The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - Since the Bay ‑Delta Plan ’s original adoption in 1978, SWRCB has updated it several times —in 1991, 1995, 2006, and 2018. The last comprehensive update occurred in 1995 and largely guides management today.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2026-27 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 23, 2026 - After finding the state in violation, the court appointed a Special Master in 1995 to monitor the state ’s progress. The court and the Special Master oversaw the state ’s efforts to fully implement the court ‑ordered remedies necessary to bring the delivery of prison mental health care into compliance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

The 2025-26 Budget: May Revision Trailer Bill Proposals on the Delta Conveyance Project and Water Quality Control Plans

May 27, 2025 - The last meaningful and comprehensive update of the Bay-Delta WQCP (Bay-Delta Plan) plan occurred in 1995, despite acknowledgments by SWRCB that the current plan is not adequately protecting beneficial uses and the fact that native fish populations have dropped precipitously.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5053

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Newsom federal court case, which ruled in 1995 that CDCR was not providing constitutionally adequate mental health care. Most people in prison with a mental health need can be treated in an outpatient setting, meaning they live in a prison housing unit and receive regular mental health treatment but do not require 24‑hour care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

UC Merced at 20: Campus Developments and Key State-Level Takeaways

Nov 7, 2024 - In the decade prior to the opening of UC Merced to undergraduate students (1995 ‑2004), public and private high school graduates in the San Joaquin Valley accounted for 4.9  percent of UC ’s resident freshman class.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

Proposition 33 [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2024 - Second, rent control cannot apply to any housing built on or after February 1, 1995. Third, rent control laws generally cannot tell landlords what they can charge a new renter when first moving in. Instead, rent control can only limit how much landlo rds increase rent for existing renters.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=33&year=2024

The 2023-24 Budget: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 16, 2023 - This brief provides our analysis of the Governor’s 2023-24 budget proposals related to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4686

Local rent control laws. [Ballot]

Feb 10, 2023 - Second, rent control ca nnot apply to any newly built housing completed on or after February 1, 1995. Third, rent control laws cannot tell landlords what they can charge a new renter when first moving in.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2022-008

The 2022-23 Budget: State Water Resources Control Board—Bay-Delta Plan Update

Jan 31, 2022 - While the overall plan received some updates in 2006, the last major update was in 1995. SWRCB has been in the process of developing new updates to the plan since 2009. In 2018, the board adopted Phase I of these new updates, which includes new water quality flow objectives for the lower San  Joaquin River and its tributaries (the Stanislaus, Tuolumne, and Merced Rivers), as well as updated salinity objectives for the South Delta.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4506

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - A key strategy for reducing home losses during wildfires is for homeowners to maintain an area free of excess or dead vegetation around their homes, known as defensible space.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457