The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This amount includes $10  million for Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup security costs, $10  million for Family Justice Centers, and $8  million to the City of Los Angeles for fire engine purchases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

New Infrastructure Legislation: Summary and Issues for Legislative Oversight

Aug 8, 2023 - The infrastructure package may have other implications —both positive and negative —beyond the environmental, fiscal, and environmental justice-related effects discussed above. Accordingly, the Legislature will want to explore whether any such impacts emerge.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4785

The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - The program focuses on hiring youth ages 16 to 30 who may not have had access to traditional career ‑building resources, and prioritizes individuals who are lower ‑income, unemployed or out of school, justice ‑involved, transitioning from foster care, and/or engaged with the mental health or substance abuse systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723

The 2024-25 Budget: Sustainable Funding for the Department of Pesticide Regulation

Mar 5, 2024 - The  proposal does not provide resources to implement recently chaptered   legislation —such as for Chapter  662 of 2023 (A B  652 , Lee), which requires DPR to convene an environmental justice committee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4873

Key Differences Between Recent Medical Cannabis Laws and Proposition 64: A Preliminary Review

Dec 20, 2016 - Department of Justice chooses not to prosecute most cannabis users and businesses that follow state and local cannabis laws if those laws are consistent with federal priorities, such as preventing cannabis from being taken to other states.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3517

The 2022-23 Budget: Wildfire Response Proposals

Jan 28, 2022 - The 2022-23 Budget: Wildfire Response Proposals ‑$55.0 ‑1% a Other includes the Office of the State Fire Marshal, Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, and Department of Justice Legal Services. CalFire = California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4504

Department of Toxic Substances Control: Performance Improvement Initiatives Merit Oversight

Apr 4, 2017 - In conjunction with DTSC’s Public Participation Branch, EERD coordinates with community action and environmental justice groups throughout California on hazardous waste issues. Working in collaboration with EERD, OCI investigates complaints of illegal handling of hazardous waste and participates in environmental initiatives focused on high-priority illegal activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3644

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Sep 12, 2024 - Figure 4 Discretionary Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Spending Plan (In Millions) Fund Shifts From General Fund $2,434 ZEV fueling infrastructure grants (ZEV) CEC Demand side grid support (Energy) CEC Clean trucks/buses/off ‑road equipment (ZEV) CEC Extreme heat/community resilience (Extreme heat) OPR Prescribed fire pilot; monitoring & research (Wildfire) CalFire Climate Action Corps (Community
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4928

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

Nov 10, 2020 - To improve upon these health and environmental justice issues, in 2019 t he Legislature passed and the Governor signed Chapter 120 (SB 200, Monning) which established a new stream of dedicated funding totaling up to $130 million annually for safe and affordable drinking water.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4294

The 2021-22 Budget: Department of Toxic Substances Control

Mar 19, 2021 - The proposal indicates that funding for all three components will be targeted for “environmental justice (EJ) communities ” that are burdened by multiple sources of pollution and are disproportionately vulnerable to their effects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4406