The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Control Section 19.56 of the 2025-26 budget also separately provides $4.5  million in direct grants to local jurisdictions to be allocated by OES, including $4  million to the Foothill Municipal Water District for addressing impacts of the Eaton Fire on local water systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Feb 25, 2025 - This amount includes (1) $11.5  million to construct new groundwater wells to supply Ironwood State Prison in Blythe, (2) $1.2  million for the preliminary plans phase of a project to construct new ground water wells to supply Central California Women ’s Facility and Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, and (3) $982,000 for the working drawing phase of a project to construct a potable water treatment system at the California Health Care Facility in  Stockton.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Feb 26, 2025 - However, based on discussions, it is our understanding that the administration used the number of people that were admitted to prison for drug possession and certain lower level theft crimes in 2013-14, the year before Proposition  47 reduced prison admissions for these crimes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - In fall 2019 (the year just before the pandemic), the gap in success rates between in ‑person and correspondence courses was 15  percentage points. The gap shrunk temporarily during the pandemic as success rates for in ‑person courses declined as a result of disruptions to in ‑person  programming.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913