The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - This makes it difficult for the Legislature to determine whether it agrees with what monies are being considered for transfer back to th e General Fund. Second, the proposed language does not include any requirements for legislative notification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 11, 2026 - When and how this loan would be repaid could be considered as part of the Legislatur e ’s deliberations on how to support firearm-related workload on an ongoing basis. Such an action would ensure that existing BOF operations are maintained while the Legislature weighs its options for how to support firearm-related workload moving forward.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5118

The 2026-27 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 23, 2026 - Conducting oversight to ensure thes e parts of the plan are being implemented in a timely and effective manner will be important to reaching a constitutional level of care. The Legislature could do so by requesting annual updates on the progress made through reports and in budget hearings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 24, 2025 - In addition, the budget provides $5  million one time to support initial implementation of Chapter  576 of 2022 (AB  778, E. Garcia), which requires CDCR to ensure that at least 60  percent of the agricultural food products that it purchases are grown or produced in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5085

The 2017-18 Budget: Department of Justice

Jan 31, 2017 - Proposition  56, which was approved by the voters in November 2016, increases the state excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products (including e-cigarettes). The measure requires that the revenues from the increased tax be used to support various specified purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3543

State Corrections: Response to COVID-19

May 8, 2020 - However, CDCR has taken steps to reduce costs and expand access to other forms of external communication for inmates such as phone calls and e-mails. Screening of Individuals Authorized to Enter Prisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4229

The 2022-23 Budget: Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training

Jan 31, 2022 - Th e additional administrative staff include six human resources positions, six information technology positions, five positions for accounting and procurement, and four positions for communications and Public Records Act requests.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4507

The 2022-23 Budget: Monitoring Correctional System Staff Misconduct Investigations

Feb 9, 2022 - (We note that there are two categories of grievances, health car e grievances and all other grievances, which we refer to in this post as regular grievances.) For example, an inmate might file a grievance arguing that the temperature inside his or her cell is excessively hot.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4520

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 26, 2022 - Th e budget package also changed state law to reduce the amount of civil assessment that could be imposed from a maximum of $300 to a maximum of $100. On net, these two changes require a $67  million backfill to maintain trial court funding levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4625

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - This transfer can only occur 30 days after written notification is provided to th e Legislature. DOJ Required to Report in 2022 on Potential Funding Options Other Than General Fund. The  2021 ‑22 budget package required DOJ to provide a report by March  10, 2022 that identified various options —other than the General Fund —to support BFS annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972