The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This includes $8.2  million ($7  million General Fund) in efficiency reductions and $2.8  million General Fund in vacant position reductions. Please see the “New and Ongoing Efforts to Achieve Efficiencies” section of this post for more information on these budget-wide reductions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 26, 2025 - First, Proposition  36 only allows people who possess certain drugs to be charged with a treatment mandated felony if they have at least two past drug convictions. Whereas, people who possessed drugs prior to Proposition  47 could be charged with a felony even without any prior convictions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

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

Feb 25, 2025 - First, Proposition  36 only allows people who possess certain drugs to be charged with a treatment ‑mandated felony if they have at least two past drug convictions, whereas, people who possessed drugs prior to Proposition  47 could be charged with a felony even without any prior convictions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Feb 28, 2023 - Importantly, without this level of detail, whether t he fund has sufficient capacity to support the debt service is unclear. If there is insufficient budget capacity, then approving the bonds could force the state to reduce programmatic activities supported by the fund and/or increase the taxes or fees supporting the fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

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

Apr 11, 2025 - We find that these steps would allow the state to better assess the actual state savings generated, preserve the formula ’s fiscal incentives, and continue sharing state savings with counties at a level the Legislature finds appropriate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - (This backfill maintains funding provided by these fines and fees at the 2013-14 revenue collection level.) This is a $23.4  million decrease from the revised 2023-24 backfill level. Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924