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

Dec 9, 2025 - Many of these higher allowance costs likely would be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices for GHG ‑intensive  products. Changes in GGRF Allocations Will Affect Funding for Particular Programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5097

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

Feb 10, 2026 - Most notably, because including state operations expenditures as part of Tier 1 means they receive first priority for available GGRF, adding new activities to this category can have the effect of gradually “crowding out ” other GGRF ‑funded programs and activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

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 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan

Feb 12, 2025 - Some departments also have other forms of reporting already built into their programs. For example, CalFire maintains an incident reporting dashboard, and the Salton Sea Management Program presents updates annually to SWRCB, prepares a yearly report, and mainta ins an online project tracker.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4958

The 2024-25 Budget: Sustainable Funding for the Department of Pesticide Regulation

Mar 5, 2024 - Consider Adding Accountability Measures. We recommend the Legislature consider adding accountability measures as a way to conduct oversight of programmatic expansions and to ensure that funding is helping DPR meet its core objectives.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4873

The 2025-26 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Reauthorization and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Proposals at May Revision

May 19, 2025 - Moreover, if the Legislature does not use GGRF to help ad dress the state ’s budget problems, it will be faced with making even greater reductions to General Fund-supported programs or increasing revenues by a like amount.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5049

The 2024-25 Budget: CalFire—Implementation of a 66-Hour Workweek

Mar 19, 2024 - Second, the joint labor management committee was given relatively broad discretion regarding how to structure implementation of the new provision, but the committee was not even formed until after the MOU was ratified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4886

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Agriculture

Dec 15, 2021 - Instead, the incentives to develop AMMP projects rely on potential revenues from selling value ‑added manure products or cost savings from using products to offset expenditures. Value ‑added manure products include soil amendments and compost made from separated solids.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4483

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