “actual and reasonably necessary costs, as determined by the Director of Finance,” to conduct the election.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - Its internal committees acted in January to recommend Judicial Council restore the funding by revising the $97  million reduction downward to a $55  million reduction. This revised reduction was recommended to be allocated to the trial courts using the workload formula and methodology that was used for the $97  million reduction.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

Frequently Asked Questions About Wildfires in California

Jan 28, 2025 - . $97 million in 2022 ‑23 and $85 million and 455 positions ongoing thereafter to increase firefighter staffing levels. CalFire —Relief  Staffing.  $86 million ongoing starting in 2020 ‑21 to support additional firefighting positions and fire response surge capacity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4952

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - With these reductions, the spending plan provides about $97  million for ESE in 2024-25. Additionally, the spending plan adopts trailer bill language that requires the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) to include data on ESE employers by county and ESE participant outcomes after program exit in its annual CalWORKs summary (to the extent data are available and reportable).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/2

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The budget includes a $97  million ongoing General Fund reduction in baseline support for trial court operations. (This reduction is consistent with —though separate from —the plan to reduce General Fund state operations spending by up to 7.95  percent on an ongoing basis statewide.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan

Sep 6, 2024 - . $97  million in ongoing reductions to trial court operations funding. $93  million in one ‑time reductions to Governor ’s Office of Emergency Services grant programs. This includes (1) $45  million from the Prepare California community hardening grant program, (2) $21  million from a gun buyback program, (3) $15  million from the Seismic Retrofitting Program for Soft Story
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4922

The 2024-25 Budget: Preliminary May Revision Analysis for Child Welfare

May 24, 2024 - Passing only what is necessary this year would allow more time for the remaining stakeholder questions and policy issues to be worked out and give the Legislature the chance to assess whether the rates structure is in line with its vision for permanent CC R rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4909

Update on Student Housing Assistance

May 7, 2024 - Of the 342  students, CSU reports 162  students (47  percent) remained enrolled in school at the end of the second year, and 97 students (28  percent) had graduated. The remaining 83 students (24  percent) were no longer participating in the rapid rehousing program, and it is not known whether they remained enrolled in school or had dropped out.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4898

The 2024-25 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 22, 2024 - For  example,  the 2023 ‑24 Budget Act provided $97  million one ‑time from the General Fund for CDCR ’s COVID ‑19 response, of which the department estimates it will spend about  $54  million. Governor’s Proposal $38  Million Ongoing for COVID ‑19 Health Care Costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852