The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Specifically, the General Fund costs to prefund retiree health benefits are used first to offset a portion of the Proposition  2 requirement and the remainder of the requirement is then satisfied through a supplemental pension payment towards the state ’s CalPERS liabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 26, 2025 - Second, it requires that people are generally given the option of treatment in lieu of incarceration in county jail or state prison. Accordingly, the number of people that reach prison under Proposition  36 for drug possession is likely to be substantially smaller than the number of people that were sentenced to prison for drug possession prior to the passage of Proposition  47.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Feb 25, 2025 - Require Administration to Report on Key Unanswered Questions. We recommend that the Legislature adopt budget bill language requiring the administration to submit a report by January  10, 2026 that answers the key questions outlined above.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Apr 11, 2025 - While counties are required to use SB  678 funds on evidence-based practices, there are no required audits or assessments of the evidence-based practices counties are using. This makes it difficult for the Legislature to assess whether counties that report funding evidence-based practices and programs are in fact doing so.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Require CDCR to Evaluate CCC Education Programs. To help assess the effectiveness of CCC courses at state prisons, we recommend that the Legislature require CDCR to work with each of its education partners to track and report certain data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The budget provides $3.3  million General Fund in 2024-25 (increasing to $7.7  million in 2025-26 and ongoing) for BSCC to establish a new division that will review investigations of deaths that occur in local correctional facilities and make recommendations to such facilities as required by Chapter  306 of 2023 (SB  519, Atkins).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924