The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 16, 2025 - Cash flow adjustments from prior budget packages reverted previously awarded funds, with the intent to reappropriate those dollars in future years for the same projects when awardees are expected to need construction funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5077

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Implications for State Transportation Funding and Programs

Dec 13, 2023 - This is because the increase would be applied uniformly regardless of income—so responding to an increased charge of 10 cents per gallon, for example, would require dedicating a larger proportional share of monthly expenditures for a lower‑earning household as compared to households with more resources upon which to draw.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4821

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 5, 2020 - The enacted budget did not include a May Revision proposal by the Governor to transfer $130.5  million in interest earnings from SHA to the General Fund. High-Speed Rail Authority (HSRA) The budget provides a total of $2.9  billion for HSRA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4272

The 2025-26 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 12, 2025 - Specifically, the 2024 ‑25 budget package reverted funds appropriated for these programs in prior years —that had already been awarded to projects —with the intent of reappropriating the dollars in a future year when they are actually needed to cover planned expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4961

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

Jan 13, 2020 - Eventually, the administration intends for the Climate Catalyst lending program to be self ‑sustaining from fees and interest earnings. Two Ballot ‑Related Proposals. The Governor ’s budget includes two ballot ‑related proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

A Review of Caltrans’ Vehicle Insurance Costs

Dec 5, 2017 - In other words, claims that in the past might have cost several hundreds of thousands of dollars today are costing several millions of dollars. But determining how changes in legal practices by the state and plaintiffs ’ attorneys are affecting costs is difficult because each case can have unique circumstances.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3721

The 2023-24 Budget: Proposed Budget Solutions in Transportation Programs

Feb 13, 2023 - In response to the multibillion-dollar budget problem the state is facing, the Governor’s budget proposes $4 billion in multiyear budget solutions from the recent General Fund augmentations provided to transportation programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4676

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

Jan 18, 2017 - Figure 1 Transportation Budget Summary —Selected Funding Sources (Dollars in Millions)
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 2018-19 Budget: Governor’s May Revision Proposal for Caltrans’ Capital Outlay Support Program

May 13, 2018 - Figure 3 Caltrans ’ Capital Outlay Support Proposal (Dollars in Millions) 11% SHA = State Highway Account and RMRA = Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (created by SB 1). State Staff and Contract FTEs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3833