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

Apr 11, 2025 - Additionally, the administration ind icates it does not anticipate proposing future changes to the baseline. This means it would not be adjusted for policy changes such as Proposition  36 (2024). Proposition  36 increased punishment for various theft and drug crimes, which could make it easier for people to fail-to-prison while on county felony supervision.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - State Employee Compensation Legislature Ratified New Agreements With All 21 Bargaining Units. Chapter 5 of 2025 (AB 102, Gabriel) amended the budget to include Control Section 3.90, which established an expectation that the administration would meet and confer in good faith with all 21 of the state’s bargaining units before July 1, 2025 to achieve budgetary savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Oct 17, 2019 - The intent of PAGA is to improve enforcement of the state ’s labor laws by offering an alternative to state-led enforcement that could be used, for example, when the state lacks the resources to enforce all alleged labor law violations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

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

Feb 25, 2025 - As shown in Figure  3 , with the added capacity provided under this proposal, the department will continue to have more than enough existing capacity to meet all of its current and projected needs for licensed MHCBs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Feb 26, 2025 - Similarly, the estimate appears to include all admissions for the lower level theft crimes affected by Proposition  47. However, Proposition  36 only affects a subset of those cases, such as by allowing multiple acts of misdemeanor theft to be prosecuted as a felony if the combined dollar amount exceeds $950.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Laptops are to be distributed in phases across all prisons, with every student participating in postsecondary education each term eligible for a computer, along with people participating in other rehabilitative programming.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Capital Outlay

Oct 17, 2019 - Total estimated costs for all of these projects are $12.5  billion. For a complete list of all state capital outlay projects approved in the 2019 ‑20 budget, see our Supplemental Report of the 2019‑20 Budget Act .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4105

Ten Years Later: Progress Towards Expending the 2006 Bond Funds

Jan 3, 2017 - For example, a major reason that bond funds from Propositions 1B, 1C , and 1D remain unspent is that not all of the awarded funds were spent by their initial recipients, and remaining funds will be reallocated to new projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3519

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

Jan 13, 2020 - Medi‑Cal Healthier California for All Funds “Medi ‑Cal Healthier California for All ” Proposal. In October 2019, the administration announced a series of proposed Medi ‑Cal reforms that are now collectively referred to as Medi ‑Cal Healthier California for All.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2016-17 Budget: Review of UC’s Merced Campus Expansion Proposal

Feb 10, 2016 - UC plans to meet this expectation by growing enrollment at all of its campuses, including Berkeley, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The state has not set any additional enrollment expectations for UC beyond 2016 –17 .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3349