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

Feb 25, 2025 - First, Proposition  36 specified that selling drugs to a person who suffers a significant physical injury as a result of using the drug is a serious and violent crime. Second, the measure requires courts to warn people convicted of selling certain drugs that they could be charged with murder if they sell or provide illegal drugs that kill someone.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The 2025-26 budget package assumes ongoing savings of $489.8  million ($182.3  million General Fund) (see Attachment 3 of the May 14, 2025 DOF letter) resulting from the permanent elimination of 6,002 vacant positions beginning in 2025-26 (see Attachment 4 of the May 14, 2025 DOF letter).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - Figure  2 shows the recent and projected changes in the prison and parole populations. As shown in the figure, the prison population is projected to decrease by about 3,400 (4  percent) from 94,200 in 2023-24 to 90,900 in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 20, 2018 - Finally, we recommend that the Legislature continue to seek additional information from the administration on its strategy for state office space in Sacramento before approving funding for the construction of these projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3758

The 2020-21 Budget: Debt Service on Infrastructure Bonds

Nov 20, 2019 - We assume that the state gradually sells bonds that have been approved by voters or the Legislature. These bonds include most of the remaining unsold infrastructure bonds that voters approved in November 2018 for children ’s hospitals and housing programs, as well as bonds approved in earlier years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4118

Debt Service on Infrastructure Bonds

Nov 15, 2017 - This ratio indicates the portion of the state ’s annual General Fund revenues and transfers that must be set aside for debt-service payments on infrastructure bonds and, therefore, are not available for other state programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3713

Ten Years Later: Progress Towards Expending the 2006 Bond Funds

Jan 3, 2017 - But Slow Bond Expenditures Not Always Problematic. Given the intent language of some of the 2006 bonds, some might expect all of the bonds approved in 2006 would have been sold by now. However, as described above, the history of the November 2006 bonds highlights that there are a number of reasons for lags in selling bonds that are not necessarily problematic or within the control of state agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3519

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

Apr 11, 2025 - The proposed formula does not take into account the amount of time people serve in prison or on parole. For example, there is no adjustment for the fact that people who are ultimately released to parole serve, on average, nearly six years in prison and around two years on parole.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions [Publication Details]

Oct 16, 2025 - This post discusses features of the state's spending plan that were not covered elsewhere in the 2025-26 Spending Plan series.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5081

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - The budget includes $ 125  m illion (non ‑Proposition  98 General Fund) ongoing to provide 10,000 full ‑day preschool slots for children from low ‑income families. The funding is to be the first of three augmentations, with the intent to provide a total of 30,000 additional slots to serve all low ‑income four ‑year olds by 2021 ‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916