The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Dolly Parton ’s Imagination Library. The budget includes an estimated $39  million one-time General Fund for Dolly Parton ’s Imagination Library. This amount reflects the remainder of the original $68  million that the 2022-23 Budget Act provided for this initiative.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The budget also reverts up to $50.7  million one-time General Fund provided in prior budgets —$30.1  million from 2022-23 and $20.6  million from 2023- 24 —for various purposes to help address the state ’s budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Apr 11, 2025 - These payments would determine each county ’s total SB  678 grant award. Below, we provide additional details about each of the proposed formula ’s payments. Performance Payment. 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 - Furthermore, of the 15,500  incarcerated CCC students enrolled in 2022 ‑23, 905 (5.8  percent) already had earned an associate degree in a prior year. Student Outcomes Course Success Rates Are Similar to Other CCC Students … The Chancellor ’s Office currently does not provide public ‑facing data on any outcomes related to CCC students at state prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

Feb 25, 2025 - New Bachelor ’s Degree Program. The administration has not provided data showing a demand for additional bachelor ’s degree program capacity systemwide. Accordingly, it is unclear whether adding a bachelor ’s degree program at SQRC would simply siphon some of the roughly 400 bachelor ’s degree students off of existing bachelor
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Feb 26, 2025 - These declines are driven by the administration ’s estimates that the prison population reduction attributable to Proposition  47 will decline by 3,357 (88  percent) over the period. This primarily reflects the administration ’s projections that Proposition  36 will significantly reduce the impact of Proposition  47 on the prison population.
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