The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 16, 2025 - Starting in 2026-27, the legislation establishes fixed annual amounts of $400  million for TIRCP and $200  million for LCTOP. (To the extent that GGRF revenues are insufficient to fully cover the statutory amounts designated for continuous appropriations, funding for TIRCP, LCTOP, and other specified programs will be reduced proportionally.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5077

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - Administration Projects MVA Is Fiscally Stable in the Near Term, but Will Face Insolvency Starting in 2028-29. The MVA has been experiencing a structural imbalance for many years, with expenditures consistently outpacing revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2024-25 Budget: Transportation Budget Solutions

Feb 23, 2024 - CalSTA currently is in the process of starting its 2024 competitive TIRCP grant cycle, with plans to award about $800  million from these base funds this fall to support new projects over the next five years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4854

The 2023-24 Budget: Proposed Budget Solutions in Transportation Programs

Feb 13, 2023 - Local agencies have already started applying for funding from the planning program and are expected to submit applications for the capital program in March  2023. Backfilling the proposed reductions with SHA funds would minimize disruption for the local projects for which planning is already well underway.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4676

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - The Governor ’s May Revision is the starting point for legislative deliberation. Ultimately, the Legislature will make its own determination about how to allocate available funds in the budget. One of the goals of this post is to estimate how much capacity the budget has to make those allocations under the Governor ’s estimates of revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Implications for State Transportation Funding and Programs

Dec 13, 2023 - Options to Address Approaching Transportation Funding Gap In light of the above forecasted trend, the Legislature likely will want to start planning and weighing various options to address the anticipated drop in state transportation revenues over the coming decades.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4821

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - On January 10, 2022, Governor Newsom presented his proposed state budget to the Legislature. In this report, we provide a brief summary of the proposed budget based on our initial review. In the coming weeks, we will analyze the plan in more detail and release several additional budget analyses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492