The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - Curtailment Orders (State). When water supplies become critically low, such as during droughts, SWRCB can issue curtailment orders that temporarily reduce how much water users can divert. SWRCB applies these rules based on seniority, curtailing junior rights holders before senior rights  holders.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2026-27 Budget: Permitting Support at the State Water Resources Control Board

Mar 2, 2026 - Permits can be issued as a “general ” order that applies to a whole class of projects, or an individual order tailored to a specific project. Individual orders are more workload-intensive for the water boards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5144

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

Dec 9, 2025 - Modifying Prioritization Order Affects How Much Funding Programs Receive Under Lower Revenue Scenarios. The order in which statutory allocations are made plays a key role in determining how much funding goes to each program under lower revenue scenarios.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5097

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

May 30, 2025 - San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board ’s Order in Riverside County. CSM determined that several of the requirements in the permit issued by the regional board in 2010 constitute state-reimbursable mandates for Riverside County and the cities of Riverside County that are within the San Diego region.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

New Infrastructure Legislation: Summary and Issues for Legislative Oversight

Aug 8, 2023 - For example, is there evidence that these policy changes affect how the state ’s projects score under competitive IRA and IIJA programs? If so, by how much? Is there information on how much additional funding is secured by the state as a result of these changes?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4785

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

Mar 19, 2026 - If it needs to provide less funding, the Legislature could also consider revisiting LCI ’s statutory requirements, time lines, and associated resource needs —for example, by reducing expectations around how the office should implement the CalHeatScore extreme heat ranking.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

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

Feb 24, 2026 - Annual reduction of $49  million to transportation funding that the state provides to cities and counties for work on their local streets and roads. State transportation funding suballocated to cities and counties for these purposes is projected to be around $3.9  billion annually —meaning this proposal would result in a reduction of about 1   percent each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

The 2026-27 Budget: Cap-and-Invest Expenditure Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - Given the continued uncertainty around cap ‑and ‑invest revenues, we recommend the Legislature closely monitor upcoming quarterly auctions —in February  and May 2026 —to assess how revenues are materializing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5114

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

Feb 10, 2026 - Moreover, the state and federal governments provide a total of close to $5  billion annually for school nutrition programs, and over the past few years the state has allocated supplemental funds to schools in order to improve their ability to provide more healthy meals, procure California ‑grown foods, and incorporate more freshly prepared foods.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2025 - The decrease is largely associated with the expiration of one-time General Fund that DTSC received to address brownfields across the state and for cleanup activities related to the Exide facility in the City of Vernon.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080