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

Feb 19, 2025 - These funds would be allocated to school districts based on their share of statewide enrollment in grades 7 to 12. The budget package also required school districts to certify by July 2029 that a certain portion of their staff who work directly with students in grades 7 to 12 have received youth behavioral health training at least once.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

Retail Theft in California: Looking Back at a Decade of Change

Jun 12, 2025 - Specifically, the number of people incarcerated in either state prison or county jail declined by about 14,000 (7  percent) between 2014 and 2015 and by about 44,000  (22  percent) between 2019 and 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The  June 2024 budget package committed to a total of $28  billion in budget solutions for 2025 ‑26, which included, $12  billion in spending ‑related solutions and nearly $16  billion in all other solutions, including $5.5  billion in temporary revenue increases and a $7  billion withdrawal from the state ’s rainy day fund, the Budget Stabilization Account (BSA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Figure  7 shows persistence rates for several cohorts that started their CCC education at CDCR. On average, incarcerated students have notably lower persistence rates compared with the average for CCC students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2024-25 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 23, 2024 - Specifically, this includes $17  million in 2018 ‑19, $7  million in 2020 ‑21, $17  million in 2021 ‑22, and $17  million in 2022 ‑23. Shriver Program. 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 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - Put another way, $12  billion  of spending in the May Revision is attributable to reserve withdrawals and borrowing from 2020 (see Figure  7). Figure 7 Governor Still Uses Budget Solutions Despite Historic Revenue Growth Budget Solutions From 2020 Maintained in 2021 May Revision (In Billions) Reserve Withdrawals Make Budget Stabilization Account withdrawal $7.8 Make Safety Net Reserve withdrawal 0.5
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

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

Feb 22, 2024 - Figure  7 shows that, in subsequent years, COVID ‑19 ‑related spending  has  declined  significantly. For  example,  the 2023 ‑24 Budget Act provided $97  million one ‑time from the General Fund for CDCR ’s COVID ‑19 response, of which the department estimates it will spend about  $54  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 16, 2023 - The budget package also requires BSCC to oversee $7 .6  million in grant funds allocated through Control Section 19.563 to local governments for various purposes generally related to public safety. (For more information on Control Section 19.563, please see the “Targeted Legislative Augmentations ” section of our Other Provisions spending plan post.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4805

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - However, average real base pay remains more than 7 percent higher than it was in the early 2000s when the state last experienced significant challenges recruiting correctional officers. (As we discuss below, turnover may be contributing to the decline in the average base pay.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

Potential Impacts of Recent State Asset Forfeiture Changes

Jan 6, 2020 - As shown in Figure  7, both the value of assets seized and the amount distributed generally increased until 2016, before declining in 2017 (the year in which S B  443 was implemented). Specifically, the value of assets seized declined by 15  p ercent between 2016 and 2017 (from $49. 5  m illion to $42. 3  m illion), while the amount distributed declined by 11  p ercent (from $37. 9  m illion to $33. 7  m illion).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4128