The 2025-26 Budget: Update on Implementation of New Firearm and Ammunition Tax

Feb 19, 2025 - Even if revenues perform better than expected, it is still unlikely that revenues will exceed $100  million. Under this scenario, CalVIP would receive its full allocation, but CDE would receive only some funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - These projects were categorized into five groups —and ranked within each group —in the following descending priority order: 18 immediate need projects ($2.3  billion), 29 critical need projects ($7.9  billion), 15 high need projects ($1.3  billion), 9 medium need projects ($1.6  billion), and 9 low need projects ($100  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 9, 2024 - Governor ’s Proposal Additional Up to $100  Million Loan From LDF to General Fund. The Governor ’s 2024-25 budget proposes budget provisional language allowing DOF to authorize an additional, up to $100  million no-interest loan from the LDF to the General Fund subject to 30-day legislative notification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4831

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Justice [Publication Details]

Feb 9, 2024 - This post provides an overview of the Governor’s 2024-25 proposed funding levels for the Department of Justice. It also provides our assessment and recommendations on a proposed $100 million loan from the state Litigation Deposit Fund to the state General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4831

The 2024-25 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 22, 2024 - The analysis calculated, for each prison, the percent of the population that could have one of the above assignments if the prison were occupied at 120,  110, and 100  percent of its design capacity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Of these students, 418 (2.7  percent) had already earned 100 or more CCC units. Just over 100 of these students had already accumulated 150 or more units. Furthermore, of the 15,500  incarcerated CCC students enrolled in 2022 ‑23, 905 (5.8  percent) already had earned an associate degree in a prior year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 26, 2022 - The budget package requires civil assessment revenues (about $100 million annually) be deposited into the state General Fund instead of the Trial Court Trust Fund. Th e budget package also changed state law to reduce the amount of civil assessment that could be imposed from a maximum of $300 to a maximum of $100.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4625

The 2023-24 Budget: Office of the State Public Defender

Feb 15, 2023 - Given that OSPD has under 100 employees, it might be beneficial to wait for CalHR to issue the statew ide plan before OSPD proceeds with its department-specific efforts to ensure they are consistent with the statewide plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4680

The 2024-25 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 23, 2024 - Second, the EAF Program provides grants to more than 100 legal services providers (such as Legal Aid) across the state to support legal services or assistance to low-income or self-represented people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4848

Overview and Update on the Prison Receivership

Nov 8, 2023 - Specifically, CDCR staffing of health care positions has increased from about 3 positions for every 100  people in prison in 2005 ‑06 to about 15  positions for every 100 people in 2021 ‑22. Exiting the Receivership—Steps Specified by Federal Court Several orders have been issued by the Plata court outlining the benchmarks that must be met for the state to take full responsibility for prison medical care back from the Receiver.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4813