The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - To help address the state budget shortfall, the budget package includes a reduction of $15  million in one-time General Fund that had been provided in a prior year for the Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Apr 11, 2025 - (Hereafter, we refer to this version as the modified formula.) The modified formula was put on hold in 2021-22 through 2024-25, again due to concerns that other factors —such as the COVID-19 pandemic —would cause awards to artificially fluctuate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - Note: Detail may not total due to rounding. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation The budget provides $14.3  billion (mostly from the General Fund) for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Feb 26, 2025 - Recommendation Direct Administration to Address Flaws in Proposition  47 Savings Estimate in the May Revision. We recommend that the Legislature direct the administration in spring budget hearings to address the flaws with its methodology for estimating the savings attributable to Proposition  47 in the May Revision.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Feb 25, 2025 - CDCR needs 341  MHCBs systemwide in 2025 ‑26, but it is proposing to operate 449   MHCBs —an excess of 109 MHCBs (84 at men ’s prisons and 25  at women ’s prisons). Furthermore, CDCR ’s MHCB needs are projected to decline by 25  additional beds by June of 2029.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - In addition, as part of the May Revision, the Governor proposed provisional language to provide the department with $10.2  million in special fund resources to implement the proposal upon enactment of the legislation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Currently, 80 community colleges —including all 25 colleges providing instruction to students at CDCR —receive a grant from this program. (The state also provides $15  million ongoing Proposition  98 General Fund for students in county juvenile correctional facilities for similar purposes.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

Feb 10, 2016 - The 2015 –16 budget set an expectation that UC enroll 5,000 more resident undergraduate students in 2016 –17 than in 2014 –15 . The 2015 –16 budget made a $25  million augmentation contingent upon meeting this enrollment expectation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3349

The 2014-15 Budget: A Review of the 2014 California Five-Year Infrastructure Plan [Publication Details]

Feb 10, 2014 - The 2014-15 Budget: A Review of the 2014 California Five-Year Infrastructure Plan [Publication Details] The 2014-15 Budget: A Review of the 2014 California Five-Year Infrastructure Plan Format: HTML Description: In this report, we review California’s Five-Year Infrastructure Plan, the first statewide infrastructure plan released by the administration since 2008.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2916

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

Feb 9, 2016 - Consistent with AB 1656, this plan should outline a course of action for the next 25 years. The plan should also provide options on how to start and sequence the renovation and construction of office buildings and identify the order in which the administration proposes addressing state office buildings, consistent with the scope of the Planning Study that the administration proposed in 2014 –15 .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3347