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

May 5, 2025 - Senate Bill  231, which took effect in 2018, makes increasing stormwater-related fees more straightforward for local governments because they can use the majority protest provision rather than having to seek voter approval.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

Feb 12, 2025 - Revisiting Spending Plan Also Could Make Sense if Budget Condition Worsens. As of January 2025, both our office and DOF projected that the state ’s General Fund will be roughly balanced in 2025 ‑26 under the Governor ’s budget proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4960

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

May 30, 2025 - For a more detailed discussion of the administration ’s rationale —which also applied to the mandate addressed in the Governor ’s January budget proposal —and our corresponding assessment, please see our recent post .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - Overall, Proposed Plan Seems Reasonable and Consistent With Bond Requirements. Based on our review, the Governor ’s proposal appears reasonable. We have not identified any proposed actions or appropriations that conflict with bond requirements, and the timing of the funding allocations generally seems to account for and align with what we know about department capacity and local demand.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5115

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Tax Credit Proposal

Feb 24, 2026 - While such a scenario may seem far‑fetched, the most recent federal data show that California consumes more RD than is produced in the entire United States, indicating that producers have responded strongly to existing state policy incentives for renewable fuels by selling in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

New Infrastructure Legislation: Summary and Issues for Legislative Oversight

Aug 8, 2023 - Additionally, many of these infrastructure components were not designed for the anticipated effects of climate change, such as rising temperatures, more extreme weather events, and sea-level rise. Additional investments —such as for water storage and recycling projects to improve the state ’s resilience to more frequent and intense droughts, or relocating roads and railways away
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4785

Overview of New Updates to the Cap-and-Invest Program

Dec 9, 2025 - For example, under these pieces of legislation, CARB continues to have authority to set the level of the program ’s price ceiling and floor, the total number of allowances issued, and the share of allowances to sell versus provide for free to industry and utilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5097

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Proposals

Mar 19, 2026 - While the two offices are now separate, LCI provides administrative, cybersecurity, and information technology (IT) infrastructure services to GO-SERVE. GO-SERVE reimburses LCI for the staff time LCI spends providing these services (but not for the cost of maintaining the infrastructure) .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

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

Feb 10, 2026 - The funding and positions would address additional workload related to two active SET events occurring in the state; enhance overall state oversight; and update regulations to stre ngthen monitoring, response, and enforcement for future SET  events.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116

The Salton Sea: A Status Update

Aug 29, 2018 - Salton Sea Authority JPA including IID, CVWD, the Torres ‑Martinez tribe, and Imperial and Riverside counties. Partners with other entities to develop projects to restore the Sea. State Natural Resources Agency Serves as lead agency overseeing and guiding state ’s Salton Sea activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3879