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

Apr 11, 2025 - Modify Performance Payment We concur with the administration that providing payments based on performance is an important way to achieve the original goals of the SB  678 grant program. The Governor ’s proposal gets the state closer to achieving those goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

Feb 28, 2023 - One advantage of bonds is that they can better align who pays for the project with who benefits from the project. Since capital outlay projects will provide benefits for many years, future taxpayers would pay for the future bene fits (through debt service payments) rather than current taxpayers paying for the entire project (through cash financing).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget package also included supplemental reporting language requiring a report —due on or before March  1, 2026, and annually thereafter for three years —on the problems the program was designed to address and how the funds were used.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Feb 25, 2025 - For example, of the roughly 30,000  people released from prison annually, roughly half spend around a year or less in prison. A  clear theory of action would articulate how the California Model would better serve this large group with short stays and what specific outcomes we might logically expect to see as  a result.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - We did not hear the same level of challenges from colleges that provide instruction via correspondence education. Several Colleges Are Piloting Online Models That Appear Promising. With the recent distribution of laptops to students, community colleges and CDCR have an opportunity to rethink how instruction is delivered to students from a distance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - In addition, the budget package includes language that would allow the Department of Finance to make payments from the General Fund for any fines related to staffing vacancies in the Coleman v. Newsom court case related to the provision of prison mental health care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions [Publication Details]

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5081

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

Feb 26, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47 Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47 $94,773,000 Decline Relative to 2023 ‑24 — Percent Decline Relative to 2023 ‑24 — Estimated Prison Population Reduction Attributable to Proposition 47 3,796 Percent Decline Relative to 2023 ‑24 — ‑81% ‑88% a Estimated savings amount was transferred to the
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991