The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Sep 12, 2024 - As discussed below, many departments continue to receive some one-time funding augmentations in 2024 ‑25, but at notably lower aggregate levels. Despite the year-to-year decline in funding, the 2024 ‑25 totals exceed the historical levels of funding that these agencies received prior to the state experiencing General Fund surpluses in recent years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4928

The 2024-25 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Expenditure Plan

Feb 20, 2024 - DOF ’s new approach uses an average of actual allowance prices from auctions that occurred in the previous calendar year. For 2024 ‑25, this new approach has resulted in the administration basing its spending plan on higher estimates compared to its previous practice.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4847

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection [Publication Details]

Sep 12, 2024 - As discussed in this post, many departments continue to receive some one-time funding augmentations in 2024‑25, but at notably lower aggregate levels. Despite the year-to-year decline in funding, the 2024‑25 totals exceed the historical levels of funding that these agencies received prior to the state experiencing General Fund surpluses in recent years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4928

The 2024-25 Budget: Insolvency Risks for Environmental and Transportation Special Funds

Feb 27, 2024 - Insolvency Projected in 2024‑25 HWCA Projected to Be Insolvent in the Budget Year. As shown in Figure  2 , HWCA has experienced a longstanding structural deficit between its ongoing revenues and expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4858

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2023 - The budget package delays a total of $450  million in General Fund spending until 2024 ‑25: (1) $200  million from 2021 ‑22 to 2024 ‑25 for drinking water and wastewater projects at the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), and (2) $250  million that was originally planned in 2022 ‑23 and 2023 ‑24 until
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4807

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - We define a delay as an expenditure reduction that occurs in the budget window (2021 ‑22 through 2023 ‑24), but has an associated expenditure increase in a future year of the multiyear window (2024 ‑25 through 2026 ‑27).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2024-25 Budget: CalFire—Implementation of a 66-Hour Workweek

Mar 19, 2024 - If Uncertain Whether General Fund Can Support Proposal, Do Not Approve in 2024 ‑25 … Several factors contribute to uncertainties around whether the General Fund can sustain this proposal in the coming years, including its high costs, current projections of budget ‑year and out ‑year deficits, and lack of clarity regarding future economic conditions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4886

The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - CA Volunteers spread those funds across portions of 2022, 2023, and 2024 to fund the program for two and a half years. The  2022 ‑23 budget package supplemented these funds with an additional $25  million on a one ‑time basis from the General Fund for the program to augment services during the summer of 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723

The 2025-26 Budget: Various California Air Resources Board Proposals

Feb 24, 2025 - This represents a net reduction of $240   million —or 17   percent —compared to CARB ’s estimated expenditure level in 2024 ‑25. This year ‑to ‑year decline is largely the result of a significant accumulation of unspent one ‑time funding from prior years that is included in the 2024 ‑25 amount.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4980

The 2024-25 Budget: Flood Management Proposals

Feb 26, 2024 - (As such, bond funds could not be available at the beginning of the 2024‑25 fiscal year to implement the Governor’s proposals.) SWRCB Groundwater Permitting Unit Would Expedite Floodwater Recharge Projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4856