The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - (The administration indicates it may request that the Legislature take early budget action on the current-year proposal.) As shown in Figure  1, the proposal includes funding for ten categories of activities, with the three largest relating to vehicles (insurance, new vehicle purchases, and fuel).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2025-26 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 12, 2025 - The department also indicates that it would require local governments to provide a match to receive this state funding. Yet, a one ‑time match similarly does not ensure lasting efforts to address  litter.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4961

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

Jan 13, 2025 - We understand that while the administration indicates it will provide this payment in the future—after the final calculation of the minimum funding requirement—it also has not scored this future obligation in its multiyear budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2024-25 Budget: Establishing the Office of the Inspector General for the High-Speed Rail Authority

Feb 8, 2024 - However, OIG indicates that it currently does not have access to this position classification—which is used by the State Controller’s Office (SCO)—nor to similar classifications used by the California State Auditor (CSA) and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4833

The 2022-23 Budget: Clean California Local Grant Program

Feb 10, 2022 - The administration indicates that it will submit a report to the Legislature this spring that will provide an update on state beautification and CCLGP projects. However, this report likely will not provide sufficient information for the Legislature to determine whether additional funding for CCLGP is warranted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4526

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Implications for State Transportation Funding and Programs

Dec 13, 2023 - Results indicated that there could be success in collecting a road charge from the technologies studied. Public and Private Roads Pilot. This federally ‑funded pilot tested the ability of current global positioning system technologies to differentiate between public and private roads in a road charge system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4821

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

Feb 27, 2023 - The administration indicates that it has not yet determined which source of funding —whether MVA or General Fund —would be used to make these debt service payments. Either way, municipal bond investors will view the General Fund as ultimately backing the bonds and 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/4710

The 2023-24 Budget: Proposed Budget Solutions in Transportation Programs

Feb 13, 2023 - Second, we find that the proposed fund shifts would help to achieve budget solutions while maintaining activities the Legislature has indicated are among its key priorities. For instance, during the 2022 ‑23 budget negotiations, the Legislature advocated for more than doubling the $500  million for ATP that the Governor had originally proposed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4676

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

May 17, 2021 - After making administrative changes and proposing excluded spending, the administrations estimates indicate the state would have excess revenues of $16.2  billion across 20202 ‑21 and 2021 ‑22. The Governor allocates half of these excess revenues —$8.1  billion —to taxpayer rebates for taxpayers with incomes less than $75,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

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

Jan 13, 2022 - Regarding accountability, the Department of Finance indicates that the administration reserves discretion to propos e smaller future base increases were a segment not to demonstrate progress in meeting its  expectations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492