The 2026-27 Budget: Permitting Support at the State Water Resources Control Board

Mar 2, 2026 - The 2024-25 State Budget Provided Resources to the Water Boards to Respond to New Workload. The 2024-25 budget provided $5  million on an ongoing basis from the Waste Discharge Permit Fund and 26 new positions for the water boards to support the water quality permitting and enforcement work that previously was handled directly by the federal government or under federal authorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5144

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Elimination of State Environmental Positions

Feb 17, 2026 - This action reflected intent from the 2024-25 budget agreement, however, it achieved far less savings —only about one-quarter —than originally envisioned once the administration put forth department-specific reduction proposals (rather than nonspecific aggregate estimates).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5124

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

Oct 16, 2025 - Efficiency and Vacant Position Reductions 2025-26 Budget Implements Control Sections First Added in 2024-25. Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12 of the 2024-25 and 2025-26 budget acts directed the Department of Finance (DOF) to identify efficiencies to reduce costs without adverse effects on state services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

The 2026-27 Budget: Cap-and-Invest Expenditure Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - Notably, however, the administration does not propose to fund any of the programs that were anticipated to receive out‑year monies in the 2024‑25 GGRF expenditure plan, such as CERIP or transit, in either 2026‑27 or future years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

The 2025-26 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Expenditure Plan

Feb 12, 2025 - Specifically, DOF projected 2024 ‑25 auction prices of about $38  per allowance, but actual prices at the first two quarterly auctions of the fiscal year were roughly $31. Accordingly, as shown in Figure  4 , GGRF revenues in 2024 ‑25 have been somewhat lower than the administration ’s projections last spring that formed the basis of the 2024 ‑25 Budget Act ’s GGRF spending package.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4960

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - This amount was approved via three different 2025 budget actions: (1) $181  million provided through Chapter  2 of 2025 (A B  100 , Gabriel) (these funds were available for departments to spend during the final few months of 2024 ‑25), (2) $2.9  million through Chapter  5 of 2025 (A B  102 , Gabriel), and (3) $3.3  billion through Chapter  104 of 2025 (S B  105 , Wiener).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5115

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Sep 12, 2024 - The 2024 ‑25 budget shifts the funding for this program to GGRF beginning in 2024 ‑25. Nature-Based Activities Figure  10 displays several modifications the 2024 ‑25 budget makes to planned funding for nature-based activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4928

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Savings Proposals Generates $1.6 Billion School and Community College Settle‑Up Obligation in 2024‑25. The Governor’s budget proposes providing $1.6 billion less in total funding for schools and community colleges than the estimated constitutional minimum funding level for 2024‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Feb 10, 2026 - In 2024 ‑25, the state began to reduce its firefighter duty week from a 72 ‑hour workweek to a 66 ‑hour workweek, consistent with a 2022 memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the state and the CalFire firefighters ’ union.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116