The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - However, the administration maintains that local governments could have raised local fees to cover their costs during that time frame and therefore proposes suspending the requirements for that period and n ot reimbursing them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2024-25 Budget: Insolvency Risks for Environmental and Transportation Special Funds

Feb 27, 2024 - Moreover, other special funds with surpluses that the state might ot herwise use to support a struggling special fund likely will face calls to instead assist the General Fund condition. For example, in 2023 ‑24 the budget authorized a loan from the Beverage Container Recycling Fund to HWCA to evade its insolvency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4858