The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan

Feb 12, 2025 - With previous bonds, administering agencies still were able to maintain public processes for developing program guidelines despite this exemption. Second, the administration has committed to conducting a transparent process and providing opportunities for public partici pation as it develops program guidelines.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4958

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - Trailer bill language adopted in Chapter  106 of 2025 (A B  149 , Committee on Budget) also allowed state agencies and departments to use the emergency rulemaking process under the Administrative Procedure Act to develop and adopt their bond program guidelines and selection criteria.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5115

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

Mar 19, 2026 - Providing ongoing support for all of the existing L CI staff that work on CEQA guidelines and modernization efforts can help avoid delays or incompletion of such work and ensure the state continues to provide effective CEQA coordination, technical assistance, and information.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

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

Feb 10, 2026 - Most notably, because including state operations expenditures as part of Tier 1 means they receive first priority for available GGRF, adding new activities to this category can have the effect of gradually “crowding out ” other GGRF ‑funded programs and activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

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

Feb 24, 2026 - There also are a number of other refiners in the United States that currently produce RD and could, with the purchase of some ad ditional equipment, be converted to produce SAF in addition to, or instead of, RD.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

Overview of New Updates to the Cap-and-Invest Program

Dec 9, 2025 - For example, the new Climate Bureau could serve as a helpful resource to the Legislature, adding valuable capacity to conduct program reviews and evaluations that are independent of the Executive Branch.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5097

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

Mar 18, 2026 - The state added the doubling goal as a narrative water quality objective in the 1995 Bay ‑Delta Plan. Doubling natural production relative to the average annual 1967 ‑1991 baseline would mean nearly 900,000 naturally produced salmon annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - First, in April 2021, the Legislature passed a $ 536 m illion “early action ” wildfire resilience package that added $ 2 m illion on a one ‑time basis to CalFire ’s 2020 ‑21 General Fund budget for additional defensible space inspectors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457

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

Oct 16, 2025 - In order to help expedite bond implementation, budget trailer legislation —Chapter  106 (AB  149, Committee on Budget) —authorizes administering departments to use emergency regulations to develop and adopt guidelines and selection criteria for Proposition  4-funded programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

The 2019-20 Budget: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 14, 2019 - Agricultural fertilizers and animal wastes app lied to croplands are by far the largest regional sources of nitrate in groundwater, although other sources can be important in certain areas. SWRCB Administers Programs to Provide Safe Drinking Water.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3933