The 2026-27 Budget: Cap-and-Invest Expenditure Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - Review Proposed S B   840 Implementation Approach and Statutory Changes to Ensure Consistency With Legislative Intent. We recommend the Legislature carefully review the administration’s proposed approach to implementing SB 840 to ensure that it is consistent with legislative intent and preferences, and make any associated statutory modifications, as relevant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

Overview of New Updates to the Cap-and-Invest Program

Dec 9, 2025 - For example, the new Climate Bureau could serve as a helpful resource to the Legislature, adding valuable capacity to conduct program reviews and evaluations that are independent of the Executive Branch.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5097

The 2025-26 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Reauthorization and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Proposals at May Revision

May 19, 2025 - Based on recent information we have reviewed from HSRA, we estimate this funding gap has grown to roughly $10 billion (assuming the project retains its federal funding and $1 billion annually from GGRF through 2030).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5049

The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan

Feb 12, 2025 - In our review, we did not identify any proposed actions that conflict with bond requirements. Phases in Funding to Account for Administrative Capacity. Based on our initial review, in many cases the Governor proposes to distribute funding across years in a manner that accounts for differing levels of departmental or grantee capacity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4958

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

Mar 18, 2026 - The state added the doubling goal as a narrative water quality objective in the 1995 Bay ‑Delta Plan. Doubling natural production relative to the average annual 1967 ‑1991 baseline would mean nearly 900,000 naturally produced salmon annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Tax Credit Proposal

Feb 24, 2026 - There also are a number of other refiners in the United States that currently produce RD and could, with the purchase of some ad ditional equipment, be converted to produce SAF in addition to, or instead of, RD.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

The 2024-25 Budget: Sustainable Funding for the Department of Pesticide Regulation

Mar 5, 2024 - Consider Adding Accountability Measures. We recommend the Legislature consider adding accountability measures as a way to conduct oversight of programmatic expansions and to ensure that funding is helping DPR meet its core objectives.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4873

The 2024-25 Budget: Flood Management Proposals

Feb 26, 2024 - Given the serious budget challenges this year, we suggest the Legislature apply a high bar to its review of new spending proposals and be very selective in approving any of them. Early Action Repairs Meet That Higher Bar.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4856

Evaluating California's Pursuit of Zero Net Energy State Buildings

Nov 14, 2017 - Notably, for the proposed ZNE projects that we reviewed, six project proposals included estimates of the incremental costs of adding ZNE, and a handful of other projects estimated the cost of adding solar PV alone.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3711

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 During the special session called by the Governor, the Legislature added Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 to the 2024-25 Budget Act providing up to $2.5  billion one-time from the General Fund for response and recovery costs related to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081