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

May 15, 2018 - Instead, the budget requires the Department of Finance (DOF) to provide a list of projects to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC) 30 days prior to allocating funds to a department. Subsequent to the allocation of funds, departments may change their list of projects subject to approval by DOF.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3841

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Patients are supposed to be transferred to an APP within 72 hours of the referral, but no more than ten days after the referral and can generally stay up to 45 days. Currently, there are 489 APP beds, all of which are in state prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Laptops are to be distributed in phases across all prisons, with every student participating in postsecondary education each term eligible for a computer, along with people participating in other rehabilitative programming.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

Feb 12, 2016 - The state has invested many billions of dollars in its infrastructure assets, which play critical roles in the state ’s economy. Moreover, when repairs to key building and infrastructure components are put off, facilities can eventually require more expensive investments, such as emergency repairs (when systems break down), capital improvements (such as major rehabilitation), or replacement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3353

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

Feb 9, 2016 - Furthermore, given the scale of the state ’s infrastructure needs, bonds are likely to play a substantial role for years to come —whether for funding the Governor ’s three proposed priority projects or other infrastructure projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3347

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget includes provisional language authorizing the Department of Finance to augment State Emergency Telephone Number Account fund expenditure authority by amounts “necessary to continue implementation of the Next Generation 9-1-1 system, including transition from the legacy 9-1-1 system, ” subject to 30-day legislative notification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2023-24 Budget: Financing Approaches for Capital Outlay Projects

Feb 28, 2023 - In other words, for every $1 spent on cash financing, the state reduces its future debt payments by a total of $2. (Over the long term, inflation will erode the real cost of these payments, which are fixed in nominal terms once the bonds are issued, resulting in inflation-adjusted costs of about $1.40 for each $ 1 borrowed.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

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

Apr 11, 2025 - The proposed formula also assumes that the state saves parole-related costs every time someone is diverted from prison. However, this is not the case because generally only people with current serious or violent offenses can be placed on parole.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

Jan 13, 2020 - Unlike the Governor ’s and the Legislature ’s approach last year, which connected every CSU and UC funding augmentation with a specific purpose, the Governor ’s approach in 2020 ‑21 gives the segments flexibility in allocating their base increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2019-20 Budget: Deferred Maintenance

Feb 8, 2019 - The state has invested many billions of dollars in its infrastructure assets, which play critical roles in the state ’s economy. Moreover, when repairs to key building and infrastructure components are put off, facilities can eventually require more expensive investments, such as emergency repairs (when systems break down), capital improvements (such as major rehabilitation), or replacement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3929