The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - CHP receives roughly 60  percent of the MVA revenues ($3  billion) annually, with most of the remainder supporting activities at the Department of Motor Vehicles. Growth in CHP ’s expenditures, however, has been outpacing the MVA ’s revenue increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Transportation

Sep 10, 2024 - The 2024 ‑25 budget provides a total of $3  million on an ongoing basis from the Public Transportation Account for the High-Speed Rail Authority Office of the Inspector General. This is an increase of $2  million from the estimated 2023 ‑24 level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4925

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 16, 2025 - New spending includes $53.1  million from MVA on a one-time basis and 90 temporary positions to complete the vehicle registration phase of the DXP information technology (IT) project. This large project also received one-time funding allocations in 2024-25 and prior years, and will need subsequent appropriations to complete forthcoming phases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5077

The 2023-24 Budget: Proposed Reauthorization of AB 8 Vehicle Fees

Feb 24, 2023 - First, the proposal would limit eligibility for CTP funding to zero ‑emission technologies. (CTP historically has funded both low ‑emission and zero ‑emission technologies, although has begun to prioritize the latter in recent years.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4708

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Transportation

Oct 17, 2019 - The budget provides $3  million from the MVA to implement Chapter  367 of 2018 (SB  957, Lara), which requires DMV issue more than one clean air vehicle decal to specified zero- and low-emissions vehicles to applicants who make 80  percent or less of the statewide median household income.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4098

Road Charge Pilot Program Update

Sep 15, 2016 - Such necessary information includes the (1) specific costs and challenges related to the enforcement of a mileage-based road charge, (2) privacy concerns of the general public related to collecting their mileage data, and (3) overall administrative costs for a road charge program at the statewide level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3499

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Transportation

Dec 21, 2018 - Each program generally falls into one of four categories: ( 1)  d emonstrations and pilots, ( 2)  e arly commercial deployment of new technologies, ( 3)  p rograms focused on reducing local pollution through fleet turnover, and ( 4)  i nstalling fueling or charging infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/report/3912

The 2025-26 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 12, 2025 - Based on the administration ’s estimated expenditures, the proposed fund transfers would provide sufficient resources to keep MVA balanced in 2025 ‑26 without needing to make changes to service levels for MVA ‑supported programs or increasing fees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4961

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

Dec 13, 2023 - This reflects modeling assumptions from the California Air Resources Board ’s (CARB ’s) 2022 Scoping Plan, which assumes the state takes actions to implement the following: (1) ensure that 100 percent of new light ‑duty vehicle sales are zero ‑emission vehicles (ZEVs) by 2035, (2) ensure that 100 percent of new medium ‑ and heavy ‑duty vehicle sales are ZEVs by 2040, and (3)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4821

The 2018-19 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Feb 8, 2018 - According to Caltrans, new technologies emerged after the initiation of the S B   1077 p ilot that now make a pay ‑at ‑the pump option feasible to study. Moreover, Caltrans believes the pay ‑at ‑the ‑pump option has a key advantage over the options tested in the S B   1077 p ilot because drivers already are familiar with paying gas taxes when filling up at the pump.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3745