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

Feb 19, 2025 - Figure 1 Distribution Priority for Excise Tax Revenue Funding Priority Order Maximum Annual Amount (In Millions) Department $75.0 BSCC California Violence Intervention and Prevention (CalVIP) Grant Program which provides competitive grants for violence prevention activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

The 2025-26 Budget: Update on Implementation of New Firearm and Ammunition Tax [Publication Details]

Feb 19, 2025 - In this post, we provide an update and comments on the implementation of a new firearm and ammunition tax that went into effect beginning July 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4970

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

Retail Theft in California: Looking Back at a Decade of Change

Jun 12, 2025 - Retail Theft Restraining Orders. Chapter  169 of 2024 (A B  3209 , Berman) authorizes courts to issue criminal protective orders prohibiting people from entering retail establishment where they have previously committed crimes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

The 2026-27 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 23, 2026 - Adding More Licensing Exemptions for Those Who Work at Prisons. Currently, providers with out ‑of ‑state licenses are required to obtain a California license to work in CDCR, though some may use their out ‑of ‑state license on a temporary basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - This is due to the complex formula that dictates the order in which special funds receive criminal fine and fee revenue that is collected. Given the fund ’s priority order in this formula, it is not certain that it would receive the expected revenues as funds with a higher ‑priority order could receive the bulk of any additional revenue collected.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

The 2026-27 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 11, 2026 - These projects were categorized into five groups —and ranked within each group —in the following descending priority order: 18 immediate need projects ($2.3  billion), 29 critical need projects ($7.9  billion), 15 high need projects ($1.3  billion), 9 medium need projects ($1.6  billion), and 9  low need projects ($100  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5113

Overview and Update on the Prison Receivership

Nov 8, 2023 - An estimated $194  million was added to the state budget from 2002 ‑03 through 2006 ‑07 to address the problems identified in prison medical care. However, upon further review of the state ’s performance, the federal court found that the state had failed to comply with its orders.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4813

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 24, 2025 - The budget includes a $214  million one-time reduction in General Fund support for trial court operations in 2025-26 in order to reflect the availability of property tax revenue in accordance with Control Section 15.45 and Section 2578 of the Education Code.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

The 2024-25 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 22, 2024 - Prisons Subject to Court ‑Ordered Population Limit. State ‑owned and operated prisons are subject to a federal court order related to prison overcrowding that limits the total number of people they can house to 137.5  percent of their collective design capacity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852