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

Apr 11, 2025 - As a result, the maintenance payment do es not support the original goals of the program. Growth Adjustment Not Tied to Actual Growth in County Costs and Would Have Less Oversight. We also find that the maintenance payment ’s growth adjustment is problematic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Patients are supposed to be transferred to an APP within 72 hours of the referral, but no more than ten days after the referral and can generally stay up to 45 days. Currently, there are 489 APP beds, all of which are in state prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Under this approach, students close to release who do not yet have a degree could be crowded out by students who already have a degree and/or have a significant amount of time left on their sentences.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - LEMA supports local law enforcement agencies that have been deployed through the state ’s mutual aid system. The remaining balance of amounts previously appropriated for this purpose (about $12  million) was reverted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The budget includes a $247.6  million one-time reduction in General Fund support for trial court operations in 2024-25 in order to reflect the availability of property tax revenue in accordance with Control Section 15.45 and Section 2578 of the Education Code.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

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

Feb 28, 2023 - The avoided costs for these projects are somewhat larger than normal because: Taxable Bonds Have Higher Interest Costs Than Tax-Exempt Bonds. The cash would be used for projects that would otherwise need to issue taxable bonds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709