The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 16, 2025 - New spending includes $53.1  million from MVA on a one-time basis and 90 temporary positions to complete the vehicle registration phase of the DXP information technology (IT) project. This large project also received one-time funding allocations in 2024-25 and prior years, and will need subsequent appropriations to complete forthcoming phases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5077

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - CHP receives roughly 60  percent of the MVA revenues ($3  billion) annually, with most of the remainder supporting activities at the Department of Motor Vehicles. Growth in CHP ’s expenditures, however, has been outpacing the MVA ’s revenue increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Transportation

Sep 10, 2024 - The budget includes $14  million (just over $13  million from GGRF and $279,000 from Proposition  1A bond funds) on an ongoing basis and authority to hire 67 state staff to replace work currently undertaken by consultants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4925

The 2025-26 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 12, 2025 - Other actions provided longer ‑term solutions, including (1)  ending a previous practice of transferring about $90  million annually from MVA to the General Fund, (2)  authorizing vehicle registration fees to be adjusted annually based on the percent change in the California Consumer Price Index to account for inflation, (3)  shifting certain programs from MVA to
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4961

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Reflecting these higher revenue estimates, the administration ’s estimates of constitutionally required General Fund spending on K ‑14 education is $4.7  billion higher than our November estimates. This partially offsets the revenue increase described above, deteriorating the budget ’s bottom line.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - This reduces the size of the budget  problem. $3   Billion in Higher School and Community College Spending. Reflecting these higher revenue estimates, the administration ’s estimates of constitutionally required General Fund spending on K ‑14 education is about $2.6  billion higher than our November estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - The estimate of the amount owed to K-14 education could change substantially in the coming years as a result of changes in revenue estimates and legislative decisions. Governor Includes Administrative and Proposed Statutory Changes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Sep 29, 2022 - The budget includes a total of $53  million from the General Fund to plan, design, and construct 14 new area offices and other facilities. Four of these projects were previously approved by the Legislature, but require additional funds due to recent increases in construction costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4628

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 1, 2021 - California Highway Patrol The budget provides $2.8  billion to fund CHP, an increase of $346  million (14  percent) compared to 2020 ‑21 revised spending estimates. The increase mainly is due to short-term employee compensation reductions enacted in 2020 ‑21 and several one-time capital outlay expenditures in 2021 ‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4458

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - Due to increases in the minimum guarantee over the 2020 ‑21 through 2022 ‑23 period (see nearby box), the state has $17.7  billion available for new spending on K ‑14  programs. The Governor ’s budget proposes to allocate this funding for an array of existing programs and more than a dozen new initiatives.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492