The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 10, 2025 - Eliminates Intent to Restore Zero-Emission School Bus Funding. The June 2023 budget reduced funding for the Zero-Emission School Bus and Infrastructure Program but expressed the Legislature ’s intent to provide additional funding in the future, including a $500  million appropriation in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

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

Jan 13, 2025 - The state constitution has a balanced budget requirement, which means the balance of the SFEU must be set above zero for the upcoming fiscal year. Any level above zero is up to the discretion of the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2026-27 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 19, 2025 - The 2026-27 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges 1 1 a Excludes non ‑tax revenues and transfers, which do not affect the calculation of the minimum guarantee. b This decline is deemed to be zero for the purpose of calculating the guarantee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - CalEPA = California Environmental Protection Agency; CalFire = California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection; CalRecycle = California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery; CARB = California Air Resources Board; ZEV = zero ‑emission vehicle; CCC = California Conservation Corps; CEC = California Energy Commission; CNRA = California Natural Resources Agency; DFW =
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432/7

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - The Legislature can choose to set the SFEU balance at any level above zero and so our Fiscal Outlook did not assume a specific balance. (Recent budgets have enacted SFEU balances around $2  billion to $4  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98

Oct 24, 2022 - Establishes New Grant Program to Fund Zero-Emission School Buses. The budget provides $1.5  billion for one-time grants to support the adoption of zero-emission school buses. Trailer legislation makes these funds available in installments of $300  million per year beginning in 2023-24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4641

The 2022-23 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor's May Revision

May 16, 2022 - In contrast, the Proposition  98 Reserve has increased from zero in 2019 ‑20 to $9.5   billion —or nearly 9  percent of school and community college funding —under the Governor ’s May Revision estimates for  2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4598

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 28, 2023 - Reduces Previous Funding for Zero-Emission School Buses. The June 2022 budget established a $1.5  billion program administered by the California Air Resources Board and the California Energy Commission to fund zero-emission school buses and related infrastructure (such as charging stations).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4818

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - As of December 2024, DDS serves about 380,000 Lanterman ‑eligible individuals and another 10,000 children ages zero through four who are provisionally eligible. California Early Intervention Services Act Ensures Services for Eligible Infants and Toddlers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

The 2022-23 Budget: Green School Bus Grants

Feb 10, 2022 - (The au thorizing legislation allows the program to fund any type of zero ‑emission school bus, but battery powered electric buses are the only technology currently available to meet this requirement.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4525