The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - The protracted time line reflects the complexity of balancing multiple — often competing —goals , ongoing and potential legal challenges, and the board ’s willingness to allow time for development of a VA proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Elimination of State Environmental Positions

Feb 17, 2026 - Consequently, if the Legislature wishes to retain the positions as part of its final budget package, it likely will need to find a commensurate level of savings elsewhere in the budget, at least for those positions supported by the General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5124

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Proposals

Mar 19, 2026 - The functions that LCI performs were part of OPR until that office underwent restructuring in 2024 and split into two new offices: the Governor ’s Office of Service and Community Engagement (GO-SERVE) and LCI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Governor ’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation The 2024-25 budget package established the Governor ’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI) as part of a reorganization of the former Governor ’s Office of Planning and Research.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

Options for Creating a Forestry Management Training Center

Jan 4, 2022 - Additionally, they require more significant time commitments on the part of participants. Accordingly, it would be important to make sure that the program is designed to give the necessary training, but without requiring students to participate in a longer program than is required to meet their career goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4487

The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - Program Created With One ‑Time Federal Funds in 2021 ‑22. California chose to dedicate $185  million from its federal COVID ‑19 relief funds —the majority of the $237  million noted earlier that went to CA Volunteers —to establish the Youth Jobs Corps program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723

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

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget includes $672  million in Federal Trust Fund expenditure authority and $12  million in reimbursement authority related to the anticipated receipt of various federal grants funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, most notably from the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnership program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

New Infrastructure Legislation: Summary and Issues for Legislative Oversight

Aug 8, 2023 - The package also includes requirements for several annual and one-time reports to provide the Legislature with key information to help inform its oversight efforts. For example, Chapter  58 requires annual reports with information on active and expired job order contracts, as well as a one-time report on Caltrans ’ and DWR ’s use of progressive design-build authority.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4785

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Tax Credit Proposal

Feb 24, 2026 - In large part due to this cost differential, currently only a small share —less than 2   percent —of aviation fuel used in the United States is SAF. SAF Production Occurs Alongside Other Renewable Fuels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

The 2026-27 Budget: Cap-and-Invest Expenditure Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - For example, the administration ’s proposal to support the Sixth California Climate Change Assessment serves as a somewhat nontraditional example of a GGRF state operations category activity, in that it is not directly linked to implementing cap ‑and ‑invest or GGRF ‑funded programs and would support one ‑time activities rather than ongoing state staff.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114