The 2025-26 Budget: Natural Resources and Agriculture Discretionary Spending Proposals

Feb 18, 2025 - Instead, the new proposed funding would expand on the central themes of that exhibit by adding new interactive and immersive learning features throughout the rest of the museum, in addition to other unrelated improvements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4967

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

Feb 24, 2026 - As we discuss in our December 2018 report, Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Transportation , such challenges can include (1) program interactions that can affect cost‑effectiveness, (2) difficulty evaluating programs,(3) potential lack of program coordination, and (4) increased administrative costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5140

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

Mar 19, 2026 - The functions that LCI performs were part of OPR until that office underwent restructuring in 2024 and split into two new offices: the Governor ’s Office of Service and Community Engagement (GO-SERVE) and LCI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Tax Credit Proposal

Feb 24, 2026 - This is in part because —due to interactions with other existing policies and the interchangeability of many production inputs and processes discussed above —any additional SAF production induced by this proposed policy could correspondingly result in lower RD production.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Governor ’s Office of Service and Community Engagement The 2024-25 budget package established the Governor ’s Office of Service and Community Engagement (GO-SERVE) as part of a reorganization of the former Governor ’s Office of Planning and Research.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2022-23 Budget: State Water Resources Control Board—Bay-Delta Plan Update

Jan 31, 2022 - While we believe the proposal is reasonable and recommend its adoption, we also recommend the Legislature engage with the administration regarding its time line for updating the plan a nd whether additional actions can be taken to help expedite this process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4506

The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - In 2022 ‑23, the program provided grants to 42 host partners which in turn engaged two to three fellows each. CA Volunteers indicates that applications for funding significantly exceeded available funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723

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

Mar 18, 2026 - The box below describes some of the primary ways that state and federal rules govern water use in the Bay ‑Delta watershed and how they  interact. Numerous State and Federal Rules Govern Water Use in the Bay‑Delta Watershed Water allocations from the San Francisco Bay ‑Delta watershed depend not only on available supply from rainfall and snowmelt, but also on a complex framework of state and federal requirements contained in both statutes and administrative regulations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2022-23 Budget: Zero-Emission Vehicle Package

Feb 23, 2022 - Current CVRP estimates provided by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) do not take either of these interactions into account when estimating cost ‑effectiveness. As a result, we do not include these estimates in our cost ‑effectiveness analysis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4561

The 2022-23 Budget: Office of Planning and Research Budget Proposals

Feb 9, 2022 - These programs engage AmeriCorps members in pandemic response activities, such as staffing food banks and vaccination clinics, and pandemic recovery activities that widely vary based on local community  needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4523