The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2025 - It also adds CEQA exemptions for various specified types of projects, including certain housing-related rezoning, farmworker housing, advanced manufacturing facilities, high-speed rail facilities, wildfire risk reduction projects, health clinics, day care centers, public parks, and nonmotorized recreational trail facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

The 2023-24 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of CalFire’s Emergency Fire Protection Budget

May 1, 2023 - Create a 30 ‑Day Advance Notification Process for Augmenting the New Fund. We recommend that the budget bill language accompanying the allocation for this new fund specify that no augmentation to the fund be provided sooner than 30 days after JLBC receives notification (unless the JLBC waives the 30 ‑day review period in writing).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4765

Framework for Approaching the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Budget [Publication Details]

Feb 26, 2026 - Presented to: Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review No. 2 on Resources, Environmental Protection and Energy
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5136

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, in Fresno County, the historical trends of five days of extreme heat per year are projected to increase to 29 days annually between 2035 and 2064 and 43 days annually between 2070 and 2099.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Specifically, the Governor ’s budget assumes (1)  a $620  million ($230  million General Fund) reduction through the permanent elimination of 6,500 vacant positions and associated funding and (2)  a $1.5  billion ($820  million General Fund) in 2024 ‑25 and $2  billion ($1.2  billion General Fund) in 2025 ‑26 and ongoing reduction to state operations expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget includes provisional language authorizing the Department of Finance to augment State Emergency Telephone Number Account fund expenditure authority by amounts “necessary to continue implementation of the Next Generation 9-1-1 system, including transition from the legacy 9-1-1 system, ” subject to 30-day legislative notification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Residential Electricity Rates in California

Jan 7, 2025 - In contrast, electricity production —particularly from solar panels —usually peaks in the middle of the day (especially in summer months) and declines in the evenings just as demand rises. (The figure below shows an illustrative example of how supply and demand for electricity can vary over the course of a day.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950

The 2026-27 Budget: Framework for Approaching the Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, and Agriculture Budget

Feb 10, 2026 - (This is true even under the Governor ’s higher revenue projections, as the administration ’s proposal includes actions to free up capacity for new spending proposals, including creating a settle ‑up obligation for schools and community colleges and suspending a transfer to the state ’s rainy day fund.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Tax Credit Proposal

Feb 24, 2026 - In large part due to this cost differential, currently only a small share —less than 2   percent —of aviation fuel used in the United States is SAF. SAF Production Occurs Alongside Other Renewable Fuels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

The 2025-26 Budget: May Revision Trailer Bill Proposals on the Delta Conveyance Project and Water Quality Control Plans

May 27, 2025 - However, VA parties did not submit an initial VA memorandum of understanding to SWRCB until March  2022, and they continue to refine the proposal ’s details to this day. SWRCB also has indicated that the severe multiyear droughts that occurred in recent years strained its staff capacity to work on the Bay-Delta Plan updates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5053