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

Mar 2, 2026 - We recomme nd approving the proposal, which appears justified based on workload data. We suggest the Legislature also consider adopting certain statutory amendments to increase the efficiency of this permitting work and provide SWRCB with improved enforcement tools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5144

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - This includes increased state support for a shared data collector application and ensuring that state and local agencies feed inspections data into a centralized system. Take Steps to Address Other Barriers to State and Local Efforts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457

Assessing Early Implementation of Urban Water Use Efficiency Requirements

Jan 4, 2024 - For each disclosable building, suppliers would then have to provide to the building owner its water use data for the previous year. Suppliers would have to provide data for at least 20  percent of disclosable buildings by 2026, at least 60  percent by 2028, and 100  percent by 2030.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4823

Residential Water Use Trends and Implications for Conservation Policy

Mar 8, 2017 - The monthly update covering December 2016 was recently published on the board’s website , providing a full year of data for 2016. This web post discusses trends in residential water use and what these data imply for policymakers in the coming year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3611

Improving Outcomes for California Conservation Corpsmembers

Feb 9, 2018 - Lack of Outcome Data Makes It Difficult to Evaluate Programs Data Would Inform Operational Decisions. Better outcome data would help inform CCC ’s decisions about what program areas to focus on improving.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3742

The 2025-26 Budget: Natural Resources and Agriculture Discretionary Spending Proposals

Feb 18, 2025 - Data Suggest Program Encourages Increased Park Visitation. While Parks has not collected data on the number of times the passes have been used to access state parks, it has conducted surveys to collect data from users of the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4967

The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - Premature to Provide Ongoing State Funding Before More Data Are Available About Program ’s Effectiveness. The Youth Jobs Corps program is still in its first year of operation, so comprehensive data are not yet available as to how well it is achieving its intended goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723

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

Feb 24, 2026 - While such a scenario may seem far‑fetched, the most recent federal data show that California consumes more RD than is produced in the entire United States, indicating that producers have responded strongly to existing state policy incentives for renewable fuels by selling in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Water Resources

Mar 2, 2023 - Collecting and disseminating data and best practices, including: Collecting groundwater level data (and installing new monitoring wells to do so). Collecting statewide land use and land subsidence data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4725

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

Feb 10, 2026 - This climate research is required by law to be completed every five years pursuant to Chapter  136 of 2020 (S B  1320 , Stern) and provides data and information that state agencies and local governments use to inform their planning and programmatic decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116