The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Allocations in the 2025-26 budget included $13  million in 2025-26 for the OES California Wildfire Mitigation Grant Program, which provides financial assistance for wildfire resilience renovations. The budget reflects a corresponding reduction of $13  million General Fund that had originally been budgeted for the program in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Jan 14, 2019 - The Governor ’s budget proposes to further increase CalWORKs grants by 13. 1  p ercent, which would raise grant levels to 50  p ercent of FPL for a family of three. The proposal assumes the grant increase would go into effect October 1, 2019 and cost $ 348  m illion in 2019 ‑20.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Since 2017, the state has approved a total of $141.1  million ($7.5  million General Fund and $133.6  million lease revenue bond authority) to construct a 50 ‑bed mental health crisis facility at CIM.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Feb 28, 2023 - Taxable bonds are projected to have about 7  percent interest rates in fall 2023 —or 1.35  percent higher than tax-exempt bonds. As a result, the annual debt service savings on these taxable bonds is about $5  million more than tax-exempt bonds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 20, 2018 - Legislature Funded Initial Projects in 2016 ‑17 and 2017 ‑18. The 2016 ‑17 and 2017 ‑18 Budget Acts included about $870  million in funding —mostly from lease revenue bonds —for the O Street and new Natural Resources Buildings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3758

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—State Project Infrastructure Fund

May 14, 2018 - Legislature Funded Initial Projects in 2016 ‑17 and 2017 ‑18. The 2016 ‑17 Budget Act and 2017 ‑18 Budget Act included about $870  million in funding —mostly from lease revenue bonds —for the O Street and new Resources Buildings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3840

Implementing AB 900's Prison Construction and Rehabilitation Initiatives [Publication Details]

May 14, 2009 - Implementing AB 900's Prison Construction and Rehabilitation Initiatives [Publication Details] Implementing AB 900's Prison Construction and Rehabilitation Initiatives Format: HTML Description: We examine the steps that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has taken to implement Chapter 7, Statutes of 2007 (AB 900, Solorio) which authorized a total
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2063

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

Jan 13, 2020 - This is because they attribute the pattern to partnerships, which are taxed under the personal income tax, changing to corporations in response to 2017 federal tax changes. This assumption is plausible, but there currently is limited evidence to support it.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2020-21 Budget: Debt Service on Infrastructure Bonds

Nov 20, 2019 - Our projections do not include any additional debt service costs for new bonds that might be authorized by the voters or the Legislature during the forecast period, such as Proposition  13, a $15  billion general obligation bond for schools scheduled for the March  2020 election.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4118

Evaluating California's Pursuit of Zero Net Energy State Buildings

Nov 14, 2017 - (For more information on the cap ‑and ‑trade program, see our February 2017 r eport The 2017‑ 18 Budget: Cap‑and‑Trade.) LAO Assessment We find that a mandate for state buildings to be ZNE is not a necessary or cost ‑effective way for the state to achieve its GHG reduction goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3711