The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This represents a net decrease of $63  million (22  percent) compared to estimated 2024-25 spending, due largely to a year-to-year reduction in federal funding for the AmeriCorps program and the phasing out of some limited-term General Fund augmentations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - The state allocated a total of $123.8  million each year from 2021-22 through 2023-24, and $117.1  million in 2024-25. Under current law, the hold will expire and the modified formula would again be used starting in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - The 2021 ‑22 state budget provided $18  million ongoing funding and an additional $5  million one ‑time funding to distribute 37,000 laptops at state prisons by 2024. Laptops are to be distributed in phases across all prisons, with every student participating in postsecondary education each term eligible for a computer, along with people participating in other rehabilitative programming.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The offset from the fund balance includes $5  million that became unrestricted as the budget package reduced the statutorily required trial court emergency reserve from $10  million to $5  million. The budget also reverts up to $50.7  million one-time General Fund provided in prior budgets —$30.1  million from 2022-23 and $20.6  million from 2023- 24 —for various purposes to help address the state ’s budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2023-24 Budget: Financing Approaches for Capital Outlay Projects

Feb 28, 2023 - Assuming a bond carries a 5  percent interest rate, the total cost of paying the debt over a 30-year period is close to $2 for each $1 borrowed —$1 for repaying the amount borrowed and close to $1 for interest.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - At full implementation, this would include 24.8 custody positions, 8 plant operations positions, 5 information technology positions, 2 librarian positions, and 1 position to support community engagement (such as by processing security clearances for volunteers to enter the prison).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986