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

Oct 17, 2019 - Due to increases in health premiums and the number of retirees receiving the benefit, the state ’s pay-as-you-go costs for this benefit increase each year. The budget assumes that the state ’s pay-as-you-go costs in 2019-20 will be $2.2  billion General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

The 2016-17 Budget: The Governor's State Office Building Proposal

Feb 9, 2016 - Third, we recommend that the Legislature determine its preferred approach for funding these projects — pay –as –you –go or borrowing —and how much funding to allocate to address the state ’s infrastructure demands both in 2016 –17 and ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3347

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

Apr 11, 2025 - The Governor ’s proposal gets the state closer to achieving those goals. However, we recommend the following changes to the Governor ’s proposed performance payment to address the concerns we identified above.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2019-20 Budget: Deferred Maintenance

Feb 8, 2019 - Without such strategies or proposals, there is no certainty that departments will have the necessary tools or other resources to address the underlying causes of their deferred maintenance backlogs and ensure that the problem does not get worse.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3929

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

Feb 25, 2025 - To the extent certain needed data are not currently colle cted, the plan would identify how that data will be collected, including the instruments or counting rules that will be used to gather it, the data systems that will be used to manage it, and the staff responsible for doing this.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2016-17 Budget: Governor’s General Fund Deferred Maintenance Proposal

Feb 12, 2016 - A strategy for preventing the accumulation of new deferred maintenance projects is essential to ensuring that the problem does not get worse. Moreover, the administration has not identified a long –term plan for working through the rest of the deferred maintenance backlog.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3353

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—Deferred Maintenance

May 15, 2018 - A strategy for preventing the accumulation of new deferred maintenance projects is essential to ensuring that the problem does not get worse. Moreover, the administration has not identified a long-term plan for working through the rest of the deferred maintenance backlog.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3841

The 2020-21 Budget: Debt Service on Infrastructure Bonds

Nov 20, 2019 - Our projections do not include any additional debt service costs for new bonds that might be authorized by the voters or the Legislature during the forecast period, such as Proposition  13, a $15  billion general obligation bond for schools scheduled for the March  2020 election.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4118

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Some faculty do not feel comfortable or do not want to work inside a prison. In addition, many prisons are in rural areas of the state with relatively small pools of individuals who are qualified to teach postsecondary courses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget package also included supplemental reporting language requiring a report —due on or before March  1, 2026, and annually thereafter for three years —on the problems the program was designed to address and how the funds were used.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081