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

Apr 11, 2025 - Under the proposed formula, the amount of funding allocated through the maintenance payment grows annually starting in 2026-27. The growth adjustment would be based on the growth of 2011 realignment revenue provided to the counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget package excludes the first $20,000 of military retirement benefits, including retirement pay and survivor benefits, from state income taxation starting in tax year 2025. This exclusion is limited to individual taxpayers with less than $125,000 in adjusted gross income (AGI) or joint taxpayers with less than $250,000 in AGI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Feb 25, 2025 - The proposal includes two positions and funding for start ‑up costs to establish two new career technical education (CTE) programs —serving a total of 54 new students —in the space that will be vacated by existing rehabilitative programs that are relocated to the new learning center.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Figure  7 shows persistence rates for several cohorts that started their CCC education at CDCR. On average, incarcerated students have notably lower persistence rates compared with the average for CCC students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913