The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - We recommend the Legislature reject the proposed equipment and operating cost augmentations, as we do not find them to be well justified. We recommend the Legislature approve the capital outlay projects, but switch their funding source from the General Fund to the MVA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2024-25 Budget: Transportation Budget Solutions

Feb 23, 2024 - While these proposals reduce funding for potential projects in the future, they do not impact support for existing projects. In the cases of both activities, a notable amount of funding would be maintained to help accomplish key objectives, albeit at a reduced level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4854

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Transportation

Dec 21, 2018 - Each program generally falls into one of four categories: ( 1)  d emonstrations and pilots, ( 2)  e arly commercial deployment of new technologies, ( 3)  p rograms focused on reducing local pollution through fleet turnover, and ( 4)  i nstalling fueling or charging infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/report/3912

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

Jan 13, 2020 - Such an approach would provide districts with long ‑term relief that would make balancing their budgets easier to do on a sustained basis. Universities Governor Proposes Discretionary Base Increases for the Universities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 16, 2023 - The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Transportation $560 $10,880 a Funding was provided as part of the 2022 ‑23 funding agreement, but some funding was scored to 2021 ‑22. b Includes a small amount of funding for CTC to conduct administrative activities. c Includes $300 million dedicated to adapting certain rail lines to sea ‑level rise, as well as $1.8 billion for projects in Southern
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4804

DMV Shift to Online Services Due to COVID-19

Oct 16, 2020 - For example, although the majority of vehicle registration renewals are completed outside of field offices, vehicle registration renewals still mak e up about 18  percent of all transaction completed in field offices even though all vehicle registration renewals can now be completed in other service channels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4283

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

Jan 14, 2019 - These state subsidies would supplement federal subsidies already available to some households and would provide new subsidies to some relatively higher ‑income households that currently do not currently qualify.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

Road Charge Pilot Program Update

Sep 15, 2016 - The various options were offered in order to (1) address privacy concerns by providing som e options that do not involve electronic tracking and (2) assess the accuracy of reports of miles driven under various methods.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3499

The 2020-21 Budget: Transportation

Feb 10, 2020 - While increased funding for litter abatement is an interim solution, doing so comes with some opportunity cost. Specifically, spending more SHA funds on litter abatement leaves less funding for other transportation programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4149

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - There are a handful of differences in our estimates, but these changes are small enough on net that they do not substantively change our assessment of the budget condition. Specifically, the administration has higher revenue estimates than our office, but these are mostly offset by their higher spending estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951