The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2025 - Figure 2 263 409 a Includes the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and general obligation bond debt service. Note: Totals may not add due to rounding. CalRecycle = California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The 2025-26 budget package assumes ongoing savings of $489.8  million ($182.3  million General Fund) (see Attachment 3 of the May 14, 2025 DOF letter) resulting from the permanent elimination of 6,002 vacant positions beginning in 2025-26 (see Attachment 4 of the May 14, 2025 DOF letter).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - The proposal also includes funding for 14 new positions at three departments —eight at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), five at the State Coastal Conservancy (SCC), and one at the Sierra Nevada Conservancy —to support the administration of their bond programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5115

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2023 - As shown in Figure  3, the budget package maintains $9.2  billion of this funding (92  percent), primarily through using GGRF revenues in place of some planned General Fund. Specifically, the spending plan shifts a total of $2.3  billion in intended ZEV expenditures to GGRF through 2026 ‑27 —achieving a like amount of General Fund savings —including $720  million in 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4807

The 2018-19 Budget: California Department of Food and Agriculture

Mar 28, 2018 - Similarly, between 2014 and 2017 the number of square miles under quarantine for HLB increased more than six-fold, from 92 to 617, and the number of trees identified as infected with HLB grew from 1 to 302.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3793

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Elimination of State Environmental Positions

Feb 17, 2026 - (The remaining residual positions span across 14 non-environmental departments, with most at the Department of Industrial Relations and Department of Veterans Affairs.) Figure 2 JLBC Did Not Concur With Elimination of 349 Environmental Positions Department Residual Positions Subject to Legislative Review Position Eliminations With Which JLBC Did Not Concur Departmental
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5124

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

Feb 10, 2026 - In 2026 ‑27, for example, under this approach roughly $1.75  billion is available for discretionary purposes prior to funding Tier 3 programs, of which the administration proposes to spend about $1.6  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

The 2026-27 Budget: Framework for Approaching the Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, and Agriculture Budget

Feb 10, 2026 - The  budget proposes $14  million one time from the General Fund for required habitat mitigation projects associated with Sacramento ‑San Joaquin Delta levee projects. State law requires mitigation when a project disturbs or destroys habitat.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116

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

Mar 18, 2026 - Estimated implementation costs for habitat projects and water purchases total about $3  billion and would be shared by the state (paying about half), water users, the federal government, and the CVP.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 10, 2022 - The department ’s total funding level is a net decrease of $92  million, or 21  percent, from the estimated 2021-22 level. This decrease is primarily due to several one-time appropriations in 2021-22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4633