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

Apr 11, 2025 - Because carrying out the steps above will take time, we recommend, for at least two years, providing the maintenance payment as proposed by the Governor, with the simple modifications we describe in the next section.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This represents a net decrease of $63  million (22  percent) compared to estimated 2024-25 spending, due largely to a year-to-year reduction in federal funding for the AmeriCorps program and the phasing out of some limited-term General Fund augmentations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 25, 2025 - These officers lead a team, including medical and mental health staff, to develop individualized plans to support out ‑of ‑cell time and engagement in positive activities while ensuring safety. Peer Support Specialist Programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Specifically, we recommend the Chancellor ’s Office be required to report: the number of incarcerated FTE students served, broken out by instructional modality; course success rates, also broken out by instructional modality; term ‑to ‑term persistence rates; share of first ‑year cohorts that pass college ‑level math and English; and program completion rates (such as earning an associate degree or certificate).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

Ten Years Later: Progress Towards Expending the 2006 Bond Funds

Jan 3, 2017 - We note that, in other cases, it may be less feasible to design bonds to go out quickly without affecting other priorities. For instance, if a bond were to require a lower than typic al financial contribution from local and federal governments, this could result in the state funding fewer projects overall than if those other entities were contributing as much to the projects ’ costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3519

The 2016-17 Budget: The Governor's State Office Building Proposal

Feb 9, 2016 - The Assessment Report found that all the buildings that were evaluated are safe, serviceable, and functioning. Thus, the state can continue to operate these facilities for the near future, and there is no reason why a modest difference in project timelines would be particularly problematic operationally.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3347

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

Jan 13, 2020 - We recommend that the Legislature ask the administration to lay out how Medi ‑Cal Healthier California for All affects other programs and planning initiatives, such as the Governor ’s Master Plan for Aging and efforts related to homelessness.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

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

Feb 26, 2025 - Similarly, the estimate appears to include all admissions for the lower level theft crimes affected by Proposition  47. However, Proposition  36 only affects a subset of those cases, such as by allowing multiple acts of misdemeanor theft to be prosecuted as a felony if the combined dollar amount exceeds $950.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Oct 17, 2019 - The intent of PAGA is to improve enforcement of the state ’s labor laws by offering an alternative to state-led enforcement that could be used, for example, when the state lacks the resources to enforce all alleged labor law violations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

Evaluating California's Pursuit of Zero Net Energy State Buildings

Nov 14, 2017 - With regard to energy efficiency, the memo sets energy use targets for all existing buildings pursuing ZNE and reiterates the Governor ’s executive order requirement that all new buildings be constructed to use at least 15  p ercent less energy than would otherwise be required under Title  24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3711