The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 4

Oct 16, 2025 - Figure 2 Budget Package Approves New Positions to Implement Proposition 4 Department
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5076

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - This amount was approved via three different 2025 budget actions: (1) $181  million provided through Chapter  2 of 2025 (A B  100 , Gabriel) (these funds were available for departments to spend during the final few months of 2024 ‑25), (2) $2.9  million through Chapter  5 of 2025 (A B  102 , Gabriel), and (3) $3.3  billion through Chapter  104 of 2025 (S B  105 , Wiener).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5115

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - Its greater watershed —including the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and their tributaries (such as the Feather, American, Mokelumne, and Tuolumne Rivers) —drains water from about 40  percent of the state ’s landmass.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2025 - The 2025-26 DWR budget is down a net $2  billion (40  percent) from the estimated 2024-25 expenditure level, due primarily to the expiration of one-time funds. Below we discuss several notable changes in the DWR budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 10, 2022 - Eligible technologies include those related to (1)  zero-emission transportation; (2)  lithium processing, manufacturing, and recovery; (3)  regenerative agriculture; (4)  drought; and (5)  wildfire prevention.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4633

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposed Zero-Emission Vehicle Incentive

Feb 24, 2026 - California has established statutory goals for reducing statewide GHG emissions —down to at least 40  percent below the 1990 level by 2030, and to at least 85  percent below the 1990 level by  2045. Federal Air Quality Standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5140

Assessing California's Climate Policies—The 2022 Scoping Plan Update

Jan 4, 2023 - (CARB analyzes 2035 effects because Alternatives 1 and 2 would seek to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035.) Identifies More Aggressive 2030 GHG Goal. As it relates to the 2030 goal, perhaps the most significant change in the 2022 plan (as compared to previous Scoping Plans) is that it identifies a new GHG target of 48  percent below the 1990  level, compared to the current statutory goal of 40  percent below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4656

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Sep 12, 2024 - Specifically, it: (1)  shifts the fund source for the $150  million from General Fund to GGRF; (2)  delays $110  million of that intended funding to instead plan to provide $10  million in 2025 ‑26 and $50  million in both 2026 ‑27 and 2027 ‑28; and (3)  allocates $40  million in 2024 ‑25 to SCC to support acquisition of Wild Cherry Canyon, a 2,400 acre property near DCPP owned by Eureka Energy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4928

The 2022-23 Budget: State Water Resources Control Board—Bay-Delta Plan Update

Jan 31, 2022 - The board would benefit from additional in ‑house expertise to address upcoming workload associated with implementing Phase 1 and developing, adopting, and implementing Phase 2 of the Bay ‑Delta Plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4506

The 2022-23 Budget: Water and Drought Response Proposals

Jan 31, 2022 - As shown in Figure 2, the Governor proposes providing an additional $40 million for the land repurposing program that DOC initiated with $50 million in the current year. The goals of this program—to implement projects that reduce groundwater use, repurpose irrigated agricultural land to less water‑intensive uses, and provide wildlife habitat—represent important state priorities in the context of groundwater overuse and water limitations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4509