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 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

Cap-and-Invest: November 2025 Auction Update and 2026-27 Budget Context

Dec 9, 2025 - If allowance prices were to jump notably, the state could receive a substantial increase in revenues. Under such a scenario, the state might be able to fully support all the statutory allocations along with other activities such as the programs and projects identified in recent legislative inte nt language.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5096

Overview of New Updates to the Cap-and-Invest Program

Dec 9, 2025 - This, in turn, will affect which programs ultimately are funded if there are years in which GGRF revenues are insufficient to fully support all of the statutory allocations, as well as the costs to CARB and other state departments associated with administering the programs (known as state administrative costs).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5097

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board [Publication Details]

May 5, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality 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/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - State law tasks the Commission on State Mandates (CSM) with determining whether new state laws or regulations affecting local governments create state-reimbursable mandates. Typically, the process for determining whether a law or regulation is a state-reimbursable mandate takes several years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions [Publication Details]

Oct 16, 2025 - This post discusses features of the state's spending plan that were not covered elsewhere in the 2025-26 Spending Plan series.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5081

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - The Legislature could use the funding it frees up from funding fewer proposals to address district cost pressures (such as rising pension costs), or it could set this funding aside in the Proposition  98 Reserve for future allocation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

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

Oct 16, 2025 - The program provides free access to most state parks through passes that can be checked out from public library branches throughout the state. Park Restoration and Capital Outlay Projects. The budget appropriates $6  million General Fund in 2025-26 to restore Topanga State Park and Will Rogers State Historic Park, both of which were damaged by the Palisades Fire in January 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 4

Oct 16, 2025 - To help address the state ’s budget deficit, the Governor proposed reducing about $300  million from nine prior General Fund appropriations for environmental programs and providing at least as much funding from Proposition  4 for similar activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5076