The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Please see the “New and Ongoing Efforts to Achieve Efficiencies” section of our post for more information.) This decrease is largely due to the expiration of limited term funding provided in prior years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Apr 11, 2025 - Use 2022 and 2023 as the New Baseline and Consider Future Updates. We recommend that the new baseline be based on years that fully reflect all of the policy changes that have impacted county felony supervision failure-to-prison rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

Feb 25, 2025 - As part of the Governor ’s January budget proposal each year, the administration requests adjustments to CDCR ’s budget based on projected changes in the prison and parole populations in the current and budget years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - This reflects a lower cost per test and a decrease in tests per patient from 14 tests per year to 12 per year. Price Increases. The budget provides General Fund augmentations beginning in 2024-25 due to price increases, including: $26  million annually for four years to cover the cost resulting from a new contract for parole Sex
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - The new funding model could be implemented such that it costs no more or less in total compared to the existing way the state funds incarcerated students. To provide time for community colleges to adjust to the new funding model, the state could commence funding adjustments one year after statutory  adoption.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

Feb 26, 2025 - Reflects Proposition 36 in effect for half of the fiscal year. c Estimated savings amount is a projection. Reflects Proposition 36 in effect for the full fiscal year. Projected Savings of $30.5  Million in 2025-26 and $24.7  Million in 2026-27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Feb 28, 2023 - To the extent the Legislature authorizes new lease revenue bonds for projects, we recommend the Legislature provide clear direction to the administration regarding which source of funds it intends to use to make debt service payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709