The 2025-26 Budget: Update on Implementation of New Firearm and Ammunition Tax

Feb 19, 2025 - Chapter  231 provides flexibility for CDE to use its share of GVPSS monies to contract with other entities or to provide grants directly to school districts to enhance school safety. The 2024-25 budget package required CDE to set aside up to $35  million of its 2025-26 GVPSS allocation for providing youth behavioral health training to staff who work directly with students in grades 7 through 12.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - Savings Proposals Generates $1.6 Billion School and Community College Settle‑Up Obligation in 2024‑25. The Governor’s budget proposes providing $1.6 billion less in total funding for schools and community colleges than the estimated constitutional minimum funding level for 2024‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - Administration and Judicial Branch Already Implementing 2024 ‑25 Funding Restoration... The administration and judicial branch are already in the process of implementing the restoration of $42  million in trial court operations funding in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The 2024-25 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 22, 2024 - Prison and Parole Population Projected to Decrease in 2024 ‑25. As shown in Figure  2 , the average daily prison population is projected to be 91,700 in 2024 ‑25, a decrease of about 2,500  people (3  percent) from the estimated current ‑year level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4852

Retail Theft in California: Looking Back at a Decade of Change

Jun 12, 2025 - While some of these changes have been in effect for a few years, several were only recently enacted. Specifically, Proposition  36, approved by the voters in November  2024 became effective on December  18,  2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - The 2024-25 amount includes $1.2  million one time for the initial claiming period between the second half of 2020-21 and 2021-22. It also includes $1  million General Fund to support such costs in the budget year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

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

Jan 13, 2023 - We define a delay as an expenditure reduction that occurs in the budget window (2021 ‑22 through 2023 ‑24), but has an associated expenditure increase in a future year of the multiyear window (2024 ‑25 through 2026 ‑27).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2024-25 Budget: County Probation Grants to Support Temporary Increase in the Supervision Population

Feb 20, 2024 - Accordingly, there are no available projections of the total PRCS population in 2024 ‑25. However, as shown in Figure  1, the PRCS population has declined substantially in recent years, reaching levels comparable to 2016, which was the year before Proposition  57 implementation began.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4849

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 9, 2024 - Spending Proposed for 2024-25. As shown in Figure  1, the Governor ’s budget proposes $1.3  billion to support DOJ operations in 2024- 25 —a decrease of $47  million (or 4  percent) over the revised amount for 2023-24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4831

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 16, 2023 - The above funding includes ( 1) $4.5  million in 2023-24 (decreasing to $3.9  million annually in 2024-25) for costs billed by OAH to adjudicate such cases and (2) $6.1  million General Fund in 2023- 24 —and $5.3  million in 2024-25 and 2025- 26 —for costs billed by DOJ to represent POST in cases before OAH.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4805