The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 16, 2025 - All augmentations shall be authorized no sooner than 30 days after written notification to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. Budget Does Not Include Previously Planned GGRF for Highways to Boulevards Pilot Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5077

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals [Publication Details]

Mar 6, 2026 - In this post, we assess the Governor's California Highway Patrol budget proposals for (1) equipment and operating costs and (2) capital outlay projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5152

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - As shown in Figure  2, the department ’s uniformed officer vacancy rate including temporary positions, is still well above the pre-pandemic levels. Specifically, while the vacancy rate was 2.8  percent in 2019, it then rose to over 9  percent in 2021, and remained at 6.6  percent as of 2024, per the most recent data available.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2025-26 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 12, 2025 - However, this would not be sufficient on its own to address the fund condition and would lead to increased cost pressures in the near future because the principal and interest for the loan still would need to be repaid by June 30, 2030.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4961

The 2024-25 Budget: Establishing the Office of the Inspector General for the High-Speed Rail Authority

Feb 8, 2024 - The package also included budget bill language that allows the Department of Finance (DOF) to approve an additional midyear augmentation of up to $1  million no sooner than 30 days after notifying JLBC.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4833

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 16, 2023 - First, it provides $4.5  million annually from the General Fund from 2023-24 through 2025-26 for Caltrans to continue and expand its encampment coordinator team to 30 positions. (This team was initiated when the department received $2.7  million from the General Fund in both 2021-22 and 2022-23 for 20 positions.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4804

Review of High-Speed Rail Draft 2016 Business Plan

Mar 17, 2016 - The major features of the draft plan are summarized in Figure  2 and discussed below. Figure 2 Major Features of Draft 2016 High –Speed Rail Business Plan Changes Initial Operating Segment (IOS) From South to North.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3394

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Sep 29, 2022 - This prohibition is in effect until the Merced-to-Bakersfield segment is fully funded or through June 30, 2030, whichever occurs sooner. Limiting the use of the $4.2  billion Proposition  1A appropriation to the Merced-to-Bakersfield segment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4628

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Transportation

Oct 17, 2019 - Additionally, the budget authorizes the Director of the Department of Finance to augment the level of funding provided to DMV —following a 30-day notification to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee —in order to further reduce customer wait times at DMV field offices or to prevent these wait times from increasing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4098

The 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - Specifically, the proposed package consists of (1) $1.2 billion for the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA) to fund port, freight, and goods movement infrastructure; (2) $110 million for the California Workforce Development Board (CWDB) to establish a goods movement workforce training campus; (3) $40 million for the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to increase
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540