The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Office of Emergency Services The budget provides $4.5  billion for the Governor ’s Office of Emergency Services (OES), primarily from federal funds and the General Fund. This amount represents a decrease of $4.2  billion (48  percent) from the revised 2024-25 level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Jan 13, 2020 - Operating Deficit Emerges Assuming Suspensions Do Not Take Effect. As shown in Figure  4, the operating surplus under the Governor ’s budget is roughly $ 400  m illion in 2023 ‑24. This assumes, however, that the suspensions take effect, reducing General Fund spending by $2. 2  b illion in that year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

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

The 2019-20 Budget: Deferred Maintenance

Feb 8, 2019 - Some departments have identified specific projects they intend to support with the proposed funding, while other departments have not yet identified projects, and it is unclear when they plan to do so.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3929

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - (The unrestricted fund balance of the TCTF is the portion of the fund balance that is not set aside for particular purposes, such as emergency reserves.) The offset from the fund balance includes $5  million that became unrestricted as the budget package reduced the statutorily required trial court emergency reserve from $10  million to $5  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

Ten Years Later: Progress Towards Expending the 2006 Bond Funds

Jan 3, 2017 - In other cases, multiple funding rounds are necessary because funds are not spent by their initial recipients (because projects come in under budget or do not move forward) and must be reallocated through new funding rounds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3519

The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - This decrease is primarily a result of the expiration of funding provided to the department on a one-time basis in 2019 ‑20 as a result of the COVID-19 emergency. Community Resilience During Power Shutdowns.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277

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

Apr 11, 2025 - As a result, the maintenance payment do es not support the original goals of the program. Growth Adjustment Not Tied to Actual Growth in County Costs and Would Have Less Oversight. We also find that the maintenance payment ’s growth adjustment is problematic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Some faculty do not feel comfortable or do not want to work inside a prison. In addition, many prisons are in rural areas of the state with relatively small pools of individuals who are qualified to teach postsecondary courses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Most people in prison with a mental health need can be treated in an outpatient setting, meaning they live in a prison housing unit and receive regular mental health treatment but do not require 24‑hour care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986