The 2026-27 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 23, 2026 - This includes: $4.8  million for 50 medical assistants in 2026 ‑ 27 —a one ‑to ‑one ratio of provider to medical assistant —who will be at the prisons setting up equipment and observing patients during tele ‑mental health appointments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

The 2026-27 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation [Publication Details]

Feb 23, 2026 - This brief provides our analysis of the Governor’s 2026-27 budget proposals related to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5137

The 2023-24 Budget: Sexual Assault Evidence Kits Testing Mandate

Feb 27, 2023 - One key reason is that the future ongoing workload and costs will differ by local government based on various factors —such as the number of SAE and RADS kits collected and submitted for testing and what entity does the testing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4714

The California State Bar: Assessment of Proposed Disciplinary Case Processing Standards

Jan 6, 2023 - The  Legislature could restore the definition used previously or develop new ones. For example, the Legislature could define backlog to constitute cases that were pending after 300 days without case closure, admonishment, or filing of charges from date of receipt.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4655

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 9, 2024 - One key change was that it revised Government Code 16427 to require that most litigation proceeds deposited into the LDF be transferred to a state special fund subject to legislative oversight (1)  within three months after case resolution for deposits made after July 2023 or (2)  by January 2024 for deposits made before July 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4831

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

Jan 13, 2025 - This is one of the key reasons that the budget remains balanced now. The  June 2024 budget package committed to a total of $28  billion in budget solutions for 2025 ‑26, which included, $12  billion in spending ‑related solutions and nearly $16  billion in all other solutions, including $5.5  billion in temporary revenue increases and a $7  billion withdrawal from the state ’s rainy day fund, the Budget Stabilization Account (BSA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

Retail Theft in California: Looking Back at a Decade of Change

Jun 12, 2025 - Chapter  168 allows a court to impose a two ‑year term of misdemeanor probation for people convicted of shoplifting, as opposed to the standard one year for misdemeanors. It requires a court that imposes a term longer than one year to consider referring the defendant for services that are relevant to the underlying factors that led to their offense.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 26, 2022 - Changes to the erroneous conviction program that would (1) provide compensation of $70 per day served on parole or supervised release, and (2) annually increase for inflation the existing $140 paid for each day of incarceration and the new $70 per day rate to be paid for parole or supervised release.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4625

The 2026-27 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 11, 2026 - In recent years, some one ‑time funding has been also provided from the General Fund to support specific, larger facility modification projects. These are typically higher ‑priority projects whose costs would have otherwise required a significant portion of the discretionary funding in one or more years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5113

Improving Parolee Substance Use Disorder Treatment Through Medi-Cal

Apr 14, 2021 - For example, in one DMC ‑ODS county, the median rate for residential services was $ 124 p er day, which is much higher than the $90 daily reimbursement for standard Drug Medi ‑Cal. As shown in Figure   3 , DMC ‑ODS has been widely adopted throughout California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4411