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

Feb 25, 2025 - How Is Progression Through the Prison System Envisioned? Several of the activities being piloted under the California Model are targeted toward specific populations and environments within the prison system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Next Generation 911 System Augmentations. The budget includes provisional language authorizing the Department of Finance to augment State Emergency Telephone Number Account fund expenditure authority by amounts “necessary to continue implementation of the Next Generation 9-1-1 system, including transition from the legacy 9-1-1 system, ” subject to 30-day legislative notification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - Legislation increasing the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System fee from $9 to $15 per licensee per year, beginning in April 2025, to cover DOJ ’s costs to operate and maintain the system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Apr 11, 2025 - These changes would result in a system that would better achieve the stated goals of the program. We note that if all of our recommended changes are adopted, it would result in the formula described in our publication, Achieving the Goals of the SB 678 County Probation Grant Program .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031