The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 During the special session called by the Governor, the Legislature added Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 to the 2024-25 Budget Act providing up to $2.5  billion one-time from the General Fund for response and recovery costs related to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Since 2017, the state has approved a total of $141.1  million ($7.5  million General Fund and $133.6  million lease revenue bond authority) to construct a 50 ‑bed mental health crisis facility at CIM.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Instead, community college staff process incarcerated students ’ Promise Grant applications (providing assistance with completing the form, if needed), and the state covers the cost of the foregone revenues with Proposition  98 General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - The growth adjustment would be based on the growth of 2011 realignment revenue provided to the counties. Because the 2011 realignment shifted responsibility for various correctional populations from the state to the counties, it also shifted a portion of sales tax revenue to counties to support this workload.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - Specifically, the budget provides $37.3  million one time to backfill an ongoing decline in a subset of various fine and fee revenues collected to support trial court operations. (This backfill maintains funding provided by these fines and fees at the 2013-14 revenue collection level.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2023-24 Budget: Financing Approaches for Capital Outlay Projects

Feb 28, 2023 - As such, under either approach, investors would include the lease revenue bonds as part of the state ’s debt portfolio in their assessment of the state ’s overall creditworthiness. Recommendations Consider Shifting to Lease Revenue Bonds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709