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

Apr 11, 2025 - The performance payment compares a county ’s most recent annual county felony supervision failure-to-prison rates with the county ’s average failure-to-prison rates in 2021, 2022 and 2023 —known as the baseline rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - In higher education, these data are commonly referred to as student persistence rates. 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 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - California ’s Pass-Through Entity Elective Tax (PTET) allows certain businesses to elect to pay additional corporation taxes at a rate of 9.3  percent on qualified net income. Taxpayers utilizing this option receive credits that can be claimed against their income taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Feb 28, 2023 - Projected Interest Rates Are Higher Than Recent Years. Currently, interest rates for bonds are projected to be about 6  percent to 7  percent in fall 2023. This is significantly higher than recent years, when rates have been less than 5  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - Authorization for DOJ to increase its billable hourly rates for legal services to generate $8.7  million in additional revenue. The package increases the rates to $228 (from $220) for attorney services, $213 (from $205) for paralegal services, and $202 (from $195) for auditor and research analyst services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Feb 25, 2025 - As part of the ongoing Coleman court case, CDCR has been incurring fines monthly since April 2023 for failing to reduce vacancy rates for five mental health classifications, which include: psychiatrists; psychologists; clinical social workers; recreational therapists; and medical assistants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986