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 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