The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - This relatively small number obscures many billions of dollars in budgetary changes. For example, relative to the Governor ’s budget, the Legislature enacted about $6.4  billion in spending increases and revenue reductions through early action.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The reason for the reduction is the recent voter approval of Proposition  35 (2024), which requires the state to spend less MCO tax money on offsetting General Fund spending and more money on provider rate increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Implications for State Transportation Funding and Programs

Dec 13, 2023 - Figure 9 shows our estimates (in inflation ‑adjusted dollars) for how the revenue projections displayed in Figure 8 will affect funding for the state ’s transportation programs over the next eleven years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4821

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Similarly, rural communities that are at greater risk of experiencing water shortages due to droughts tend to be home to large proportions of households with residents of color and who earn lower incomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 16, 2025 - Cash flow adjustments from prior budget packages reverted previously awarded funds, with the intent to reappropriate those dollars in future years for the same projects when awardees are expected to need construction funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5077

The 2025-26 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 12, 2025 - While the administration has not yet provided specific details around which positions and activities it is reducing to achieve these savings —or how service levels might be impacted —it has stated that it is not reducing public safety positions at CHP.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4961

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - Lifting the NOL deduction and credit limits will reduce tax revenues by an estimated $5.5  billion in 2022 ‑23 and then, over following years, increase revenues by several hundred million dollars per  year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Transportation

Apr 5, 2022 - In  response to Executive Order N ‑19 ‑19, which called for CalSTA to leverage discretionary state transportation funds to reduce GHG emissions in the transportation sector and adapt to climate change, CalSTA developed ten guiding principles to leverage state transportation dollars to meet the state ’s climate, health, and social equity goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4576

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - Recent budgets have allocated or planned tens of billions of dollars for one ‑time or temporary spending purposes in 2021 ‑22, 2022 ‑23, and 2023 ‑24. The Legislature can select an entirely different set of spending solutions to address the budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2023-24 Budget: Proposed Budget Solutions in Transportation Programs

Feb 13, 2023 - How far along is the activity in being implemented? Would pulling back state funding affect the ability to access other funding, such as federal funds? Is the Funding Crucial to Addressing Urgent and Pressing Needs?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4676