The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget assumes reductions to CDFA ’s budget of $11  million ($9.8  million General Fund) authorized by Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12 of the budget act. This includes $8.2  million ($7  million General Fund) in efficiency reductions and $2.8  million General Fund in vacant position reductions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The budget provides $11.6  million General Fund in 2024-25 (generally decreasing to $6.9  million General Fund and $3.2  million Fingerprint Fees Account annually beginning in 2028-29) to implement five pieces of recently enacted firearm legislation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 26, 2025 - This means that the $88.3  million in state savings estimated to occur in 2024-25 and reflected in the 2025-26 Governor ’s budget as a transfer from the General Fund to the SNSF is likely underestimated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - Since 2017, the state has approved a total of $141.1  million ($7.5  million General Fund and $133.6  million lease revenue bond authority) to construct a 50 ‑bed mental health crisis facility at CIM.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - (Since incarcerated students generally are low income, the vast majority of districts would receive the supplemental allocation.) We recommend the Legislature generally use the same student success metrics currently in place for most other CCC students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - The modifications to the formula were generally made in an attempt to prevent county grant awards from changing for reasons unrelated to performance. The most recent modification to the formula occurred in 2015-16.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2023-24 Budget: Financing Approaches for Capital Outlay Projects

Feb 28, 2023 - We note, however, that whether the General Fund or a special fund is the intended source of repayment, municipal bond investors will view the General Fund as ultimately backing the bonds. As such, under either approach, investors would include the lease revenue bonds as part of the state ’s debt portfolio in their assessment of the state ’s overall creditworthiness.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709