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

Feb 25, 2025 - CDCR Also Continuing to Operate Excess APP and ICF Bed Capacity. As shown in Figure   4 , CDCR is also operating excess capacity in other types of inpatient beds, including 205 APPs, 327  ICFs at both men ’s prisons and state hospitals, 32  APP/ICF beds at women ’s prisons, and 13 APP/ICF beds for the condemned population.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - That said, trends in stops for moving violations can give us a reasonable starting point for understanding changes in traffic enforcement activities over time. Figure  24 displays trends in the total number of stops for moving violations by CHP and by the state ’s seven largest local law enforcement agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - A large portion of the General Fund support is used to support the Armed and Prohibited Persons System (APPS) enforcement teams, which seize firearms from people prohibited from owning or possessing them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government

Oct 22, 2025 - Trailer bill legislation also requires a homeless shelter to prominently display information about occupants ’ rights and the process to report a complaint about a substandard shelter. Civil Rights Department Funding for Another Year of Statewide Reporting Hotline.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care

Feb 23, 2026 - Those departments may seek increases in compensation to ensure their pay remains competitive with CDCR —potentially adding still more costs to the state. Extending Licensing Exemptions to Out‑of‑State Licensed Providers State Licensing Policies Limit Pool of Potential Providers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5134

Property tax rules for inherited property. [Ballot]

Oct 22, 2025 - The special rules for vacation homes and business properties only app lied to the first $1  million of combined property value. Proposition  19 narrowed these special rules. The rules now only apply to two types of properties: (1)  homes that a child or grandchild uses as a primary residence and (2)  farms.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-017

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

Feb 10, 2026 - As displayed in Figure 2, the administration proposes to use $615 million of the $750 million in additional revenues to support the following activities, thus leaving a projected GGRF fund balanceof$135 million at the end of 2026‑27: CalFire Backfill.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

Insurance regulation. [Ballot]

Nov 10, 2025 - These laws also try to stop insurers from charging much higher prices than needed for them to stay in business. Several major parts of these laws were put in place by voters with the passage of P roposition  103 in 1988.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-020

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs $104 1% a TANF carry ‑forward is a non ‑add item for display purposes only. This amount is included in Federal TANF block grant funds. b Less than 0.5 percent. TANF = Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

Time limits, environmental reviews, and judicial reviews for certain types of infrastructure projects. [Ballot]

Dec 10, 2025 - Third, the measure would allow the court to temporarily stop any part of an essential project t hat posed a public safety risk (until the issue was addressed), but would not allow the court to stop the project overall.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-023