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

Feb 26, 2025 - Accordingly, the number of people that reach prison under Proposition  36 for drug possession is likely to be substantially smaller than the number of people that were sentenced to prison for drug possession prior to the passage of Proposition  47.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget includes provisional language authorizing the Department of Finance to augment State Emergency Telephone Number Account fund expenditure authority by amounts “necessary to continue implementation of the Next Generation 9-1-1 system, including transition from the legacy 9-1-1 system, ” subject to 30-day legislative notification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Accordingly, the number of people that reach prison under Proposition  36 for drug possession is likely to be substantially smaller than the number of people that were sentenced to prison for drug possession prior to the passage of Proposition  47.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Apr 11, 2025 - We recommend that a group of experts, be convened to identify evidence-based practices that are likely to reduce the number of prison commitments from the county felony supervision population. Only these practices would be eligible for funding through this portion of the grant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Overall, we found that these education programs have several positive aspects but also a number of problems and missed opportunities. Anecdotally, Both Students and Staff Cite Benefits of Prison Education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - . $16.1  million ($9.7  million from 2022-23 and $6.4  million from 2023-24) in unspent monies provided to increase the number of official court reporters in family and civil cases. $9.2  million from 2023-24 related to the Firearm Relinquishment Grant Program, which supported court-based programs to remove firearms from people prohibited from owning them. $5  million from 2023-24 related to Judicial Council operational savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Jan 13, 2020 - First, there are a number of proposals that could be viewed as more or less discretionary. For example, we categorize the full amount the administration sets aside for state employee compensation increases as discretionary.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

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

Jan 14, 2019 - For 2019 ‑20, the Governor ’s budget also includes a total of $ 555  m illion for a number of proposals in several departments related to disaster response and recovery (about one ‑third of this is one time).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

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

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - Following a series of workers ’ compensation reforms in 2004 and 2012, the number of new subsequent injury workers ’ compensation claims has roughly doubled and the benefit payments increased from $20.9  million in 2010-11 to $67.4  million in 2017-18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101