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

Feb 18, 2025 - Among survey respondents, 64  percent identified costs as a factor for not previously visiting state parks. Parks notes that while the program is available throughout the state, the department has taken steps to increase access within lower ‑income communities by providing a larger proportion of passes to library branches located in areas with high poverty index percentages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4967

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - A key strategy for reducing home losses during wildfires is for homeowners to maintain an area free of excess or dead vegetation around their homes, known as defensible space.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457

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

Sep 12, 2024 - Specifically, General Fund was planned for 64  percent of overall ZEV package support in the original agreement compared to 26  percent in the 2024 ‑25 spending plan, whereas GGRF support has increased from 14  percent to 56  percent of total planned funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4928

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

Jan 13, 2020 - The budget assumes 27,000 seniors will gain comprehensive coverage at a half ‑year cost of $ 64  m illion General Fund in 2020 ‑21 and an annual ongoing cost of $ 320  m illion General Fund at full implementation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Electricity Generation

Jan 6, 2020 - In this report, we assess the effects of the state’s major policies intended to reduce emissions from the generation of electricity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4131