The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 4

Oct 16, 2025 - The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 4 $3,470 35% a $181 million of this amount was provided through Chapter 2 of 2025 (AB 100, Gabriel) and was available for administering departments to expend beginning in April 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5076

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

Oct 16, 2025 - To achieve budget savings, the spending plan also reverts $32  million General Fund that was previously appropriated for the acquisition phase of a new CalFire training center, as highlighted earlier in Figure  4.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - For example, the budget includes $3  million on an ongoing basis from PUCURA to implement Chapter  413 of 2024 (AB  2666, Boerner), which is aimed at ensuring electric and gas utilities do not recover more than their authorized rates of return from consumers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - This includes 32 pending test claims and 4 additional claims for which CSM has already identified state-reimbursable mandated activities but has not yet developed cost estimates. Each test claim submitted to CSM is different and has to be considered individually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2025-26 Budget: Cap-and-Trade Reauthorization and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Proposals at May Revision

May 19, 2025 - The planned reductions affect multiyear spending plans included in prior budget agreements for activities such as the AB  617 community air protection program, support for local transit agencies, and various zero-emission vehicle programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5049

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Cap-and-Trade Reauthorization [Publication Details]

May 7, 2025 - This report is intended to help inform legislative decision-making around reauthorization of the cap-and-trade program. It is submitted pursuant to Chapter 135 of 2017 (AB 398, Garcia), which requires our office to report annually on the economic impacts and benefits of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5042

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Cap-and-Trade Reauthorization

May 7, 2025 - Assembly Bill  32 gave CARB almost complete discretion over how to design the cap ‑and ‑trade program. Since the program ’s establishment, much of the Legislature ’s role has revolved around how to spend GGRF revenues, including establishing ongoing statutory allocations and selecting discretionary allocations on an annual basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5042

Assessing California's Climate Policies [Publication Details]

May 7, 2025 - Assessing California's Climate Policies [Publication Details] HTML Description: Chapter 135 of 2017 (AB 398, E. Garcia), requires our office to report annually on the economic impacts and benefits of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets and on the state’s progress towards achieving those targets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5072

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - This includes 32 pending test claims and 4 additional claims for which CSM has already identified state-reimbursable mandated activities but has not yet developed cost estimates. (These are in addition to the four mandates —including the Santa Ana regional board mandate —which CSM already identified and assigned cost estimates over the past year.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: Various California Air Resources Board Proposals

Feb 24, 2025 - In addition to helping regulate pollutants that affect air quality, CARB is the lead state agency responsible for directing the state ’s efforts to meet the GHG reduction targets established in the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Chapter  488 of 2006, [A B  32 , N ú ñez ]) and subsequent legislation (such as Chapter 249 of 2016 [SB 32, Pavley] and Chapter 337 of 2022 [AB 1279, Muratsuchi]).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4980