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

Feb 24, 2026 - SAF is much more expensive to produce than conventional fuel, so enabling it to be cost competitive requires subsidies —in aggregate across all policies —that are quite large relative to its potential emission reduction benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - Much of the funding is to be awarded through competitive grants to eligible applicants includi ng local agencies, nonprofit organizations, tribes, and utilities. Remaining funding will support state ‑led activities, such as deferred maintenance and wildfire resilience activities at state parks and projects at the Salton Sea.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5115

Overview of California's Ports

Aug 23, 2022 - Because funding is awarded on a competitive basis, state funding does not make up a significant portion of ports ’ budgets. For example, state funds contributed less than 1.2  percent of the Port of Long Beach ’s budget in 2020-21.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4618

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

Feb 18, 2025 - This  proposal would provide competitive funding to organizations that help encourage producers to adopt a wide variety of climate smart practices —such as those aimed at improving soil health, sequestering carbon, reducing emissions, and increasing water and energy efficiency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4967

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Agriculture

Dec 15, 2021 - DDRDP provides competitive grants to dairy operations and developers for the implementation of digesters that result in methane emission reductions. Projects must use the captured biogas for energy production or transportation fuel.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4483

Adoption of April 2021 Wildfire and Forest Resilience Early Action Package

Apr 16, 2021 - The bill includes language intended to support certain departments ’ efforts to complete projects quickly by expediting their contracting processes, such as through exempting them from competitive bidding requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4414

The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - CA Volunteers allocated 80  percent of the $185  million to the largest 13 cities in the state using a population ‑based formula ($148  million), and granted 19  percent on a competitive basis to 14 other cities and counties ($35  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723

New Infrastructure Legislation: Summary and Issues for Legislative Oversight

Aug 8, 2023 - The administration has argued that enactment of this package of legislation will make the state more competitive for being awarded federal funding. The Legislature will want to explore to what extent this proves to be the case.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4785

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

Feb 9, 2022 - Most of these programs competitively award grants to community‑based organizations (CBOs) and other trusted messengers to communicate state messages locally or regionally using various media and, often, in various languages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4523

The 2022-23 Budget: Clean Energy Package

Feb 22, 2022 - Although the proposed programs could have merit in the long run, some of these newer technologies and projects might take at least five to ten years to be commercially available, and even longer to become cost ‑competitive.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4554