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

The 2024-25 Budget: Flood Management Proposals

Feb 26, 2024 - These  particular   projects —also displayed in Figure   3 —are state ‑funded, although one project likely can also draw down $10  million in federal funds from the Bureau of Reclamation. Staffing to Expedite Groundwater Recharge Permits ($1.2   Million Ongoing).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4856

Overview of New Updates to the Cap-and-Invest Program

Dec 9, 2025 - In Figure  2, we display the order in which S B  840 allocates funding to four categories of activities. Specifically, beginning in 2026 ‑27, first priorities for available GGRF funds are the SRA fee backfill, the manufacturing tax exemption, and the Climate Bureau.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5097

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 4

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget package also authorizes nearly 80 new positions across 12 departments to administer Proposition  4-funded programs, as displayed in Figure  2. As shown, the number of new positions range from 13 at the Department of Conservation to one each at the Tahoe Conservancy and California Conservation Corps.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5076

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

Feb 10, 2026 - While the administration acknowledges the risk of a market downturn, it stops short of incorporating the possibility of one into its revenue estimates. Several historically reliable signs suggest the market is overheated and at a high risk of reversing course in the next year or so.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116

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

Mar 18, 2026 - The state added the doubling goal as a narrative water quality objective in the 1995 Bay ‑Delta Plan. Doubling natural production relative to the average annual 1967 ‑1991 baseline would mean nearly 900,000 naturally produced salmon annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

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

Feb 24, 2026 - There also are a number of other refiners in the United States that currently produce RD and could, with the purchase of some ad ditional equipment, be converted to produce SAF in addition to, or instead of, RD.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2025 - Efficiency and Vacant Position Reductions 2025-26 Budget Implements Control Sections First Added in 2024-25. Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12 of the 2024-25 and 2025-26 budget acts directed the Department of Finance (DOF) to identify efficiencies to reduce costs without adverse effects on state services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - Los Angeles RWQCB Required Some Local Governments to Place Trash Receptacles at Transit Stops. As part of its federal Clean Water Act implementation responsibilities, in 2001, the Los Angeles RWQCB designed a stormwater discharge permit requiring that —among other conditions —local governments within its jurisdiction install and maintain trash receptacles at transit stops beginning in 2002.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - First, in April 2021, the Legislature passed a $ 536 m illion “early action ” wildfire resilience package that added $ 2 m illion on a one ‑time basis to CalFire ’s 2020 ‑21 General Fund budget for additional defensible space inspectors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457