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 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - Make Various Programmatic Enhancements ($6.6   Million Ongoing by 2027 ‑28). The proposal includes $4.6  million in 2025 ‑26 (growing to $6.6  million by 2027 ‑28) to make the following expansions to custody staffing and rehabilitative programming capacity: Provide Additional Custody Staff for Existing Areas of the Prison.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Feb 26, 2025 - 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 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

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 2023-24 Budget: Financing Approaches for Capital Outlay Projects

Feb 28, 2023 - To the extent the Legislature authorizes new lease revenue bonds for projects, we recommend the Legislature provide clear direction to the administration regarding which source of funds it intends to use to make debt service payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - (The Governor ’s budget makes a couple of newly proposed augmentations subject to the same suspension language —together representing $ 71  m illion in costs in 2020 ‑ 21 —but makes no other changes to the programs subject to the suspensions.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - The budget package includes statutory changes that prohibit CDTFA from making the adjustments scheduled for January 1, 2021 if the adjustments would result in higher tax rates. CDTFA would still be required to make the adjustments if they would result in lower tax rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277

The 2016-17 Budget: The Governor's State Office Building Proposal

Feb 9, 2016 - Thus, the administration ’s focus on infrastructure makes sense. However, based on our assessment, we make several recommendations below related to the specifics of the Governor ’s proposal for state office buildings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3347