The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Proposals

Mar 19, 2026 - For example, the proposal to provide $219,000 in 2026-27 and 2027-28 to update CEQA exemption guidance for sustainable transportation projects pursuant to Chapter  742 of 2025 (SB  71, Wiener) matches the estimates from the Assembly Appropriations Committee analysis published when the legislation passed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

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

Feb 10, 2026 - (We provide additional analysis of this proposal in our companion report, The 2026‑27 Budget: Framework for Approaching the Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, and Agriculture Budget . We also plan to discuss CPUC’s AB 1207 implementation proposal—also funded from the GGRF state operations category—in our publication, The 2026‑27 Budget: California Public Utilities Commission’s Implementation of AB 1207 .)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

The 2025-26 Budget: May Revision Trailer Bill Proposals on the Delta Conveyance Project and Water Quality Control Plans

May 27, 2025 - SWRCB indicates that under its proposal, WQCPs and the processes to implement them still would continue to undergo environmental review and analysis. Additionally, SWRCB argues that the full CEQA analysis does not add a significant additional benefit beyond the extensive data collection, environmental analysis, and public participation already required by the Porter-Cologne Wa ter Quality Control Act.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5053

Expanding Access to Safe and Affordable Drinking Water in California—A Status Update

Nov 10, 2020 - A separate analysis of water quality data in the San Joaquin Valley found that community water systems serving predominantly socioeconomically disadvantaged communities had both higher levels of arsenic and higher odds of violating water quality standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4294

The 2020-21 Budget: Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 25, 2020 - Moreover, helping to ensure greater local compliance with the act ’s requirements will lessen the odds that the state has to assume what likely would be significant costs to take over management of noncompliant basins.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4178

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - State law further requires our office to analyze any new mandates identified by CSM as a part of our annual analysis of the state budget. In particular, state law directs our office to report on the annual state costs for new mandates and make recommendations to the Legislature as to whether the new mandate should be repealed (permanently eliminating it or making it optional), suspended (rendering it inoperative for one year), modified, or funded in the annual Budget Act.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2025-26 Budget: Various California Air Resources Board Proposals

Feb 24, 2025 - However, the analysis also noted that shifting to E15 could result in a loss of fuel economy of roughly 1  percent, that fueling equipment and some vehicles may lack the capability of operating with E15, and that more analysis is necessary to understand the pollution  impacts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4980

The 2022-23 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Revenue Update

Apr 29, 2022 - Overall, our revenue projections are roughly the same as our January analysis, although recent auction results and relatively stable prices over the last few months have reduced some of the downside risk.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4591

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

May 5, 2025 - State law further requires our office to analyze any new mandates identified by the C ommission as a part of our annual analysis of the state budget. In particular, state law directs our office to report on the annual state costs for new mandates and make recommendations to the Legislature as to whether the new mandate should be repealed (permanently eliminating it or making it optional), suspended (rendering it inoperative for one year), modified, or funded.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

Feb 27, 2024 - This approach was adopted to provide DTSC with additional time to conduct a more in ‑depth analysis of the revenue shortfalls and to identify a potential solution. The  department was authorized to use a small portion of the loans to support this analysis and to improve fee administration and data collection.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4858