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

Feb 26, 2025 - …Causing Proposition  47 Savings to Be Likely Underestimated. By overestimating the impact of Proposition  36, the administration underestimates the remaining prison population reduction still attributable to Proposition  47.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

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

Feb 25, 2025 - However, based on discussions with the department, it is our understanding that CDCR used the number of people that were admitted to prison for drug possession and certain lower‑level theft crimes in 2013‑14, the year before Proposition 47 (2014) reduced prison admissions for these crimes by converting them to misdemeanors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

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

Apr 11, 2025 - These include the 2011 public safety realignment, which created the other forms of county felony supervision, among other changes, and Proposition  47 (2014), which reduced various drug and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Proposition  2 (2014) requires the state to spend a specified amount of money (determined through a budgetary formula) each year towards eligible liabilities. It has been state policy to satisfy this requirement through the state ’s General Fund contributions to prefund retiree health benefits and annual supplemental pension payments to the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2019-20 Budget: Deferred Maintenance

Feb 8, 2019 - Figure 2 Administration ’s 2019 ‑20 Deferred Maintenance Proposals ( In Millions) Hastings College of the Law 1.0 $613.6 a Funds can also be spent on on ‑campus childcare facilities. b $34 million from the General Fund and $11.6 million from Proposition 68 ($11.5 million of the Proposition 68 amount can also be spent on projects that increase tourism and visitor
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3929

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - In 2014, the state approved Chapter  695 (S B  1391 , Hancock), which opened the way for districts to provide in ‑person instruction at state prisons by allowing them to receive regular state funding for closed ‑to ‑the ‑public courses offered to incarcerated people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

Ten Years Later: Progress Towards Expending the 2006 Bond Funds

Jan 3, 2017 - With the exception of Proposition 84—which was placed on the ballot through the initiative process —these bonds were placed on the ballot by the Legislature. In some cases, the Legislature expressed its desire for these funds to be spent within about a decade.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3519

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - These funds are being loaned from unspent monies that support the board ’s Proposition  64 Public Health and Safety Grant Program. $75  million augmentation in 2024-25 and ongoing from the newly created Gun Violence Prevention and School Safety fund, which receives revenues from a new firearm and ammunition tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

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

Jan 13, 2020 - The nearby box provides more information on Proposition  98 and the overall changes in school and community college spending. $2   Billion in Additional Payments on Debts and Liabilities. In addition, under the rules of Proposition  2 (2014), the Governor ’s budget includes $ 2  b illion General Fund in constitutionally required debt payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2015-16 Budget: Effectively Implementing the 2014 Water Bond [Publication Details]

Feb 11, 2015 - On November 4, 2014, voters approved the water bond measure—Proposition 1. In this report, we (1) describe Proposition 1, (2) review the Governor’s proposals to implement the bond, (3) identify key implementation principles, and (4) recommend steps for the Legislature to ensure that the bond is implemented effectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3171