The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Final Year of Funding for California Education Learning Lab. The budget package includes a final year of funding totaling $5.5  million from the General Fund for the California Education Learning Lab, with the intention to eliminate the program beginning in 2026-27 (which will achieve $4  million in ongoing savings).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Instead, community college staff process incarcerated students ’ Promise Grant applications (providing assistance with completing the form, if needed), and the state covers the cost of the foregone revenues with Proposition  98 General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions [Publication Details]

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5081

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 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - Because the policies that will impact the makeup of the population at SQRC have not yet been finalized and the department has not yet engaged stakeholders in the planning process, it is unclear whether electrical and barbering/manicurist programs represent the highest priority for expansion at this time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Oct 17, 2019 - Ultimately, this language was not included as part of the final budget agreement. New Positions to Review Private Attorneys General Act. Under state law, employers who violate the state ’s labor laws —such as the laws governing minimum wage, rest and meal breaks, and overtime pay —are legally liable to repay unpaid wages and pay associated penalties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 20, 2018 - Finally, we recommend that the Legislature continue to seek additional information from the administration on its strategy for state office space in Sacramento before approving funding for the construction of these projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3758

Evaluating California's Pursuit of Zero Net Energy State Buildings

Nov 14, 2017 - On the one hand, on ‑site solar PV can provide a source of renewable energy that can replace other forms of electricity generation that rely on fossil fuels and produce various types of localized air pollution (in addition to GHG emissions).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3711

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 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - Notably, the final budget package does not include $25.8  million from the General Fund and $75  million from federal funds to implement the Wildfire Mitigation Financial Assistance Program created by Chapter  391 of 2019 (AB  38, Wood).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277