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

Feb 25, 2025 - As part of the Governor ’s January budget proposal each year, the administration requests adjustments to CDCR ’s budget based on projected changes in the prison and parole populations in the current and budget years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Governor ’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation The 2024-25 budget package established the Governor ’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI) as part of a reorganization of the former Governor ’s Office of Planning and Research.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - The maximum Pell Grant award is about $7,400 in 2023 ‑24, with the specific amount students are entitled to receive varying based on income level, cost of attendance, and status as full ‑time or part ‑time student.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

Apr 11, 2025 - As a result , this part of the proposed methodology would overestimate state savings. No Adjustment for Amount of Time in Prison or on Parole. The proposed formula does not take into account the amount of time people serve in prison or on parole.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - This maintains total direct state funding for self-help centers at $30   million —the level it has been at since 2018-19. $5.1  million one-time General Fund reappropriation of monies provided as part of the 2022-23 budget package to implement and maintain remote access to court proceedings as required by Chapter  526 of 2021 (AB  716, Bennett).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Feb 26, 2025 - In this post, we assess the administration’s estimate of the level of spending required by Proposition 47 (2014), which reduced punishment for various crimes and requires the resulting state savings be spent on certain grant programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Feb 28, 2023 - As such, under either approach, investors would include the lease revenue bonds as part of the state ’s debt portfolio in their assessment of the state ’s overall creditworthiness. Recommendations Consider Shifting to Lease Revenue Bonds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709