The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Dolly Parton ’s Imagination Library. The budget includes an estimated $39  million one-time General Fund for Dolly Parton ’s Imagination Library. This amount reflects the remainder of the original $68  million that the 2022-23 Budget Act provided for this initiative.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2020-21 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 12, 2020 - George, Elihu Harris, and Ronald Reagan buildings) and $23.6 million is for fire alarm systems at five state facilities (the Edmund Brown, Van Nuys, Justice, Library and Courts II, and Franchise Tax Board Campus buildings).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4157

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 20, 2018 - DGS indicates the estimated costs largely are based on the construction component of the renovation of the Library and Courts Building, a historic building that was comprehensively restored in 2013. However, the total cost of the two proposed renovations is actually about 50  percent higher on a square footage basis than the costs for the Library and Courts Building.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3758

The 2022-23 Budget: Office of Planning and Research Budget Proposals

Feb 9, 2022 - Beyond awarding grants for new online courses, state law allows CELL to undertake other actions to support instructional best practices, such as supporting faculty professional deve lopment and developing a “best of ” library of online materials.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4523

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - Based on our review of proclamations published on the Governors ’, OES ’, and the California State Library ’s websites, Governors have proclaimed 295 states of emergency from the beginning of Governor Schwarzenegger ’s term in November 2003 through December 2024, as shown in Figure  1 .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029