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

Apr 11, 2025 - The proposed formula uses the state ’s average cost to house a person in state prison to estimate the amount the state saves when such people are diverted. We find that using the marginal cost is a more reasonable approach.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

Feb 26, 2025 - The department then assumed that the same number of people would again be admitted to state prison under Proposition  36 and would remain in state prison for 11 months on average. In other words, the administration assumes that Proposition  36 will essentially reverse Proposition  47.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Feb 25, 2025 - However, patients may also be placed in such beds in a state hospital operated by the Department of State Hospitals (DSH) through a referral process. There is a total of 1,632 of these beds —1 ,296 in prisons and 336 in state hospitals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47 [Publication Details]

Feb 26, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47 [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4991

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

Oct 17, 2019 - Pension Contribution Growth. The California Public Employees ’ Retirement System (CalPERS) board establishes the state ’s contribution rates —as a percentage of pay —to fund employee pension benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

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

Jan 13, 2020 - The Governor allocates this amount among three uses: ( 1)  c ontinuing to implement the state ’s plan to prefund retiree health benefits, ( 2)  r epaying a 2017 ‑ 18 l oan from the state ’s cash resources that supported a supplemental pension payment in that year, and ( 3)  a supplemental pension payment to the state ’s teacher retirement system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - Board of State and Community Corrections The budget provides $494  million for the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) in 2024- 25 —a decrease of $528  million (52  percent) from the revised 2023-24 level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Jan 14, 2019 - (The budget for CSU includes an additional $ 64  m illion ongoing to cover higher retiree health benefit and pension costs.) For UC, $ 200  m illion of its ongoing augmentation is intended to cover increases in operating costs (including some employee compensation costs), student success initiatives, student hunger and housing initiatives, mental health services, and 2018 ‑ 19 e nrollment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - In 2014, the state approved Chapter  695 (S B  1391 , Hancock), which opened the way for districts to provide in ‑person instruction at state prisons by allowing them to receive regular state funding for closed ‑to ‑the ‑public courses offered to incarcerated people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—State Project Infrastructure Fund

May 14, 2018 - Background Administration Developed a State Office Building Strategy for Sacramento. As part of the 2014 ‑15 budget, the administration proposed and the Legislature approved funding for a study of state office buildings in the Sacramento area, which was to include assessments of the condition of state facilities (Facility Condition Assessments),
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3840