The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - However, the provided funding was unallocated and subject to Judicial Council ’s discretion. b Does not include funding provided specifically for increased trial court health and retirement benefits as the state covers such costs in full.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - To  help ensure sufficient revenues would be available to support BOF workload, Chapter  736 of 2019 (A B  1669 , Bonta) enabled DOJ to increase the DROS fee charged from $19 to $31.19. For a couple years after this fee increase, revenues generally exceeded expenditures —thereby allowing the fund balance to steadily grow.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

Achieving the Goals of the SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Oct 10, 2023 - It is reasonable to think that S B  678 partially contributed to these reductions. For  example, data suggest that S B  678 successfully diverted thousands of people from prison in the initial years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4806

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - State law further requires our office to analyze any new mandates identified b y the Commission as a part of our annual analysis of the state budget. In particular, state law directs our office to report on the annual state costs for new mandates and make recommendations to the Legislature as to whether the new mandates should be repealed, funded, suspended, or modified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2023-24 Budget: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 16, 2023 - Chapter  827 of 2022 (S B  1008 , Becker) specifies that CDCR shall provide accessible, functional voice calls free of charge. On January 1, 2023, CDCR began implementing this requirement by paying all charges accrued for voice calls.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4686

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

Jan 31, 2022 - How Will S B   2 Implementation Affect the Program? As discussed above, POST faces considerable S B  2 implementation challenges, including the need to roughly double its workforce by January 1, 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4507

Potential Impacts of Recent State Asset Forfeiture Changes

Jan 6, 2020 - In analyzing the data, we identified a number of challenges with the data that make it difficult to isolate and determine the economic impact of the changes enacted by S B  443 . Data Reflect Impacts of Changes Outside of S B 443 A number of other changes occurred regarding asset forfeiture at both the federal and state level at or around the same time S B   443 b ecame effective in January 2017.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4128

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

Jan 13, 2020 - Under the Governor ’s proposed budget, the state would end 2020 ‑21 with $20. 5  b illion in total reserves. This represents an increase of $1. 7  b illion from the 2019 ‑ 20 e nacted reserve level of $18. 8  b illion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2021-22 Budget: State Correctional Population Outlook

Nov 19, 2020 - In total, we project that employee compensation costs will increase by roughly $2. 5  b illion between 2020 ‑21 and 2024 ‑25. Accordingly, the reduction in population ‑related costs will result in CDCR ’s budget growing by only around $ 1  b illion by 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4304?utm_source=laowww&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4304

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - Based on the data CalHR provided us, far more Unit 6 members have 457(b) accounts (20,241 members with accounts) than 401(k) accounts (4,599 members with accounts). The administration indicates that the average balances of Unit 6 457(b) and 401(k) accounts was $20,803 and $27,272, respectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800