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

The 2017-18 Budget: Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 15, 2017 - LAO Recommendations Prior to taking action on ARB ’s request for $413  million to construct a new testing and research facility in Riverside, we recommend that the Legislature: Consider Alternate Fund Sources to Pay for Part of Lab.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3558

The 2022-23 Budget: Office of Planning and Research Budget Proposals

Feb 9, 2022 - California Education Learning Lab and Golden State Awards Background State Has Provided Higher Education Innovation Awards. In every budget cycle from 2014 ‑15 to 2020 ‑21, Governors have proposed one ‑time grant initiatives to support innovative practices at the state ’s public higher education institutions that improve student outcomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4523

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

The 2020-21 Budget: Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 25, 2020 - For example, the SBB review found that within the operational support service area, the largest gap in service levels was within its genetics research lab programs, which provide scientific information to help guide the department ’s activities to preserve fish, wildlife, and plants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4178

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - The COVID ‑19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in state and local public health systems —in staffing levels, expertise, lab capacity, and flexibility. Public health systems previously have been funded largely with categorical sources of funding —federal grants and state special funds —or one ‑time General Fund for specific purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492