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

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

Jan 13, 2022 - For example, the Governor proposes a major expansion of the Part ‑Time Faculty Health Insurance program (increasing the existing $490,000 allocation by $200  million), without a clear explanation of how this augmentation works in concert with the Governor ’s other proposals to expand health care coverage and reduce associated costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

The 2023-24 Budget: Proposed Reauthorization of AB 8 Vehicle Fees

Feb 24, 2023 - Should the Legislature believe deeper investments in clean transportation efforts are necessary through 2035, reauthorizing the A B  8 fee revenues could provide a consistent funding source without raising new taxes or fees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4708

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

May 17, 2021 - If the Legislature wants to make different decisions about this spending (without statutory changes or fund shifts), it can either: (1)  use the funds to make tax rebates and additional payments to schools, (2)  spend on other SAL-excluded purposes, or (3)  use the funds to reduce taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Transportation

Apr 5, 2022 - How can the Legislature ensure that planning agencies ’ intentions to incorporate the effects of climate change into their processes manifest into effective action and implementation? How can the Legislature ensure that state transportation projects will be resilient, long ‑lasting, and a worthwhile investment of state funds?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4576

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

Feb 13, 2023 - Using SHA to Backfill Reductions in Other Programs Means Less for Highways … While utilizing SHA funds to backfill General Fund reductions would come with some benefits, this approach is not without trade ‑offs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4676

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 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - Without a clear understanding of how much funding the state is eligible for, an d for what types of projects, it is difficult to ascertain how state funding can best complement federal funds and how state funds could be leveraged to maximize federal funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

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

Dec 13, 2023 - As noted in our 2022 report, Assessing California’s Climate Policies—The 2022 Scoping Plan Update , the plan lacks key details on how the state can align itself with the pathway identified. In many cases, the plan’s estimated reductions are driven primarily by assumptions developed by CARB, without a specific strategy for how those assumed outcomes might be achieved.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4821

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