The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Proposals

Mar 19, 2026 - The functions that LCI performs were part of OPR until that office underwent restructuring in 2024 and split into two new offices: the Governor ’s Office of Service and Community Engagement (GO-SERVE) and LCI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

The 2026-27 Budget: Permitting Support at the State Water Resources Control Board

Mar 2, 2026 - Supreme Court Decision in 2023 Narrowed Federal Jurisdiction … A 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision — Sackett v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ( Sackett ) —narrowed the definition of WOTUS. The ruling limits federal jurisdiction to relatively permanent bodies of water and to wetlands that have a continuous surface connection to WOTUS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5144

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Elimination of State Environmental Positions

Feb 17, 2026 - Our State Spending Plan posts from 2024 and 2025 provide more information about this effort to realize budgetary savings and the sequence of events. Legislature Was Given More Time to Consider About 1,000 Residual Positions That the Governor Had Proposed to Eliminate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5124

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - Introduction In July 2024, the Legislature approved Chapter  83 (S B  867 , Allen), authorizing a $10  billion bond measure entitled the “Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024. ” Largely designed to increase the state ’s resilience to the impacts of climate change, the measure was placed on the statewide ballot as Proposition  4 and subsequently approved by voters in November 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5115

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan [Publication Details]

Feb 10, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan [Publication Details] Description: This publication assesses the Governor’s proposed 2026-27 spending plan for Proposition 4, the $10 billion climate bond approved by voters in November 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5115

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - According to estimates from the Delta Stewardship Council, California achieved only about 10 percent of the annual target on average between 2018 and 2023. Recognition That Rivers Need More Water to Support Native Fish.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2026-27 Budget: Framework for Approaching the Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, and Agriculture Budget

Feb 10, 2026 - Funding for this program was deferred from 2023 ‑24 to 2026 ‑27 as a budget solution adopted as part of the 2024 ‑25 Budget Act . However, the state ’s budget condition has not materially improved, similar funding for other programs approved through past climate packages has been eliminated or reduced, this program does not address pressing health and safety needs, and program implementation is still in the planning stages and not yet underway.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116

The 2026-27 Budget: Cap-and-Invest Expenditure Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - Notably, however, the administration does not propose to fund any of the programs that were anticipated to receive out‑year monies in the 2024‑25 GGRF expenditure plan, such as CERIP or transit, in either 2026‑27 or future years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Tax Credit Proposal

Feb 24, 2026 - These pressures are expected to grow as the state works to further increase ZEV adoption to meet its ambitious climate goals, as we discuss in our 2023 report, Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Implications for State Transportation Funding and Programs .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139