The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget includes $100  million one-time General Fund to backfill anticipated reductions in federal VOCA funding. This amount is similar to the amount provided in 2024-25 ($103  million). These funds support various OES victim grant programs and are intended to allow existing programs to maintain current service levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Specifically, at a $3.6  million annual cost for SQRC alone, this additional staffing could cost around $100  million annually to implement statewide —particularly notable given the multiyear deficits facing the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - As shown in the figure, the prison population is projected to decrease by about 3,400 (4  percent) from 94,200 in 2023-24 to 90,900 in 2024-25. The parole population is projected to remain roughly the same at around 35,600.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Of these students, 418 (2.7  percent) had already earned 100 or more CCC units. Just over 100 of these students had already accumulated 150 or more units. Furthermore, of the 15,500  incarcerated CCC students enrolled in 2022 ‑23, 905 (5.8  percent) already had earned an associate degree in a prior year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

Jan 14, 2019 - Figure 4 Summary of Governor ’s Disaster ‑Related Proposals for 2019 ‑20 ( In Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

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

Jan 13, 2020 - While these proposals include some larger amounts, 95  p ercent of them —accounting for half of proposed spending —cost less than $ 100  m illion in 2020 ‑21. Put simply, the Governor ’s budget aims to address a large array of proposals, across many issue areas, with relatively small dollar amounts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2020-21 Budget: Debt Service on Infrastructure Bonds

Nov 20, 2019 - We estimate that the DSR will fall below 4  percent over the next several years. This is because we project that General Fund revenues will increase somewhat faster than debt service costs. We assume that the state gradually sells bonds that have been approved by voters or the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4118

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

Feb 11, 2015 - On November 4, 2014, voters approved the water bond measure—Proposition 1. In this report, we (1) describe Proposition 1, (2) review the Governor’s proposals to implement the bond, (3) identify key implementation principles, and (4) recommend steps for the Legislature to ensure that the bond is implemented effectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3171

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

May 15, 2018 - In addition, in contrast to proposals for many other departments, we find that the Governor ’s proposal to provide $100  million for deferred maintenance on the state ’s flood infrastructure is consistent with the conditions noted above that spending be targeted towards projects that are well justified, high priority, and clearly defined.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3841