The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 26, 2025 - However, the flaws we identify above are conceptual problems that can be improved through reasonable assumptions in areas where actual data is lacking. We will continue to monitor Proposition  36 implementation and the prison population and make recommendations based on the updated information available at the May Revision, including the administration ’s revised estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Feb 25, 2025 - However, the key flaws we identify above are conceptual problems that can be improved through reasonable assumptions in areas where actual data are lacking. We will continue to monitor CDCR’s populations and the other factors affecting the proposed adjustments and make recommendations based on the updated information available at the May Revision, including the administration’s revised population projections.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Apr 11, 2025 - This would make estimates of performance more accurate and potentially more achievable for some counties. Although making this change might only result in modest changes to the statewide performance payment, compared to the Governor ’s proposal, it may have a larger impact on smaller, more rural, counties that are more affected by small changes in failure-to-prison rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - In addition, the budget package includes language that would allow the Department of Finance to make payments from the General Fund for any fines related to staffing vacancies in the Coleman v. Newsom court case related to the provision of prison mental health care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - We envision an approach that assigns priority for courses to new students who have less than five years left on their sentences and continuing students making good progress toward their first degree.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

Evaluating California's Pursuit of Zero Net Energy State Buildings

Nov 14, 2017 - For example, if electricity rates increase, it will tend to make ZNE more cost effective because there will be greater savings from not having to purchase the increasingly expensive utility power. An Example Where Cost ‑Benefit Analysis Provided Valuable Information.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3711

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons [Publication Details]

Jul 1, 2024 - Due to legislation enacted a decade ago, the availability of postsecondary courses at state prisons has expanded significantly. In this report, we focus on California Community College programs at state prisons. After providing background on these programs, we cover trends in student outcomes and explain how these programs are funded.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4913

The 2016-17 Budget: Governor’s General Fund Deferred Maintenance Proposal

Feb 12, 2016 - For example, energy efficiency projects identified as deferred maintenance needs by some departments such as the Office of Emergency Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs might be able to be funded by cap –and –trade auction revenues or various state revolving fund programs (where project costs are recouped over time through the project ’s energy savings).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3353

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

Jan 14, 2019 - Of this amount, $ 250  m illion could support various local government activities, like conducting planning and making zoning changes. As local governments reach these new goals, an additional $ 500  m illion would be available to cities and counties for general purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—Deferred Maintenance

May 15, 2018 - Maintaining the state ’s flood infrastructure is critical because levees in poor conditions (partially due to damage from the severe storms of 2016) pose a significant risk to health and safety should they fail, and the state holds liability for any damage that occurs as a result of poorly maintained levees in most of the Central Valley, where this funding is proposed to be used.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3841