The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget package provides a blanket exemption for settlements related to any wildfire occurring between tax years 2021 and 2029. Previously, state law provided income tax exemptions for wildfire settlements on a case-by-case basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - The administration ’s proposal to measure county performance against baselines using failure-to-prison rates from 2021 through 2023 has a key drawback. Specifically, including 2021 data is problematic because failure-to-prison rates during 2021 were artificially low due to factors related to the COVID-19 pandemic rather than county performance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Figure  7 shows persistence rates for several cohorts that started their CCC education at CDCR. On average, incarcerated students have notably lower persistence rates compared with the average for CCC students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - Additionally, Chapter  359 increases the fees paid by certain DCA licensees to support CURES from $6 to $11 for a two-year period —April 1, 2021 through April 2, 2023. After this period, the fee for each licensee would be $9 on an ongoing basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277

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

Jan 13, 2020 - The 2019 ‑ 20 b udget package made a number of ongoing program augmentations subject to suspension on December 31, 2021 i f the budget did not collect sufficient revenues to fund them. Our office estimated the full ‑year savings —in 2022 ‑ 23 —of suspending these expenditures was $1. 7  b illion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

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

Jan 14, 2019 - The funding is to be the first of three augmentations, with the intent to provide a total of 30,000 additional slots to serve all low ‑income four ‑year olds by 2021 ‑22. These slots would be on top of the almost 9,000 full ‑day slots the state added over the past three years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - This includes the reversion of $8  million in unspent funds from 2023-24 for the implementation of the peace officer certification program created by Chapter  409 of 2021 (SB  2, Bradford and Atkins).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2023-24 Budget: Financing Approaches for Capital Outlay Projects

Feb 28, 2023 - Taxable bonds are projected to have about 7  percent interest rates in fall 2023 —or 1.35  percent higher than tax-exempt bonds. As a result, the annual debt service savings on these taxable bonds is about $5  million more than tax-exempt bonds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

Implementing AB 900's Prison Construction and Rehabilitation Initiatives [Publication Details]

May 14, 2009 - Implementing AB 900's Prison Construction and Rehabilitation Initiatives [Publication Details] Implementing AB 900's Prison Construction and Rehabilitation Initiatives Format: HTML Description: We examine the steps that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has taken to implement Chapter 7, Statutes of 2007 (AB 900, Solorio) which authorized a total
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2063

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - Budget-related legislation (Chapter  24, Statutes of 2019 ( SB 83, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review )) also instructs the administration to develop a proposal, by 2021-22, to (1) increase the duration of paid family leave to six months, meaning 12 weeks for each parent or caregiver, and (2) increase the wage replacement rate from 70 percent to 90 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101