The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Governor ’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation The 2024-25 budget package established the Governor ’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI) as part of a reorganization of the former Governor ’s Office of Planning and Research.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Apr 11, 2025 - These payments would determine each county ’s total SB  678 grant award. Below, we provide additional details about each of the proposed formula ’s payments. Performance Payment. The performance payment compares a county ’s most recent annual county felony supervision failure-to-prison rates with the county ’s average failure-to-prison rates in 2021, 2022 and 2023 —known as the baseline rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

Feb 25, 2025 - New Bachelor ’s Degree Program. The administration has not provided data showing a demand for additional bachelor ’s degree program capacity systemwide. Accordingly, it is unclear whether adding a bachelor ’s degree program at SQRC would simply siphon some of the roughly 400 bachelor ’s degree students off of existing bachelor
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Feb 26, 2025 - These declines are driven by the administration ’s estimates that the prison population reduction attributable to Proposition  47 will decline by 3,357 (88  percent) over the period. This primarily reflects the administration ’s projections that Proposition  36 will significantly reduce the impact of Proposition  47 on the prison population.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The budget includes an up to $130  million one-time, no-interest loan from the UCL Fund to the General Fund in 2024-25 to help address the state ’s budget problem. (UCL revenues generally consist of the state ’s share of litigation proceeds from cases related to unlawful, unfair, or fraudulent business practices, as well as false or misleading advertising.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Most prisons have a limited number of classrooms, which hampers CDCR ’s and CCC ’s ability to offer additional in ‑person courses. A lack of data, however, precludes the Legislature from determining if existing CDCR space is being used efficiently and if additional classroom space is warranted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

Feb 28, 2023 - As such, under either approach, investors would include the lease revenue bonds as part of the state ’s debt portfolio in their assessment of the state ’s overall creditworthiness. Recommendations Consider Shifting to Lease Revenue Bonds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709