The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The language also requires OES to provide the Legislature with two progress reports on the project —which has faced significant implementation challenges —on or before November 1, 2025 and March  1, 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 28, 2023 - This is especially problematic when the state faces a significant budget problem. Using cash instead of bonds for these projects means the state has to identify an additional $491  million in near-term budget solutions —including cuts to existing programmatic commitments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

Implementing AB 900's Prison Construction and Rehabilitation Initiatives [Publication Details]

May 14, 2009 - Implementing AB 900's Prison Construction and Rehabilitation Initiatives [Publication Details] Implementing AB 900's Prison Construction and Rehabilitation Initiatives Format: HTML Description: We examine the steps that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has taken to implement Chapter 7, Statutes of 2007 (AB 900, Solorio) which authorized a total of approximately
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2063

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Specifically, at a $3.6  million annual cost for SQRC alone, this additional staffing could cost around $100  million annually to implement statewide —particularly notable given the multiyear deficits facing the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2016-17 Budget: Review of UC’s Merced Campus Expansion Proposal

Feb 10, 2016 - To help guide the Legislature in its review of the proposal, we examine the key decisions it faces. As shown in Figure  2, these decisions are largely sequential, as the first decisions will have implications for the remaining issues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3349

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

Jan 13, 2020 - While our office ’s most recent revenue estimates are somewhat higher in the out years than the administration ’s current estimates, under both sets of revenue estimates the state would face operating deficits under two conditions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Student Outcomes Course Success Rates Are Similar to Other CCC Students … The Chancellor ’s Office currently does not provide public ‑facing data on any outcomes related to CCC students at state prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The Administration’s Sacramento Office Building Construction Strategy: Ensuring Robust Oversight

Dec 14, 2016 - LAO Recommendations Based on our assessment, we make several recommendations to help guide the Legislature as it faces key decisions points related to the administration ’s strategy: First, we recommend that the Legislature direct the administration to provide additional information and a robust analysis that will allow the Legislature to assess if the strategy represents the best approach available to address aging state office buildings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3516

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - (The purpose of the SIBTF is to assume the financial liability from the prior injury that employers would otherwise face when hiring a previously injured individual.) Following a series of workers ’ compensation reforms in 2004 and 2012, the number of new subsequent injury workers ’ compensation claims has roughly doubled and the benefit payments increased from $20.9  million in 2010-11 to $67.4  million in 2017-18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - Should the Legislature proceed with the concept of a state individual mandate and state insurance subsidies, it will face various choices related to the structure of both the state subsidies and the individual mandate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916