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

Feb 26, 2025 - We estimate that the 2025-26 transfer could be underestimated by around a few million dollars. The projected 2026-27 and subsequent transfers could be underestimated by significantly more —potentially in the tens of millions annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Feb 25, 2025 - MHCB Proposal Does Not Account for Reduced Costs Related to Transfers. As discussed above, the new MHCB facility would likely reduce transportation costs, as fewer people in Southern California would need to be transferred to beds in more northern parts of the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Apr 11, 2025 - Consider What Portion of State Savings to Transfer to Counties. The Legislature could consider adopting the Governor ’s proposal that 25  percent of state savings be transferred to counties. If our method for estimating state savings was used, this would increase the amount allocated to counties through the performance payment by a few million dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Evaluating the Sale-Leaseback Proposal: Should the State Sell Its Office Buildings? [Publication Details]

Apr 27, 2010 - We estimate that the sale of buildings would result in one-time revenue to the state of between $600 million and $1.4 billion, but that annual leasing costs would eventually exceed ownership costs by approximately $200 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2261

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - These include: $210  million shift of General Fund and $13  million shift in federal funds to implement the previously authorized transfer of juvenile justice grant programs from BSCC to the Office of Youth and Community Restoration.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2020-21 Budget: Debt Service on Infrastructure Bonds

Nov 20, 2019 - The DSR —the ratio of annual General Fund spending on debt service costs to annual General Fund revenues and transfers —is often used as one measure of the state ’s debt burden. As shown in Figure  1, the DSR has varied considerably in past decades between about 3  percent and 6  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4118

Debt Service on Infrastructure Bonds

Nov 15, 2017 - This ratio indicates the portion of the state ’s annual General Fund revenues and transfers that must be set aside for debt-service payments on infrastructure bonds and, therefore, are not available for other state programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3713

The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - The budget package transfers the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission to OES and includes $2.5  million ($503,000 General Fund) for OES to support the commission. Recently Passed Wildfire-Related Legislation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277

The 2016-17 Budget: Review of UC’s Merced Campus Expansion Proposal

Feb 10, 2016 - Though UC asserts that a public –private partnership would transfer risks associated with the construction and operations of a facility onto the private partner, the partner most likely will factor these risks into its bid.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3349

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

Jan 14, 2019 - The Governor ’s budget provides $ 31  m illion from the General Fund in 2019 ‑ 20 —to be expended over a few years —to backfill wildfire ‑related property tax loses for cities, counties, and special districts associated with certain major wildfires that have occurred since 2015.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916