The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Zero-Emission Vehicle Incentive

Feb 24, 2026 - The Governor proposes $200  million on a one ‑time basis ($115  million from GGRF and $85  million from APCF), along with associated budget trailer legislation to create a new incentive program for light ‑duty ZEVs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5140

The 2026-27 Budget: Cap-and-Invest Expenditure Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - Proposes $115  million to create a new light ‑duty ZEV incentive program . (The Governor also proposes providing $85 million from the Air Pollution Control Fund—similarly freed up from undoing the previously‑approved MVA fund transfer—to support this new ZEV program, for a total of $200 million.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

The 2026-27 Budget: Framework for Approaching the Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, and Agriculture Budget

Feb 10, 2026 - The budget proposes $200  million on a one ‑time basis ($115  million from GGRF and $85  million from the Air Pollution Control Fund [APCF]) to create a new incentive program for light ‑duty vehicles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Chapter 115 (SB 162, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) appropriated from the General Fund an unspecified amount to county elections officials and the Secretary of State for the “actual and reasonably necessary costs, as determined by the Director of Finance,” to conduct the election.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

What Can We Learn From How the State Responded to the Last Major Drought?

May 13, 2021 - The second largest emergency response spending category ($ 115  m illion) was for addressing drinking water emergencies affecting thousands of households —mostly in disadvantaged communities in the southern San Joaquin Valley —for whom domestic wells went dry or became contaminated as groundwater levels dropped due to heavy rates of agricultural pumping.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4429

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 10, 2022 - The budget includes a total of $115  million in 2022-23 for various capital outlay projects at state parks ($83  million from the General Fund and $32  million from various bond and special funds). This includes $29  million, mostly from the General Fund, for the Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park Visitor Center.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4633

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2023 - Additionally, the budget reverts $115  million of General Fund that was set aside in a designated fund in 2021 ‑22 and 2022 ‑23 for park-related activities but is not urgently needed. Cap-and-Trade Spending Summary Targets Cap-and-Trade Discretionary Spending Primarily to Offset General Fund Reductions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4807

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 18, 2021 - Budget trailer legislation —Chapter  115 of 2021 (AB  148, Committee on Budget) —includes provisions applicable to drought response expenditures. In particular, the language allows implementing departments to make direct expenditures to provide immediate relief for drought conditions —rather than being subject to typical statutory requirements for competitive grant or bid
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4463