The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Across all of the agreements, the budget assumes that these agreements reduce state departmental costs by $750 million ($370 million General Fund). Agreements Shift General Fund Costs From Retiree Health Prefunding to Pension Liabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Across all of the agreements, the budget assumes that these agreements reduce state departmental costs by $750 million ($370 million General Fund). Agreements Shift General Fund Costs From Retiree Health Prefunding to Pension Liabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight [Publication Details]

Mar 18, 2026 - This report discusses the State Water Resources Control Board’s (SWRCB’s) proposed—and long-overdue—update of the water quality control plan for the San Francisco Bay-Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which includes an alternative compliance pathway for certain water users called voluntary agreements (VAs, also known as Healthy Rivers and Landscapes).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5163

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - State Uses Bay‑Delta Plan to Help Balance Multiple Water Uses Water quality control plans —including the Bay ‑Delta Plan —are key tools the state uses to protect water quality and help manage water resources throughout the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2026-27 Budget: Permitting Support at the State Water Resources Control Board [Publication Details]

Mar 2, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: Permitting Support at the State Water Resources Control Board [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5144

The 2026-27 Budget: Permitting Support at the State Water Resources Control Board

Mar 2, 2026 - …Shifting Regulation of Certain Waters to the State. At the state level, all WOTUS —and many other waters, wetlands, and streams —meet the state statutory definition for “waters of the state ” because it is much broader than the federal definition.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5144

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Proposals

Mar 19, 2026 - However, in the context of the state ’s structural budget deficit, any increases to ongoing General Fund spending will inevitably require commensurate programmatic reductions (or revenue increases) elsewhere in the state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

The 2024-25 Budget: Insolvency Risks for Environmental and Transportation Special Funds

Feb 27, 2024 - (These payments are related to a 2017 ‑18 budget action that borrowed from the General Fund for a large one ‑time contribution to the state employee pension fund, requiring future repayment from all relevant funds that make employer pension contributions, including MVA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4858

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Elimination of State Environmental Positions [Publication Details]

Feb 17, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Elimination of State Environmental Positions [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5124

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Elimination of State Environmental Positions

Feb 17, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Elimination of State Environmental Positions Proposed Elimination of State Environmental Positions Summary The Governor ’s budget includes the permanent elimination of certain vacant state positions in environmental departments to generate budgetary savings, initially proposed as part of the 2025-26 budget but delayed subject to further legislative review.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5124