The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This decrease is largely due to the expiration of limited term funding provided in prior years. We identify some of the major actions taken in the 2025-26 budget process below. Dolly Parton ’s Imagination Library.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2016-17 Budget: The Governor's State Office Building Proposal

Feb 9, 2016 - Instead, the only information provided to the Legislature to date is a table in the 2016 Five –Year Infrastructure Plan that lists the first nine buildings that would be sequenced and the estimated amount to be spent over the next five years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3347

Evaluating California's Pursuit of Zero Net Energy State Buildings

Nov 14, 2017 - However, ZNE has not yet gained broad adoption, likely in part because there is limited information demonstrating that it can be done cost ‑effectively. Accordingly, if the state can demonstrate that it can build different types of state facilities —office buildings, labs, and correctional facilities, for example —in various locations as ZNE cost ‑effectively, it could help fill an existing gap in information on the incremental costs and benefits of ZNE.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3711

The 2016-17 Budget: Governor’s General Fund Deferred Maintenance Proposal

Feb 12, 2016 - While the administration ultimately did not move forward with this project after the JLBC expressed concerns, the Control Section  6.10 process —with its lack of time for review and more limited transparency —made it more challenging to ensure that this type of project was identified and removed from the administration ’s plan for funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3353

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

Feb 25, 2025 - We recognize that any estimates will be subject to significant uncertainty due to the limited amount of actual data since the enactment of Proposition 36. However, the key flaws we identify above are conceptual problems that can be improved through reasonable assumptions in areas where actual data are lacking.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2019-20 Budget: Deferred Maintenance

Feb 8, 2019 - For example, the Legislature may wish to prioritize funding certain types of projects —such as those that address fire, life, and safety issues or reduce future state costs —over other types of projects —such as those that address aesthetic concerns or do not fit the standard definition of deferred maintenance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3929

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Space standards would establish the amount of space (assignable square feet) that should be available on a per ‑student basis for classroom purposes as well as other rehabilitation purposes, if space is being used for multiple types of rehabilitation programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

Ten Years Later: Progress Towards Expending the 2006 Bond Funds

Jan 3, 2017 - Since bonds are often not sold until projects are close to completion, the state can be slower to expend bond funds for these types projects. For instance, the types of flood control projects funded by Propositions 1E and 84 are often large and have unique design characteristics that require significant time to plan and construct.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3519

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—State Project Infrastructure Fund

May 14, 2018 - This type of information is not a required part of the SPIF notifications, but would be valuable to assist the Legislature in determining whether the administration ’s proposals make sense. LAO Recommendations Set Aside Funding for Priority Projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3840

The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 26, 2025 - We recognize that any estimates will be subject to significant uncertainty due to the limited amount of actual data since the enactment of Proposition  36. However, the flaws we identify above are conceptual problems that can be improved through reasonable assumptions in areas where actual data is lacking.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991