The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This is a net increase of $5  million (3  percent) over the revised 2024-25 level. (This does not reflect some adjustments related to Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12 of the 2024-25 and 2025-26 budgets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice The 2024-25 California Spending Plan Judiciary and Criminal Justice The 2024-25 budget provides $17.8  billion from the General Fund for judicial and criminal justice programs, including support for program operations and capital outlay projects, as shown in Figure  1.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Apr 11, 2025 - This is $10.4  million (8.9  percent) more than the 2024-25 amount. Figure  2 provides an example of how a county grant award would be calculated. New Methodology for Calculating State Savings Per Person Diverted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 26, 2025 - This means that the $88.3  million in state savings estimated to occur in 2024-25 and reflected in the 2025-26 Governor ’s budget as a transfer from the General Fund to the SNSF is likely underestimated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Feb 25, 2025 - CDCR needs 341  MHCBs systemwide in 2025 ‑26, but it is proposing to operate 449   MHCBs —an excess of 109 MHCBs (84 at men ’s prisons and 25  at women ’s prisons). Furthermore, CDCR ’s MHCB needs are projected to decline by 25  additional beds by June of 2029.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Feb 28, 2023 - For example, at projected interest rates in fall 2023, the Governor ’s proposal to use $491  million cash for certain capital outlay projects avoids about $42  million in annual debt service payments over the next 25 years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Currently, 80 community colleges —including all 25 colleges providing instruction to students at CDCR —receive a grant from this program. (The state also provides $15  million ongoing Proposition  98 General Fund for students in county juvenile correctional facilities for similar purposes.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913