The 2024-25 Budget: Establishing the Office of the Inspector General for the High-Speed Rail Authority

Feb 8, 2024 - Together, the ongoing $2.4  million is proposed to support ten permanent positions and the additional $600,000 would support four temporary positions for three years. The new positions are summarized in Figure  2.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4833

The 2019-20 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 26, 2019 - The federal government enacted the REAL  ID Act in 2005 t hat requires state ‑issued driver licenses and identification (ID) cards to meet minimum identity verification and security standards in order for them to be accepted by the federal government for official purposes —such as accessing most federal facilities or boarding federally regulated commercial aircraft.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3948

Funding for Transportation Programs [Publication Details]

Feb 23, 2006 - In addition, as part of his Strategic Growth Plan, the Governor proposes to provide $12 billion in general obligation bond funding and $14 billion in revenue bond funding for state transportation over the next ten years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1435

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 16, 2023 - In order to help address the state budget shortfall, the spending plan adopts the approach of using lease revenue bonds —rather than up-front General Fund, as the administration had originally planned —to fund the design-build phases of ten field office replacement projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4804

The 2017-18 Budget: Department of Transportation

Feb 14, 2017 - Specifically, state law requires the development of a ten-year plan that identifies longer-term needs and goals, th e identification of a four-year program of specific projects to be funded, and the review and approval of the program of projects by the California Transportation Commission (CTC).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3560

The 2017-18 Budget: Overview of the Governor’s Transportation Budget

Jan 18, 2017 - The budget estimates that the package will generate an average of $4.2  billion annually over the next ten years, primarily from a new $65 vehicle registration tax and increasing gasoline and diesel excise taxes and indexing the rates for inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3533

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - Recent budgets have allocated or planned tens of billions of dollars for one ‑time or temporary spending purposes in 2021 ‑22, 2022 ‑23, and 2023 ‑24. The Legislature can select an entirely different set of spending solutions to address the budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Sep 29, 2022 - (Previously, Caltrans was only authorized to use design-build for ten projects over a limited period.) Design-build is a project delivery method in which both the final design and the construction of a project are simultaneously awarded to a single entity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4628

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Transportation

Apr 5, 2022 - In  response to Executive Order N ‑19 ‑19, which called for CalSTA to leverage discretionary state transportation funds to reduce GHG emissions in the transportation sector and adapt to climate change, CalSTA developed ten guiding principles to leverage state transportation dollars to meet the state ’s climate, health, and social equity goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4576

The 2016-17 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 23, 2016 - However, our estimates of the Governor ’s plan indicate that the MVA would be barely balanced over the next few years and likely face an operational shortfall in the tens of millions of dollars by 2019 –20 .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3366