The 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - Then, any additional state funding could be better targeted to fill any funding gaps, provide any necessary state matching funds to maximize federal funds, and ensure funding is distributed across projects of different types at all ports statewide in a manner consistent with the Legislature’s priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

The 2025-26 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 12, 2025 - The department also indicates that it would require local governments to provide a match to receive this state funding. Yet, a one ‑time match similarly does not ensure lasting efforts to address  litter.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4961

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - As such, why the department needs an augmentation for covering baseline costs this year rather than accommodating them through relying on its historical practice is unclear. Unclear Why the Department Is Unable to Use Salary Savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2024-25 Budget: Establishing the Office of the Inspector General for the High-Speed Rail Authority

Feb 8, 2024 - While the administration ’s perspective is that a notification was not required under the statute since the total amount of funding provided matches what OIG requested for 2024 ‑25, DOF did change the proposal materially.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4833

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - This is due in part to historical discriminatory practices that restricted which racial groups could live and purchase homes in the communities that contained larger and more developed water systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2023-24 Budget: Proposed Fund Shift for CHP and DMV Capital Projects

Feb 27, 2023 - This approach would raise important questions about deviating from the past practice of applying the “user pays ” principle to these departments by having general taxpayers pay for a portion of their core activities on an ongoing basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4710

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

Feb 13, 2023 - Third, these practices make solving the budget problem more difficult for the Legislature. Specifically, they create a dynamic where the Legislature would then need to consider whether it should cut funding that local agencies (1)  had already applied for and/or (2)  had already been promised.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4676

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

Dec 13, 2023 - Increasing fuel taxes would be consistent with the state’s historic practice of generating transportation revenues through the user‑pays principle, whereby the costs of maintaining and improving the state’s transportation system are paid by those who use and benefit from the system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4821