The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - DROS Special Account expenditures routinely exceeded revenues prior to 2019 ‑ 20 —resulting in the decline of the fund balance. To  help ensure sufficient revenues would be available to support BOF workload, Chapter  736 of 2019 (A B  1669 , Bonta) enabled DOJ to increase the DROS fee charged from $19 to $31.19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - Assessment Proposed Project Generally Reasonable … The selection of the new Tracy courthouse is generally reasonable as it is the next project in line to be funded when following the judicial branch ’s 2019 ranked list of facility project needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The 2023-24 Budget: Sexual Assault Evidence Kits Testing Mandate

Feb 27, 2023 - As of September 2019, a standardized SAE kit containing a minimum number of basic components is r equired to be used statewide. State and local agencies are responsible for the costs of purchasing SAE kits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4714

The 2023-24 Budget: Racial and Identity Profiling Mandate

Feb 27, 2023 - Such reporting was to be implemented in waves between 2019 and 2023. Specifically, state law required that such data first be reported by April 2019 from agencies employing 1,000 or more officers ( “Wave 1 ”), by April 2020 from agencies employing 667 to 1,000 officers ( “Wave 2 ”), by April 2022 from agencies employing 334 to 667 officers ( “Wave 3 ”), and by April 2023 from agencies employing less than 334 officers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4715

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - In fall 2019 (the year just before the pandemic), the gap in success rates between in ‑person and correspondence courses was 15  percentage points. The gap shrunk temporarily during the pandemic as success rates for in ‑person courses declined as a result of disruptions to in ‑person  programming.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2024-25 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 23, 2024 - The 2020 ‑21 budget included $11  million in ongoing funding from the TCTF to reflect the additional amount of revenue available to support the program after Chapter  217 of 2019 (AB  330, Gabriel) increased the amount of certain post-judgement civil filing fees that are available to support the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4848

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 22, 2020 - Due to reduced court operations related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the amount of fine and fee revenue collected to support trial court operations in 2019 ‑20 declined more than originally estimated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4288

The 2020-21 Budget: Criminal Justice Proposals [Publication Details]

Feb 18, 2020 - This is a net increase of $341 million (2 percent) over the revised 2019‑20 level of spending. General Fund spending is proposed to be $16.2 billion in 2020‑21, which represents an increase of $213 million (1 percent) above the revised 2019‑20 level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4164

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Public Safety Package

Feb 17, 2022 - As shown in Figure  4 , total firearm ‑related deaths increased from 2,925 deaths in 2019 to 3,428  deaths in 2020 —an increase of 503 deaths (or  17  percent). Of  this amount, homicide firearm deaths increased from 1,246  deaths in 2019 to 1,731  deaths in 2020 —an increase of 485  deaths (or 39  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4546

The California State Bar: Assessment of Proposed Disciplinary Case Processing Standards

Jan 6, 2023 - Difficult to Assess Impact of Additional Positions Funded in 2019. The Legislature authorized an increase in the annual license fee beginning in 2019 to support 19 additional OCTC disciplinary staff —6 attorneys, 9 investigators, and 4 support staff.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4655