The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The 2025-26 budget distributes to departments ongoing reductions to state operations expenditures of $1.6  billion ($1.2  billion General Fund) under Control Section 4.05 (see Attachment 2 of a May 14, 2025 DOF letter).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Capital Outlay

Oct 17, 2019 - Projects in three departments received nearly three-quarters of the capital outlay funds approved: Department of General Services (DGS) ($1.1  billion), California State University ($1  billion), and California Community Colleges ($539  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4105

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - Judicial Branch The budget provides $5.2  billion for the judicial branch in 2024- 25 —a net decrease of $85  million (2  percent) from the revised 2023-24 level. This includes $3  billion from the General Fund and $499  million from the counties, with most of the remaining balance from fine, penalty, and court fee revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2020-21 Budget: Debt Service on Infrastructure Bonds

Nov 20, 2019 - In total, we estimate that the amount the state pays for debt service from the General Fund will grow from $5.7  billion in the current year to $6.4  billion in 2023 ‑24. Our projections do not include any additional debt service costs for new bonds that might be authorized by the voters or the Legislature during the forecast period, such as Proposition  13, a
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4118

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - The budget provides $8.1  billion from various funds for debt service payments in 2019 ‑20. This represents an increase of 1  percent from 2018 ‑19. This total includes $7.1  billion for general obligation bonds ($4.7  billion from the General Fund) and $1  billion for lease revenue bonds ($651  million from the General Fund).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions

Oct 7, 2020 - Office of Emergency Services (OES) The budget provides OES with $1.6  billion (more than two-thirds from federal funds) in 2020 ‑21. This is a net decrease of $2.2  billion, or 57  percent, compared to the estimated spending level for 2019 ‑20.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4277

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

Jan 13, 2020 - While the Governor commits a good portion of the surplus to one‑time purposes, he proposes spending $1.6 billion on ongoing purposes—growing to $1.9 billion over time. This effectively would eliminate the budget’s operating surplus under his proposals and estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 20, 2018 - This includes close to $900  million in projects already approved, $1.3  billion in projects proposed as part of the Governor ’s 2018 ‑19 budget, and $1.2  billion for the remaining five projects that are in the Statewide Office Building Strategy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3758

Implementing the 2006 Bond Package: Increasing Effectiveness Through Legislative Oversight [Publication Details]

Jan 22, 2007 - With more than $18 billion allocated to new programs, effective legislative oversight is critical to the success of the programs. In this report, we offer key considerations and recommendations to assist the Legislature in implementing the bonds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1537

The Administration’s Sacramento Office Building Construction Strategy: Ensuring Robust Oversight

Dec 14, 2016 - Additionally, this $3  billion estimate includes the $1.3  billion already approved in 2016 –17 for the initial three projects. To the extent that there are changes to the costs of these projects, it would also affect the overall cost of the strategy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3516