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

Apr 11, 2025 - The Legislature could then determine what portion of the cost of the practice would be covered through the grant by weighing its preference for expanding evidence-based practices against its interest in creating s tate savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Patients are supposed to be transferred to an APP within 72 hours of the referral, but no more than ten days after the referral and can generally stay up to 45 days. Currently, there are 489 APP beds, all of which are in state prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Jan 13, 2020 - The Governor ’s budget includes $ 250  m illion General Fund in 2020 ‑ 21 —with a plan to allocate an additional $ 750  m illion in future years —to establish a new loan program at the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (I ‑Bank).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget package removes both (1)  savings and loans, and (2)  banking or financial business from the list of QBA from tax year 2025 onwards. The administration estimates this change will increase revenues by $330  million in fiscal year 2025-26, decreasing slightly to $270  million by 2028-29.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2019-20 Budget: Deferred Maintenance

Feb 8, 2019 - In developing these lists, departments vary in what types of activities they consider maintenance. For example, some departments have included projects as deferred maintenance that are not traditionally considered as such —for example, energy and water efficiency upgrades and code compliance work.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3929

The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - The budget provides a $17.3  million one-time loan from the School Land Bank Fund (rather than from the General Fund as initially proposed by the Governor) to continue implementation of the California Early Earthquake Warning System, which is a system intended to provide the general public, businesses, and other entities with advance warning of earthquakes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277

Evaluating California's Pursuit of Zero Net Energy State Buildings

Nov 14, 2017 - A mandate for state buildings to be ZNE is likely to be a less cost ‑effective approach to reducing GHG emission reductions than what would otherwise be encouraged through the cap ‑and ‑trade system alone.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3711

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

Feb 28, 2023 - In our view, having clarity about what fund source will be used to support debt service payments is a key component of a lease revenue bond proposal. Importantly, without this level of detail, whether t he fund has sufficient capacity to support the debt service is unclear.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—Deferred Maintenance

May 15, 2018 - Prior to making future allocations of funds from the above deferred maintenance account, we recommend the Legislature seek information from the administration regarding what factors led to the accumulation of deferred maintenance at individual departments, as well as what longer-term plans departments have developed to ensure that appropriate ongoing maintenance is sustained so that deferred maintenance does not continue to accumulate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3841

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

Feb 10, 2016 - The next question the Legislature will want to consider is over what time frame it would like to attain its enrollment target for Merced. Traditionally, the state has expanded campuses on an incremental basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3349