The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - The budget package also authorized nearly 80 new positions across 12 departments to administer Proposition  4 ‑funded programs. Trailer bill language adopted in Chapter  106 of 2025 (A B  149 , Committee on Budget) also allowed state agencies and departments to use the emergency rulemaking process under the Administrative Procedure Act to develop and adopt their bond program guidelines and selection criteria.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5115

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 4

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget package also authorizes nearly 80 new positions across 12 departments to administer Proposition  4-funded programs, as displayed in Figure  2. As shown, the number of new positions range from 13 at the Department of Conservation to one each at the Tahoe Conservancy and California Conservation Corps.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5076

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2025 - Reduces Prior General Fund Augmentations by Nearly $80  Million. As noted earlier in Figure  4, the spending plan reduces several prior-year DWR General Fund appropriations to help solve the budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

Frequently Asked Questions About Wildfires in California

Jan 28, 2025 - As of the 2024-25 fiscal year, the state has already appropriated $2.7  billion, with an additional cumulative $900  million planned to be provided in forthcoming annual state budgets through 2028-29.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4952

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

Jan 13, 2020 - . $900   Million in Safety Net Reserve. The 2018 ‑ 19 b udget package created the Safety Net Reserve to save money specifically for California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) and Medi ‑Cal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

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

Nov 10, 2020 - (The researchers defined communities as disadvantaged if they had a median household income of less than 80 percent of the state median, and cumulatively burdened if they ranked in the top one‑quarter of census tracts in the state for environmental burdens and socioeconomic vulnerability.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4294

Assessing California's Climate Policies—The 2022 Scoping Plan Update

Jan 4, 2023 - Sales of electric HVAC and water heaters for existing buildings 80 percent by 2025. All buildings retrofitted to electric appliances by 2035. 80 percent by 2030. Appliances replaced at end of life. 80 percent by 2030.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4656

The 2018-19 Budget: Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 14, 2018 - The Governor ’s budget includes funding for CDCR to supervise the entire projected parole population for 2018 ‑19, which includes the 80 p arolee participants. In addition, it is unclear why CCC requires five additional staff if its main responsibility would be to provide pay and benefits to 80 p rogram participants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3747

The 2020-21 Budget: Climate Change Proposals

Feb 13, 2020 - Similarly, the state has made major investments in wildfire prevention and forest health activities in recent years, including nearly $ 900  m illion from GGRF since 2014 and $ 50  m illion from Proposition  68.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4155

The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - CA Volunteers allocated 80  percent of the $185  million to the largest 13 cities in the state using a population ‑based formula ($148  million), and granted 19  percent on a competitive basis to 14 other cities and counties ($35  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723