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

Feb 25, 2025 - It is possible that after conducting its stakeholder engagement process, it will determine that some of those programs represent a higher priority for expansion than adding a new bachelor ’s degree program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 During the special session called by the Governor, the Legislature added Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 to the 2024-25 Budget Act providing up to $2.5  billion one-time from the General Fund for response and recovery costs related to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions [Publication Details]

Oct 16, 2025 - The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5081

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Given that the results of the recommended data and studies have the potential to notably improve legislative decision ‑making on prison postsecondary education policy and programs moving forward, we believe the added administrative workload is warranted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

Apr 11, 2025 - The BSCC budget would have to increase to account for its new duties related to the grant. We estimate that this could require a few million dollars annually. This could be paid for by correspondingly reducing the amount available for grants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

Feb 26, 2025 - We find this assumption causes the administration ’s methodology to overestimate the effect of Proposition  36 in two ways: Does Not Account for Key Features of Treatment-Mandated Felony. The administration ’s estimate assumes that the same number of people who were committed to prison for drug possession prior to Proposition  47 would again be committed to prison under Proposition  36.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - (The net decrease in spending does not reflect growth in employee compensation costs in 2024-25 because such costs are accounted for elsewhere in the budget.) We identify some of the major actions taken in the 2024-25 budget process below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924