Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Digital Library Subscription. The state provides $500,000 ongoing funding for digital library subscriptions for incarcerated students at all CDCR prisons. Students have access to research databases, e ‑journals, magazine subscriptions, peer ‑reviewed articles, and e ‑books that can be used to complete course  assignments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Across all of the agreements, the budget assumes that these agreements reduce state departmental costs by $750 million ($370 million General Fund). Agreements Shift General Fund Costs From Retiree Health Prefunding to Pension Liabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Apr 11, 2025 - The marginal cost better captures how much the state saves when one fewer person enters prison, such as savings on food, clothing, and medical care. In contrast, the average cost includes cost s that often are only saved when entire facilities are closed, such as facility or correctional staffing costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Specifically, at a $3.6  million annual cost for SQRC alone, this additional staffing could cost around $100  million annually to implement statewide —particularly notable given the multiyear deficits facing the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - (The net decrease in spending does not reflect growth in employee compensation costs in 2024-25 because such costs are accounted for elsewhere in the budget.) We identify some of the major actions taken in the 2024-25 budget process below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2023-24 Budget: Financing Approaches for Capital Outlay Projects

Feb 28, 2023 - (Over the long term, inflation will erode the real cost of these payments, which are fixed in nominal terms once the bonds are issued, resulting in inflation-adjusted costs of about $1.40 for each $ 1 borrowed.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

Evaluating California's Pursuit of Zero Net Energy State Buildings

Nov 14, 2017 - ZNE Costs and Benefits Likely Vary Across State ‑Owned Buildings. It is important to conduct cost ‑benefit analyses on individual ZNE projects because the costs and benefits of ZNE vary across projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3711

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 20, 2018 - Accordingly, this makes the cost of leasing in the future appear greater than it is likely to be. Low Inflation Rate on State Costs. The administration assumes cost of operating and maintaining state buildings grows at 0.5  percent per year, which is very low considering likely increases in the costs of state staff and equipment due to inflation and other factors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3758

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

Jan 14, 2019 - Shifts Some County IHSS Costs to General Fund, Potentially Addressing Some State ‑County Cost ‑Sharing Issues. The budget proposes a number of changes to the mechanism by which the state provides counties with funding for IHSS costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2020-21 Budget: Debt Service on Infrastructure Bonds

Nov 20, 2019 - This is because we project that General Fund revenues will increase somewhat faster than debt service costs. We assume that the state gradually sells bonds that have been approved by voters or the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4118