The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - Additional details about the mandate are as follows: Time Period in Question: November 10, 2010 to December 31, 2017. CSM ’s Estimated Statewide Cost to Reimburse Local Governments: Between $238,301 and $334,104.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

New Infrastructure Legislation: Summary and Issues for Legislative Oversight

Aug 8, 2023 - Sunsets Caltrans ’ expanded authority to use job order contracting for specified maintenance and other activities expires on December 31, 2033. CalSTA ’s NEPA delegation authority expires on December 31, 2033.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4785

The 2025-26 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Expenditure Plan

Feb 12, 2025 - We estimate that even if allowance prices continue to trail the 2024 ‑25 Budget Act ’s assumptions, if they remain at comparable levels to the past two auctions (roughly $31), GGRF likely will be able to continue to support the expenditures that currently are planned for 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4960

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - The Governor ’s budget proposes suspending several requirements in the regional board ’s municipal stormwater permit for the June 1, 2009 through December 31, 2017 period. CSM determined these requirements were state-reimbursable mandates for that time frame.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2026-27 Budget: Framework for Approaching the Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, and Agriculture Budget

Feb 10, 2026 - The budget proposes $9.3  million General Fund and 31  positions (and a similar amount ongoing) to open the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Museum, a significant new addition to the Science Center in Expo Park recently constructed largely using private funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116

Frequently Asked Questions About Wildfires in California

Jan 28, 2025 - Enforces defensible space requirements in the “State Responsibility Area ” (SRA, which includes over 31 million acres of mostly privately owned forestlands). Oversees enforcement of state timber harvesting policies on private lands.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4952

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 10, 2022 - CAD/AVL programs CalFire $42 million ($24 million GF and $18 million SETNA) in 2022 ‑23, $31 million ($23 million GF and $8 million SETNA) ongoing, and 43 positions to expand and support AVL and CAD systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4633

The 2018-19 Budget: California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority (CAEATFA)

Feb 15, 2018 - It also specified that any pilots not launched by December 31, 2019 would be cancelled. Subsequently, the Legislature extended CAEATFA ’s limited-term spending authority through 2017-18 to continue the pilots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3755

Key Differences Between Recent Medical Cannabis Laws and Proposition 64: A Preliminary Review

Dec 20, 2016 - Requirement ends December 31, 2019. Special market considerations None. Licensing authorities shall evaluate several market considerations including unreasonable restraints on competition in determining whether to grant a license.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3517

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 18, 2021 - The budget authorizes DWR to add 67 new positions in 2021 ‑22 with an associated cost of $15   million —growing to 150 new positions with a cost of $31  million by 2024 ‑ 25 —to conduct maintenance and repairs on aging SWP infrastructure such as canals and dams.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4463