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

Feb 25, 2025 - For example, how would people at other prisons learn of the benefits of SQRC? What are the intermediate positive steps and institutional responses that would mark someone ’s pathway to SQRC? How Would the Administration ’s Vision Be Implemented?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Apr 11, 2025 - Additionally, the administration ind icates it does not anticipate proposing future changes to the baseline. This means it would not be adjusted for policy changes such as Proposition  36 (2024). Proposition  36 increased punishment for various theft and drug crimes, which could make it easier for people to fail-to-prison while on county felony supervision.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Model Left Unchanged How Colleges Are Funded for Incarcerated Students. The new funding model —known as the Student Centered Funding Formula (SCFF) —did not change how the state funds incarcerated students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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 2023-24 Budget: Financing Approaches for Capital Outlay Projects

Feb 28, 2023 - Ultimately, the Legislature ’s financing approach will depend on how it weighs support for short-term budget priorities against reducing long-term budget obligations. However, given the current budget problem facing the state —including our office ’s assessment that the problem will likely be even larger than the Governor projects —and the state ’s relatively low DSR, the Legislature might want to switch to lease revenue bonds instead of cash financing for some of the projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709