The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget assumes reductions to CDFA ’s budget of $11  million ($9.8  million General Fund) authorized by Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12 of the budget act. This includes $8.2  million ($7  million General Fund) in efficiency reductions and $2.8  million General Fund in vacant position reductions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2025 - These include $47  million for dam safety, $15  million for systemwide flood risk reduction, $11  million for flood management, and $5  million in the Urban Streams Restoration Program. (The impacts of the first two of these reductions will be somewhat offset by the new appropriations from Proposition  4.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

Assessing Early Implementation of Urban Water Use Efficiency Requirements

Jan 4, 2024 - The frequency of use of the bonus incentive, the volume of water associated with the bonus incentive, value to urban water suppliers of the bonus incentive, and any implications of the use of the bonus incentive on water use efficiency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4823

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

Jan 13, 2025 - These solutions yielded General Fund savings of $11  billion through 2025 ‑26. The Governor ’s budget reduces this amount by $1.3  billion through 2025 ‑26. The reason for the reduction is the recent voter approval of Proposition  35 (2024), which requires the state to spend less MCO tax money on offsetting General Fund spending and more money on provider rate increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

May 17, 2021 - As shown in Figure  5, the Governor proposes allocating nearly $10  billion of this total to pay down deferred payments from previous years, $5  billion (including $2.1  billion ongoing) for high-poverty schools and districts, nearly $1.4  billion for community colleges, and the remainder (roughly $6  billion) for other K-12 spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2023 - The budget includes a reduction of $11  million in spending authority from the Harbors and Watercraft Fund. This reduction —affecting the Aquatic Invasive Species Program ($5  million) and Boat Launching Facility Grant Program ($6  million) —is intended to help maintain the solvency of the fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4807

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 10, 2022 - These activities are summarized in Figure  11. The largest share of funding over the multiyear period is to support start-up costs for alternative beverage container redemption options, such as reverse vending machines, mobile recycling, and bag drop programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4633

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

Dec 9, 2025 - Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Program SWRCB 5 percent of annual revenues (up to $130 million). Sunsets on June 30, 2030. $130 million annually. Then fourth, remaining funding is subject to legislative appropriation for discretionary purposes. a Chapter 121 of 2025 (SB 840, Lim ón). b No sunset date unless otherwise noted. c Senate Bill 840 requires the
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5097

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 18, 2021 - As shown in Figure  5, the package includes $758  million from the General Fund and $230  million from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) for roughly 30 different programs managed by 18 departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4463

The 2026-27 Budget: Framework for Approaching the Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, and Agriculture Budget

Feb 10, 2026 - However, up to $3  million of the proposed amount is to buy mitigation credits, yet the administration indicates that credits currently are not available for purchase. Therefore, we recommend the Legislature reduce the proposal to $11  million since $3  million may not be urgently needed or  used.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116