The 2026-27 Budget: Permitting Support at the State Water Resources Control Board

Mar 2, 2026 - We recomme nd approving the proposal, which appears justified based on workload data. We suggest the Legislature also consider adopting certain statutory amendments to increase the efficiency of this permitting work and provide SWRCB with improved enforcement tools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5144

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - This includes increased state support for a shared data collector application and ensuring that state and local agencies feed inspections data into a centralized system. Take Steps to Address Other Barriers to State and Local Efforts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457

Assessing Early Implementation of Urban Water Use Efficiency Requirements

Jan 4, 2024 - For each disclosable building, suppliers would then have to provide to the building owner its water use data for the previous year. Suppliers would have to provide data for at least 20  percent of disclosable buildings by 2026, at least 60  percent by 2028, and 100  percent by 2030.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4823

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

Feb 18, 2025 - Data Suggest Program Encourages Increased Park Visitation. While Parks has not collected data on the number of times the passes have been used to access state parks, it has conducted surveys to collect data from users of the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4967

The 2023-24 Budget: California Volunteers Proposed Program Expansions

Mar 1, 2023 - Premature to Provide Ongoing State Funding Before More Data Are Available About Program ’s Effectiveness. The Youth Jobs Corps program is still in its first year of operation, so comprehensive data are not yet available as to how well it is achieving its intended goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4723

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Tax Credit Proposal

Feb 24, 2026 - While such a scenario may seem far‑fetched, the most recent federal data show that California consumes more RD than is produced in the entire United States, indicating that producers have responded strongly to existing state policy incentives for renewable fuels by selling in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5139

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Water Resources

Mar 2, 2023 - Collecting and disseminating data and best practices, including: Collecting groundwater level data (and installing new monitoring wells to do so). Collecting statewide land use and land subsidence data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4725

The 2026-27 Budget: Framework for Approaching the Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, and Agriculture Budget

Feb 10, 2026 - This climate research is required by law to be completed every five years pursuant to Chapter  136 of 2020 (S B  1320 , Stern) and provides data and information that state agencies and local governments use to inform their planning and programmatic decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5116

The 2022-23 Budget: Office of Planning and Research Budget Proposals

Feb 9, 2022 - A precision medicine advisory committee subsequently advised the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the collection and use of genomic data. Their recommendations led to the All of Us Research Program , which is building a diverse database of genomic and health data to help advance precision medicine biomedical research.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4523

The 2023-24 Budget: CalRecycle’s Zero Waste Plan Proposal

Feb 28, 2023 - While the plan might be able to capture some early outcomes from the expanded program, the data collected likely would not be significant enough for the department to include a full assessment of the program ’s changes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4719