The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget provides $7  million in ongoing General Fund for ICAC program grants. Funding for the program, which had typically been $5  million annually, was set to expire at the end of 2024-25. These funds provide support to five regional law enforcement task forces that focus on the investigation of cybercrimes that target minors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 28, 2023 - Taxable bonds are projected to have about 7  percent interest rates in fall 2023 —or 1.35  percent higher than tax-exempt bonds. As a result, the annual debt service savings on these taxable bonds is about $5  million more than tax-exempt bonds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Figure  7 shows persistence rates for several cohorts that started their CCC education at CDCR. On average, incarcerated students have notably lower persistence rates compared with the average for CCC students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The offset from the fund balance includes $5  million that became unrestricted as the budget package reduced the statutorily required trial court emergency reserve from $10  million to $5  million. The budget also reverts up to $50.7  million one-time General Fund provided in prior budgets —$30.1  million from 2022-23 and $20.6  million from 2023- 24 —for various purposes to help address the state ’s budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Feb 25, 2025 - APPs provide shorter ‑term, intensive treatment for people who show signs of a major mental illness or higher ‑level symptoms of a chronic mental illness. Patients are supposed to be transferred to an APP within 72 hours of the referral, but no more than ten days after the referral and can generally stay up to 45 days.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Apr 11, 2025 - To the extent SB  678 grant awards are no longer keeping up with county costs to operate effective and efficient supervision programs, the administration could request increases based on actual costs in the future.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031