The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Additional Compliance and Enforcement Funding. In addition to the funding shift, the budget provides $2.3  million from the CCF (generally increasing to $4  million by 2028-29 and ongoing) largely to support more routine inspections of licensees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - The goals of the outreach effort are to (1)  improve labor law compliance among individuals and families who employ domestic workers in their home and (2)  increase domestic workers ’ awareness of their employment protections under state law and how to recover unpaid wages from their employer if labor law violations occur.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - Counties found to be out of compliance could be provided with technical assistance to make the changes or risk losing SB  678 grant awards. The BSCC budget would have to increase to account for its new duties related to the grant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - Under CDCR regulations, people are not supposed to stay in MHCBs for more than ten days. The annual cost of opera ting each MHCB is around $400, 000 —including custody staff. Currently, there are 392 MHCBs at men ’s prisons and 41 MHCBs at women ’s prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - As part of his January budget proposal, the Governor proposed legislation to change the name of DBO and broaden the department ’s authority in various ways, such as by allowing it to regulate certain financial products and services that are not currently regulated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - Absent the suspensions, the budget would face an operating deficit in 2023 ‑ 24 o f nearly $ 2  b illion Large Operating Deficits Could Emerge Depending on Recently Proposed Federal Regulations. In late 2019, the federal government released draft regulations with significant implications for state General Fund costs related to the Medi ‑Cal program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

Ten Years Later: Progress Towards Expending the 2006 Bond Funds

Jan 3, 2017 - It can also take longer to expend bond funds for new programs that require the adoption of new statutory guidance or regulations. For example, much of the Proposition  1C housing bonds that remain are for the Housing-Related Parks Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3519

Evaluating California's Pursuit of Zero Net Energy State Buildings

Nov 14, 2017 - As long as GHG emissions are accurately measured and the regulation is adequately enforced, the number of emissions cannot exceed the cap. Allowance Price Provides Incentive for Cost ‑Effective Emissions Reductions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3711

The 2019-20 Budget: Deferred Maintenance

Feb 8, 2019 - For example, some departments have included projects as deferred maintenance that are not traditionally considered as such —for example, energy and water efficiency upgrades and code compliance work.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3929