The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Proposition  2 (2014) requires the state to spend a specified amount of money (determined through a budgetary formula) each year towards eligible liabilities. It has been state policy to satisfy this requirement through the state ’s General Fund contributions to prefund retiree health benefits and annual supplemental pension payments to the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 25, 2025 - However, based on discussions with the department, it is our understanding that CDCR used the number of people that were admitted to prison for drug possession and certain lower‑level theft crimes in 2013‑14, the year before Proposition 47 (2014) reduced prison admissions for these crimes by converting them to misdemeanors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - This decrease is primarily due to the expiration of limited-term funding provided in 2023-24 for various grant programs as well as actions taken in the 2024-25 budget process. We describe some of the major actions below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 26, 2025 - In this post, we assess the administration’s estimate of the level of spending required by Proposition 47 (2014), which reduced punishment for various crimes and requires the resulting state savings be spent on certain grant programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Apr 11, 2025 - These include the 2011 public safety realignment, which created the other forms of county felony supervision, among other changes, and Proposition  47 (2014), which reduced various drug and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2015-16 Budget: Effectively Implementing the 2014 Water Bond [Publication Details]

Feb 11, 2015 - The 2015-16 Budget: Effectively Implementing the 2014 Water Bond [Publication Details] The 2015-16 Budget: Effectively Implementing the 2014 Water Bond Format: HTML Description: In August 2014, the Legislature approved Chapter 188, Statutes of 2014 (AB 1471, Rendon), which placed before the voters a water bond measure primarily aimed at increasing the supply of clean, safe, and reliable water and restoring habitat.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3171

The 2014-15 Budget: A Review of the 2014 California Five-Year Infrastructure Plan [Publication Details]

Feb 10, 2014 - The 2014-15 Budget: A Review of the 2014 California Five-Year Infrastructure Plan [Publication Details] The 2014-15 Budget: A Review of the 2014 California Five-Year Infrastructure Plan Format: HTML Description: In this report, we review California’s Five-Year Infrastructure Plan, the first statewide infrastructure plan released by the administration since 2008.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2916

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—State Project Infrastructure Fund

May 14, 2018 - For this reason, the JLBC notification process is typically reserved for minor, midyear changes to the budget rather than substantial actions such as the approval of new projects costing many millions of dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3840

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - In 2014, the state approved Chapter  695 (S B  1391 , Hancock), which opened the way for districts to provide in ‑person instruction at state prisons by allowing them to receive regular state funding for closed ‑to ‑the ‑public courses offered to incarcerated people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

Feb 9, 2016 - Consistent with AB 1656, this plan should outline a course of action for the next 25 years. The plan should also provide options on how to start and sequence the renovation and construction of office buildings and identify the order in which the administration proposes addressing state office buildings, consistent with the scope of the Planning Study that the administration proposed in 2014 –15 .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3347