California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - After the dot-com bust and the Great Recession, it took four and five years, respectively, for revenues to recover. Incorporating revenue risk into the budget now, therefore, reflects prudence, not pessimism.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 5, 2020 - As a condition of receiving the funding, counties must show that they are in com pliance with state and federal public health requirements. Budget Provides $600   Million for Project Homekey and Related Services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4263

The 2018-19 Budget: California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 2, 2018 - These trends are primarily due to the estimated impact of Proposition  57 (2016), which made all nonviolent offenders eligible for release consideration, expanded CDCR ’s authority to award sentencing credits to inmates, and requires that judges decide in all cases whether juveniles should be tried in adult court.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3870/11

The 2022-23 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor's May Revision

May 16, 2022 - Reflecting these unprecedented collections, the May Revision assumes revenues (excluding Budget Stabilization Account [BSA] transfers) will be $57  billion higher than the Governor ’s budget over the budget window.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4598

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - For California, the dot ‑com era —when stocks rose and then fell precipitously in response to widespread adoption of the internet —offers the most salient example. The internet has proven to be a transformative technology and, yet, the stock market ’s initial reaction was clearly overly exuberant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - In addition, the budget includes a one ‑time $11  million General Fund augmentation  to assist counties with a temporary increase in the population supervised by county probation departments due to the release of prison inmates as a result of Proposition  57.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/11

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Nov 8, 2023 - Additionally, Chapter  57 specifies that transportation funding is presumed to provide adequate funding for the long-term maintenance of a habitat connectivity or wildlife corridor structure on the state highway system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4814

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - The 2017 ‑18 budget provides $57  million to fund the RMR rate increases initiated January  1, 2017 and $41  million for the RMR increases starting January  1, 2018. Slots Funds Additional State Preschool Slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/4

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - The spending plan includes $226.1  million and 57  positions from Proposition  56 (tobacco tax) revenues to implement the provisions of Proposition  56 related to DPH programs, as follows: $181.1  million for the Tobacco Control Branch to fund media campaigns, provide grants to local health departments and other organizations, and conduct program evaluation in an effort to
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/6

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan

Oct 12, 2022 - The spending plan provides $88.3  million General Fund (of which $57 million is for direct assistance to counties) to the Department of Health Care Services, the California Health and Human Services Agency, and the Judicial Branch for the implementation of the CARE Act in 2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4616