The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget provides $5  million in one-time General Fund for California Volunteers to offer grants to AmeriCorps programs to fund coaches at K-12 schools. This program has received limited-term funding in prior years, including $5  million in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

Debt Service on Infrastructure Bonds

Nov 15, 2017 - These bonds include some of the remaining unsold infrastructure bonds that vo ters approved in 2006, 2008, 2014, and 2016. They also include a portion of the bonds that the Legislature has put on the June and November 2018 ballots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3713

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

Feb 9, 2016 - However, based on our review, we identify several issues that merit legislative consideration, as summarized in Figure  5 and discussed in more detail below. Figure 5 LAO Assessment of Governor ’s Proposal Proposal lacks important information for legislative evaluation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3347

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—Deferred Maintenance

May 15, 2018 - Unlike in prior years, the administration ’s proposal includes a provision that would allow departments to use up 10  percent of their allocations —up to $5  million —to conduct assessment of department infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3841

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - The state provided $3.5  million one ‑time funding for equipment in 2016 ‑17 and provides about $400,000 ongoing funding for DRP ‑TV, which is a closed ‑circuit platform that delivers 24/7 televised programming content.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

Feb 12, 2016 - In contrast, the proposal funds about 5  percent of the needs identified by the Department of Parks and Recreation and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Differing funding levels may make sense to the extent they reflect differing levels of need, severity of need, or priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3353

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The offset from the fund balance includes $5  million that became unrestricted as the budget package reduced the statutorily required trial court emergency reserve from $10  million to $5  million. The budget also reverts up to $50.7  million one-time General Fund provided in prior budgets —$30.1  million from 2022-23 and $20.6  million from 2023- 24 —for various purposes to help address the state ’s budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2019-20 Budget: Deferred Maintenance

Feb 8, 2019 - Additionally, it provides new one ‑time funding of $6. 5  m illion in 2019 ‑20 for some specific roof and fire alarm replacement projects at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation [CDCR].)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3929

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 20, 2018 - Legislature Funded Initial Projects in 2016 ‑17 and 2017 ‑18. The 2016 ‑17 and 2017 ‑18 Budget Acts included about $870  million in funding —mostly from lease revenue bonds —for the O Street and new Natural Resources Buildings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3758

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Capital Outlay

Oct 17, 2019 - The vast majority of the approved capital outlay funds in 2019 ‑20 are from three sources: the General Fund ($1.5  billion); Public Buildings Construction Fund ($1.1  billion), which comes from lease revenue bonds; and the 2016 California Community College Capital Outlay Bond Fund, which comes from general obligation bonds passed in Proposition  51 (2016) ($539  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4105