The 2024-25 Budget: Insolvency Risks for Environmental and Transportation Special Funds

Feb 27, 2024 - Funds Display Varying Revenue Trends. While all of the funds discussed in this report currently maintain expenditure levels that exceed their ongoing revenues, the associated revenue trends vary by fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4858

Frequently Asked Questions About Wildfires in California

Jan 28, 2025 - The Figure displays wildfire likelihood across the state as estimated by the federal government . This reflects the estimated probability of a wildfire burning in any given year (based on fire behavior modeling across thousands of simulations of possible fire seasons).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4952

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - VA Parties Submitted an Alternative Proposal in 2022. Water users missed the 2019 deadline to submit a VA proposal to SWRCB. In March  2022, they came forward with an initial Memorandum of Understanding detailing terms to advance a VA for the Sacramento/Delta.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 4

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget package also authorizes nearly 80 new positions across 12 departments to administer Proposition  4-funded programs, as displayed in Figure  2. As shown, the number of new positions range from 13 at the Department of Conservation to one each at the Tahoe Conservancy and California Conservation Corps.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5076

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Sep 12, 2024 - SB 846 = Chapter 239 of 2022 (SB 846, Dodd); CEC = California Energy Commission; DTSC = Department of Toxic Substances Control; Parks  =  Department of Parks and Recreation; CalFire = California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection; DOC  = Department of Conservation; CNRA  =  California Natural Resources Agency; DPR = Department of Pesticide Regulation; and AB 1757 = Chapter 341 of 2022 (AB 1757, C.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4928

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

Feb 10, 2026 - In 2024 ‑25, the state began to reduce its firefighter duty week from a 72 ‑hour workweek to a 66 ‑hour workweek, consistent with a 2022 memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the state and the CalFire firefighters ’ union.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Water Resources

Mar 2, 2023 - Figure 6 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act Resource History (In Millions) 2014 ‑15 Through 2021 ‑22 2022 ‑23
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4725

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

Feb 10, 2026 - As displayed in Figure 2, the administration proposes to use $615 million of the $750 million in additional revenues to support the following activities, thus leaving a projected GGRF fund balanceof$135 million at the end of 2026‑27: CalFire Backfill.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Proposals

Mar 19, 2026 - . — $0.9 a CalHeatScore implementation Support one new and one existing position to coordinate and conduct outreach on local government adoption of the new statewide extreme heat ranking system pursuant to Chapter 264 of 2022 (AB 2238, L.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

The 2023-24 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Expenditure Plan and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Revenue Estimates

Mar 2, 2023 - The Governor ’s budget information displayed a very high anticipated fund balance for GGRF remaining after accounting for proposed 2023-24 spending —$1.3  billion. DOF indicates that this amount likely is significantly overstated due to circumstances that prevented DOF from fully reconciling GGRF funds in time for the January 10 budget deadline.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4730