The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - In a 2010 report , SWRCB concluded that “current flows are insufficient.” The report also acknowledged the need for non‑flow habitat improvements, noting that flow and physical habitat measures are not interchangeable.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight [Publication Details]

Mar 18, 2026 - This report discusses the State Water Resources Control Board’s (SWRCB’s) proposed—and long-overdue—update of the water quality control plan for the San Francisco Bay-Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which includes an alternative compliance pathway for certain water users called voluntary agreements (VAs, also known as Healthy Rivers and Landscapes).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5163

The 2025-26 Budget: May Revision Trailer Bill Proposals on the Delta Conveyance Project and Water Quality Control Plans

May 27, 2025 - By do ing so, this draft plan provides two compliance pathways —one for VA parties based on their proposed VA instream flow and habitat restoration targets, and one for non-VA parties based on the unimpaired flows approach developed by SWRCB staff.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5053

The 2024-25 Budget: Transportation Budget Solutions

Feb 23, 2024 - Cash Flow Adjustments Avoid Programmatic Impacts but Create Cost Pressures in Future Years. The proposed $2.8  billion in cash flow adjustments would help alleviate cost pressures in the near term by reducing General Fund commitments in 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4854

2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: California's Cash Flow Crisis

How State Cash Flows Work in a Typical Fiscal Year In this section, we discuss how the state ’s General Fund cash flows are managed in a typical year. We use the 2007 –08 cash flows as an example because they demonstrate how state cash flows work in a typical year —prior to the extreme cash flow distress that has emerged in the current 2008 –09 fiscal year.
https://lao.ca.gov/2009/stadm/cash_flow/cash_flow_011409.aspx

^[PDF] California’s Cash Flow Crisis: May 2009 Update

HISTORY OF THE STATE’S RECENT CASH FLOW PROBLEMS State Must Borrow for Cash Flow Purposes Every Year. In California’s Cash Flow Crisis, we discussed the basic dynamics of the state’s General Fund cash flows.
https://lao.ca.gov/2009/stadm/cash_flow_update/cash_flow_update_050709.pdf

California's Cash Flow Crisis: May 2009 Update

The possibility of federal assistance for the state ’s cash flow challenges. History of the State ’s Recent Cash Flow Problems State Must Borrow for Cash Flow Purposes Every Year. In California’s Cash Flow Crisis , we discussed the basic dynamics of the state’s General Fund cash flows.
https://lao.ca.gov/2009/stadm/cash_flow_update/cash_flow_update_050709.aspx

The 2022-23 Budget: State Water Resources Control Board—Bay-Delta Plan Update

Jan 31, 2022 - Specifically, to improve conditions for fish and wildlife, the new flow standards call for 40  percent of unimpaired flow in the rivers. The required flows can be adjusted within a range of 30  percent to 50  percent between February and June depending on other actions and conditions in the fisheries.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4506

California’s Cash Flow Crisis: May 2009 Update [Publication Details]

May 7, 2009 - California’s Cash Flow Crisis: May 2009 Update [Publication Details] Video Description: In part because state revenue collections have been weaker than expected since passage of the February budget package, major cash flow difficulties loom for California in the summer and fall of 2009.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2056

The 2026-27 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 19, 2025 - Whereas a deferral provides up ‑front state savings but creates future costs and weakens district cash flow, the advance payment is an up ‑front state cost that allows future savings and improves district cash flow.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093