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

Evaluating California's Pursuit of Zero Net Energy State Buildings

Nov 14, 2017 - Accordingly, if the state can demonstrate that it can build different types of state facilities —office buildings, labs, and correctional facilities, for example —in various locations as ZNE cost ‑effectively, it could help fill an existing gap in information on the incremental costs and benefits of ZNE.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3711