The 2025-26 Budget: California Military Department—STARBASE Classroom Building

Feb 20, 2025 - The total cost of the project has been revised from $1.7  million to $6.3  million General Fund, which includes preliminary plans ($68,000), working drawings ($787,000), and construction ($5,468,000).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4976

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate

Mar 19, 2025 - As proposed, the Real Estate Fund was projected to end 2025-26 with a negative fund balance, as total spending ($74.9  million, which includes expenditures related to statewide administrative costs and BCSH) would exceed total resources ($73.2  million) by about $1.7  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5019

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - Had it not been for this reversion, the Legislature likely would not have known that $1.7  billion went unused. The lack of information on actual use of the funds is particularly concerning given how little information is provided on their planned use.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 29, 2021 - The 2021 ‑22 budget provides $2.2  billion ($1.7  billion General Fund) over three years to fund the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program, which will provide grant funding to local entities for behavioral health facilities or mobile crisis infrastructure (contingent on these entities providing matching funds and committing to providing funding for ongoing services).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4468

The 2025-26 Budget: State Departments’ Operational Efficiencies (Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12)

Feb 19, 2025 - Across all funding sources, the administration identified $1.7  billion in ongoing savings resulting from the two control sections. Of this total, the administration indicates that it was able to identify more non-General Fund savings than General Fund savings —with the General Fund representing 43  percent of the total identified savings —far below the 2024-25 budget assumption that 78  percent of the savings from state departments would benefit the General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4975

The 2023-24 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Mar 20, 2023 - Since July 2021, the administration and the Legislature have made substantive changes in the amounts and sources of funding for the original broadband infrastructure spending plan —a $6  billion ($4.3  billion American Rescue Plan [ARP] fiscal relief funds, $1.7  billion General Fund) multiyear plan enacted in 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4747

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Sep 23, 2021 - COVID-19 Spending and Control Section 11.91 The 2021 ‑22 Budget Act provides $1.7  billion one time from the General Fund for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related activities. As shown in Figure  2, these funds are allocated to nine state departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4452

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - In particular, the 2021 ‑22 budget included $2.2  billion ($1.7  billion General Fund and $530  million federal funds) on a one-time basis for the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

The 2023-24 Budget: Governor’s Proposals for the Department of General Services

Mar 1, 2023 - The Governor ’s budget proposes a total of about $1.7  billion from various funds to support DGS in 2023 ‑24. This  amount reflects an increase of $210  million (about 14  percent) from the revised 2022 ‑23 level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4724