The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Control Sections 4.05 and 4.12. The 2024-25 budget included two control section —Control Section 4.05 and Control Section 4.12 —that were assumed to reduce ongoing state expenditures. Below, we discuss the assumptions around these two ongoing efforts to achieve operational efficiencies in the 2025-26 budget package.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

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

Feb 25, 2025 - For more information, please see the “State Prison and Parole Population and Other Biannual Adjustments ” section of this brief.) MHCB Proposal Does Not Account for Reduced Costs Related to Transfers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - In 2014, the state approved Chapter  695 (S B  1391 , Hancock), which opened the way for districts to provide in ‑person instruction at state prisons by allowing them to receive regular state funding for closed ‑to ‑the ‑public courses offered to incarcerated people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - The budget includes a $247.6  million one-time reduction in General Fund support for trial court operations in 2024-25 in order to reflect the availability of property tax revenue in accordance with Control Section 15.45 and Section 2578 of the Education Code.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program a Calculated as the average felony probation failure ‑to ‑prison rate between 2006 and 2008. b State savings were calculated at about $29,000 per person diverted from prison and parole.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

Feb 26, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47 Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47 $94,773,000 Decline Relative to 2023 ‑24 — Percent Decline Relative to 2023 ‑24 — Estimated Prison Population Reduction Attributable to Proposition 47 3,796 Percent Decline Relative to 2023 ‑24 — ‑81% ‑88% a Estimated savings amount was transferred to the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991