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

Jan 14, 2019 - These slots would be on top of the almost 9,000 full ‑day slots the state added over the past three years. Extending preschool to all children from low ‑income families is consistent with considerable research that has concluded the benefits of preschool are greatest for these children.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Because demand for a CCC education generally outstrips the number of in ‑person slots, colleges must decide which incarcerated people have enrollment priority. Enrollment priority is determined by each college.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

Funding UC Faculty Research Facilities [Publication Details]

Jun 23, 2004 - This will free up hundreds of millions of dollars of scarce state resources for other high priority projects in higher education or other program areas. Reports by Policy Area
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1190

Evaluating the Sale-Leaseback Proposal: Should the State Sell Its Office Buildings? [Publication Details]

Apr 27, 2010 - The sale-leaseback is designed to free up the state’s equity in the buildings to provide one-time revenue for addressing the state’s current budgetary shortfall. We estimate that the sale of buildings would result in one-time revenue to the state of between $600 million and $1.4 billion, but that annual leasing costs would eventually exceed ownership costs by approximately $200 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2261

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

Feb 10, 2016 - UC Implementing Instructional Efficiencies to Free Up Space. The Legislature has multiple options for expanding access to UC. One option is to encourage UC to achieve additional instructional efficiencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3349

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

Feb 28, 2023 - In our view, this would be one reasonable way to free up some General Fund cash to maintain funding for existing programs that might otherwise need to be cut to address the budget problem. Even though interest rates are relatively high right now , if interest rates come down in the future, the state typically has the option of effectively refinancing at a lower interest rate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This foundation operates the Imagination Library, which mails books free of charge to children under age five. Proposition  2 (2024) Workload. The budget provides DGS $59.5  million over 5 years (including $12.5  million in 2025-26) from the 2024 State School Facilities Fund and $356,000 ongoing from various funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 25, 2025 - This  increase in costs is partially offset by various factors, including lower ‑than ‑expected costs of providing naloxone (a  medication that can prevent overdose deaths) to people when they are released from prison and free phone calls to people in  prison.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Evaluating California's Pursuit of Zero Net Energy State Buildings

Nov 14, 2017 - (ARB also gives some allowances away for free. ) S ome entities will end up reducing their emissions if the total number of allowances available is less than the number of emissions that would otherwise occur.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3711