CalFacts 2024 [Publication Details]

Dec 2, 2024 - CalFacts presents a wide range of facts and trends about the state's economy, finances, and programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4942

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

Feb 19, 2025 - Chapter  231 directed the Director of the Department of Finance to transfer $2.4  million from the General Fund to CDTFA as a loan to implement this new tax. Chapter  231 also requires that the loan be repaid with collected excise tax revenues, prior to any of the expenditures from the new GVPSS Fund. 2024-25 Budget Package Specified One-Time Allowable Use of California Department of Education (CDE) 2025-26 Allocation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - The 2018 ‑19 budget included $1.3  billion in lease revenue bond authority backed by the General Fund —rather than the SCFCF —to finance ten previously planned projects. This commitment effectively backfilled the $1.4  billion transferred from the SCFCF to the General Fund to help address the state ’s budget condition between 2009 ‑10 and 2017 ‑18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - The budget also included budget bill language authorizing the Department of Finance to transfer additional General Fund to the DNA Identification Fund if revenues deposited into fund decline further and are insufficient to support BFS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

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

Jan 13, 2025 - The 2024 ‑25 budget package assumed that the Department of Finance would reduce state operations expenditures through two unallocated reductions across most state departments. These included (1)  a $1.5  billion ($760  million General Fund) reduction through the permanent and ongoing reduction of 10,000 vacant positions and the associated funding and (2)  a reduction to General Fund operating expenditures of $2.2  billion in 2024 ‑25 and $2.8  billion in 2025 ‑26 and ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2024-25 Budget: County Probation Grants to Support Temporary Increase in the Supervision Population

Feb 20, 2024 - Similar to previous augmentations, the proposed funding would be distributed among counties based on a schedule developed by the Department of Finance. Assessment Proposed Funding Likely Not Needed.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4849

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 9, 2024 - The 2023-24 budget included budget provisional language allowing the Department of Finance (DOF) to authorize an up to $400  million no-interest loan from the LDF to the General Fund to help address the state ’s budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4831

Overview of Juvenile Justice System and Education Services in Juvenile Facilities [Publication Details]

Apr 17, 2023 - Presented to: Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on Public Safety
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4760

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 26, 2022 - Conversion of Jail Construction Financing to General Fund. The budget includes $81.5  million General Fund for the construction of a jail in Fresno County, which was previously approved to be financed with lease revenue bonds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4625

The 2023-24 Budget: County Probation Grants to Support Temporary Increase in the Supervision Population

Feb 23, 2023 - Similar to previous augmentations, the proposed funding would be distributed among counties based on a schedule developed by the Department of Finance. Assessment Proposed Funding Likely Not Needed. Unlike the state prison and parole populations, the administration does not report projections of the statewide PRCS population.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4703