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

Apr 11, 2025 - The proposed formula has three different payments: (1)  a performance payment, (2)  a maintenance payment, and (3)  a minimum guarantee payment. These payments would determine each county ’s total SB  678 grant award.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

May 15, 2018 - For most projects (those $1  million or smaller), the Legislature would only be provided with quarterly notification after the fact. Recent experience with the administration of the deferred maintenance funds provided in 2015 ‑16 and 2016 ‑17 highlights the challenges for legislative oversight inherent in this process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3841

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - This reflects a lower cost per test and a decrease in tests per patient from 14 tests per year to 12 per year. Price Increases. The budget provides General Fund augmentations beginning in 2024-25 due to price increases, including: $26  million annually for four years to cover the cost resulting from a new contract for parole Sex Offender
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

A Ten-Year Perspective: California Infrastructure Spending [Publication Details]

Aug 25, 2011 - Throughout the report, we also highlight ways the state could manage infrastructure to reduce state costs such as prioritizing the state’s infrastructure investments to the most critical and appropriate programs, adopting strategies to reduce infrastructure demand, and identifying additional revenue to support infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2509

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

Jan 13, 2020 - Below, we highlight some initial questions the Legislature might want to ask the administration as it considers the merits of the requests. Why is the administration taking a new approach to address homelessness?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

Ten Years Later: Progress Towards Expending the 2006 Bond Funds

Jan 3, 2017 - However, as described above, the history of the November 2006 bonds highlights that there are a number of reasons for lags in selling bonds that are not necessarily problematic or within the control of state agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3519

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget includes provisional language authorizing the Department of Finance to augment State Emergency Telephone Number Account fund expenditure authority by amounts “necessary to continue implementation of the Next Generation 9-1-1 system, including transition from the legacy 9-1-1 system, ” subject to 30-day legislative notification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The Administration’s Sacramento Office Building Construction Strategy: Ensuring Robust Oversight

Dec 14, 2016 - We think that the administration ’s analysis should explore two main types of alternatives: (1)  different mixes of buildings to be addressed and (2)  other available approaches to address these buildings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3516

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Patients are supposed to be transferred to an APP within 72 hours of the referral, but no more than ten days after the referral and can generally stay up to 45 days. Currently, there are 489 APP beds, all of which are in state prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - The Governor ’s budget also includes $ 750  m illion (non ‑Proposition  98 General Fund) one time to create more full ‑day kindergarten programs. The funds are primarily intended for constructing new or retrofitting existing school facilities needed to operate the longer ‑day programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916