The 2025-26 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 12, 2025 - Some of the major expenditure cost drivers have included (1)  increased employee compensation costs which have been driven by both increases to staffing levels and growing salary and benefit costs at CHP, (2)  workload related to the issuance of new driver licenses and ID cards that comply with federal standards (commonly referred to as “REAL IDs), ” and (3)  supplemental pension plan repayments that began in 2019 ‑20.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4961

The 2024-25 Budget: Transportation Budget Solutions

Feb 23, 2024 - Cash Flow Adjustments Avoid Programmatic Impacts but Create Cost Pressures in Future Years. The proposed $2.8  billion in cash flow adjustments would help alleviate cost pressures in the near term by reducing General Fund commitments in 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4854

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

Feb 27, 2023 - We recommend the Legislature weigh the trade ‑offs associated with using up ‑front cash versus lease revenue bonds for CHP and DMV projects, such as the resulting implications for the timing and level of costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4710

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 16, 2025 - Cash flow adjustments from prior budget packages reverted previously awarded funds, with the intent to reappropriate those dollars in future years for the same projects when awardees are expected to need construction funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5077

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - As the figure shows, most of the discretionary increases are to finance some capital outlay projects with cash instead of lease revenue bonds. This increases the size of the budget  problem. $800   Million in Other Differences.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - ADRC = Aging and Disability Resources Centers; Cal ‑OAR = CalWORKs Outcomes and Accountability Review; IT = information technology; FFPSA = Federal Family First Prevention Services Act; DCSD = Department of Community Services and Development; DDS = Department of Developmental Services; DOR = Department of Rehabilitation; DSS = Department of Social Services; HDAP=Housing and Disability Advocacy
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432/5

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Transportation

Sep 10, 2024 - D = Delay; FS = Fund Shift; CF = Cash Flow Adjustment; and R = Reduction. TIRCP = Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program; CalSTA = California State Transportation Agency; Caltrans = California Department of Transportation; CWDB = California Workforce Development Board; GO ‑Biz = Governor ’s Office of Business and Economic Development; and  DMV  =  Department  of  Motor  Vehicles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4925

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 1, 2021 - Implementing these systems is intended to improve transit agencies ’ ability to provide real time transit information to customers, as well as make it easier for customers to pay transit fares by credit and debit cards, smartphones, and other devices.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4458

The 2022-23 Budget: Highway Violence Task Force

Feb 14, 2022 - With the additional investigative support positions and resources, CHP reports it would be able to better identify suspects and their vehicles, more effectively identify crime patterns, investigate links between interrelated crimes, as well as collate and analyze crime data in real time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4533

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Similarly, rural communities that are at greater risk of experiencing water shortages due to droughts tend to be home to large proportions of households with residents of color and who earn lower incomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575