The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - There are a handful of differences in our estimates, but these changes are small enough on net that they do not substantively change our assessment of the budget condition. Specifically, the administration has higher revenue estimates than our office, but these are mostly offset by their higher spending estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Transportation

Dec 21, 2018 - On the one hand, the GHG reduction benefits estimated may be understated because they assume that those benefits are achieved for only the first couple of years of the vehicle ’s life, rather than for the full life of the vehicle.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3912

The 2023-24 Budget: Proposed Fund Shift for CHP and DMV Capital Projects

Feb 27, 2023 - On the other hand, one benefit of using cash is that, compared to bonds, it results in a lower overall project cost because the state does not have to pay interest. Administration Has Not Identified a Funding Source for the Repayment of Bonds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4710

A Review of Caltrans’ Vehicle Insurance Costs

Dec 5, 2017 - The increase appears to be related to a handful of severe collisions for which Caltrans employees were at fault. These collisions resulted in extraordinarily large payments to the injured parties of several millions of dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3721

The 2017-18 Budget: Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)

Feb 22, 2017 - On the other hand, it is possible that the population eligible for AB 60 licenses could increase, such as to the extent immigrants from other states relocate to California. It is also unclear whether federal immigration policy changes would result in more or fewer eligible California residents applying for an AB 60 license.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3575

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - On the other hand, the proposal to provide $1.5  billion for college and career pathways appears to have similar goals as several existing programs. We recommend the Legislature avoid creating a new program until it receives evidence that these existing programs are insufficient to support college and career pathways in the targeted areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

The 2018-19 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 8, 2018 - Caltrans ’ premium more than tripled from 2014 ‑ 15 t o 2017 ‑18, growing from $4. 2  m illion to $14. 6  m illion, due to a handful of exceptionally costly claims. The department ’s ongoing base budget to pay for claims is $4. 2  m illion, though it received a one ‑time augmentation of $5. 1  m illion in 2017 ‑18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3745

The 2019-20 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 26, 2019 - . $ 15  m illion General Fund to replace laptops and hand ‑held citation devices with 3, 075 m ultifunction tablets that will allow officers to use a single device for electronic citations, and provide full access to departmental software applications for filing reports and other purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3948