The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Funds Initiatives to Improve Coordination in Workforce Development. The 2025-26 budget includes funding for two initiatives, one in the LWDA and one in the Government Operations Agency (GovOps), to improve coordination between the state ’s workforce development and education agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Several students also mentioned that postsecondary education had helped them enhance communication with their families. Even those confined to life sentences shared that a CCC education had been beneficial in various ways, including by allowing them to serve as mentors to younger incarcerated persons and inspiring family members on the outside to go to college.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons [Publication Details]

Jul 1, 2024 - Due to legislation enacted a decade ago, the availability of postsecondary courses at state prisons has expanded significantly. In this report, we focus on California Community College programs at state prisons. After providing background on these programs, we cover trends in student outcomes and explain how these programs are funded.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4913

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Expand Basic and Secondary Education Capacity. The proposal includes eight teacher positions, which would allow CDCR to expand basic and secondary education capacity by 432 students, roughly doubling capacity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Apr 11, 2025 - However, we recommend an alternative mai ntenance payment that pays only for specific evidence-based practices that will improve public safety and does so in ways that are more likely to generate state savings —two of the key goals of the original program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 26, 2025 - However, the flaws we identify above are conceptual problems that can be improved through reasonable assumptions in areas where actual data is lacking. We will continue to monitor Proposition  36 implementation and the prison population and make recommendations based on the updated information available at the May Revision, including the administration ’s revised estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - The major changes in Chapter  157 include (1)  changing DBO ’s name to the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI), (2)  authorizing DFPI to promulgate regulations requiring a registration process for businesses offering consumer financial products or services that were previously unregulated, (3)  providing DFPI additional enforcement authority,
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - Specifically, it included: (1) $360.6  million in new lease revenue bond authority to demolish an existing building and construct a new educational and vocational center and (2) $20  million General Fund for unspecified improvement projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - Governor Allocates Most One ‑Time Spending to Homelessness, While Most Ongoing Spending Is for Health and Education. Figure  3 shows how the $4. 1  b illion in one ‑time or temporary and ongoing spending proposals are distributed across program areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135