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

Feb 25, 2025 - First, Proposition  36 specified that selling drugs to a person who suffers a significant physical injury as a result of using the drug is a serious and violent crime. Second, the measure requires courts to warn people convicted of selling certain drugs that they could be charged with murder if they sell or provide illegal drugs that kill someone.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Rejects Administration Proposal to Allow DCC to “Seal ” Certain Premises. The budget rejects a Governor ’s proposal to authorize DCC to seal (that is, secure and prevent entry) a building or premises occupied by an unlicensed person in connection with illicit commercial cannabis activity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - Figure  2 shows the recent and projected changes in the prison and parole populations. As shown in the figure, the prison population is projected to decrease by about 3,400 (4  percent) from 94,200 in 2023-24 to 90,900 in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2018-19 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 20, 2018 - Finally, we recommend that the Legislature continue to seek additional information from the administration on its strategy for state office space in Sacramento before approving funding for the construction of these projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3758

The 2018-19 Budget: The May Revision—Deferred Maintenance [Publication Details]

May 15, 2018 - We further recommend that the Legislature seek information from the administration regarding causes of deferred maintenance at individual departments, as well as longer-term plans to prevent deferred maintenance from continuing to accumulate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3841

Evaluating California's Pursuit of Zero Net Energy State Buildings

Nov 14, 2017 - This is because the cap established under the cap ‑and ‑trade program sets a limit on the amount of GHG emitted in the state. As such, the cap serves as a backstop to ensure that emission goals are met, regardless of the state ’s approach to greening its buildings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3711

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions [Publication Details]

Oct 16, 2025 - This post discusses features of the state's spending plan that were not covered elsewhere in the 2025-26 Spending Plan series.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5081

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

Apr 11, 2025 - The proposed formula does not take into account the amount of time people serve in prison or on parole. For example, there is no adjustment for the fact that people who are ultimately released to parole serve, on average, nearly six years in prison and around two years on parole.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Ten Years Later: Progress Towards Expending the 2006 Bond Funds

Jan 3, 2017 - But Slow Bond Expenditures Not Always Problematic. Given the intent language of some of the 2006 bonds, some might expect all of the bonds approved in 2006 would have been sold by now. However, as described above, the history of the November 2006 bonds highlights that there are a number of reasons for lags in selling bonds that are not necessarily problematic or within the control of state agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3519

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

Jan 13, 2020 - Two key factors are: Slowing Economic Growth. There are several signals that the economy may be cooling. For example, housing markets have been stagnant, job growth is down, and trade activity is slowing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135