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

Jan 13, 2025 - Significant Changes to Solutions From June 2024 Budget Package Managed Care Organization (MCO) Tax Package. Some of the largest budget solutions in the June budget package involved the MCO tax, a tax on health plans that supports the Medi ‑Cal program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

Impact of COVID-19 on State Transportation Revenues

Sep 17, 2020 - Funding for STIP comes from a specified portion of the gasoline excise tax, with 75  percent allocated to counties on a formula basis for projects they select and 25  percent to Caltrans for interregional projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4268?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=4268

SB 1 Has Doubled Major Source of State Funding for Local Streets and Roads

Jan 24, 2020 - Cities and counties receive equal splits of the shared revenues. City distributions are based on population, whereas county distributions are determined by the number of registered vehicles and miles of maintained county roads.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4142

CalFacts 2024 [Publication Details]

Dec 2, 2024 - CalFacts presents a wide range of facts and trends about the state's economy, finances, and programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4942

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

Dec 13, 2023 - For instance, some counties have voter‑approved sales tax measures that dedicate funding to transportation purposes, such as local streets and roads and/or transit, meaning state funds make up a smaller share of their overall programmatic support budgets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4821

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 16, 2023 - (Self-help counties are those that have passed local sales tax measures dedicated to transportation improvements.) California Highway Patrol The budget provides $3  billion for CHP in 2023-24, which represents a reduction of $106  million (3  percent) relative to 2022-23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4804

The 2025-26 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 12, 2025 - As we discuss in our January 2025 report, The 2025‑26 Budget: Overview of the Governor’s Budget , overall, the Governor proposes $2.2 billion in actions that would create capacity in the General Fund to support $570 million of discretionary proposals (including this proposal), $150 million of tax expenditures, and a larger discretionary reserve than the state typically plans.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4961

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Transportation

Sep 10, 2024 - The budget includes $20.8  million from the General Fund through Caltrans to support four local transportation projects, including: (1) $8  million to repair storm damage to bluffs in Crescent City, (2) $5  million for the Active Transportation Program to support bike lanes that connect disadvantaged communities to higher education facilities and job centers, (3) $4  million to support operations
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4925

Federal Stimulus Funds for Transit

Apr 15, 2020 - In California, 25 “self-help ” counties have passed local sales tax measures for transportation, a portion of which goes to transit. Also, State Transit Assistance is the state ’s largest funding program for transit and is funded by the sales tax on diesel.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4220

Impact of COVID-19 on State Transportation Revenues [Publication Details]

Sep 17, 2020 - The state has experienced reductions in gasoline and other tax revenues that support California's transportation system. This post discusses these declines and the potential effects on major state transportation programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4268