http://www.lao.ca.govThe latest Publications, Initiatives and Propositions from the Legislative Analyst's OfficePublications/HandoutsSupplemental Report Language Agenda, 2008-09 Budget Bill Conference Committeehttp://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/PubDetails.aspx?id=1878Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMTPublications/HandoutsWhat is the Status of UC Fee Lawsuits? (July 2008) This is one of a series of issue briefs examining important questions about higher education funding in California. For more information on this topic, or to request other briefs from this series, contact the Legislative Analyst’s Office Higher Education section at (916) 319-8349, or visit our website at www.lao.ca.gov/highered.http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/PubDetails.aspx?id=1877Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMTPublications/HandoutsInformational for various items of the 2008 Budget Conference Committee (various agenda pages).http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/PubDetails.aspx?id=1875Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMTPublications/HandoutsPresented to Conference Committeehttp://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/PubDetails.aspx?id=1872Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMTPublications/HandoutsDepartment of Water Resources—Proposition 84/1E Integrated Regional Water Managementhttp://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/PubDetails.aspx?id=1864Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMTPublications/HandoutsItem Number 3860, Agenda Pages: 155 and 156 Department of Water Resources—LAO Recommended Proposition 84/1E Flood Management Alternativehttp://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/PubDetails.aspx?id=1865Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMTPublications/HandoutsCalWORKs Major Issues In and Out of Conferencehttp://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/PubDetails.aspx?id=1871Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMTPublications/HandoutsAgenda Pages 338 and 339,Item 6110-001-0001—CDE State Operations, LAO Compromisehttp://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/PubDetails.aspx?id=1868Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMTPublications/HandoutsAgenda Pages 344, 348, and 358, Items 6110-195-0890, 6110-144-0001, and 6440-001-0001 LAO Compromise: Title II Carryover Fundshttp://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/PubDetails.aspx?id=1870Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMTPublications/HandoutsAgenda Page 370, Issue 050, Item 7980-001-0001, Language Only Authority for Student Aid Commission to Act as Lender-of-Last Resort (LLR)http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/PubDetails.aspx?id=1867Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMTPublications/HandoutsAgenda Pages 341 and 342—Issues 566, 567, 411, and 441 Items 6110-134-0890, 6110-125-0890, 6110-001-0001, and 6110-001-0890, LAO Compromise: K-12 School Improvement Proposalshttp://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/PubDetails.aspx?id=1869Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMTPublications/HandoutsAgenda Page 371, Issue 066 Trailer Bill Language for EdFund Salehttp://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/PubDetails.aspx?id=1866Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMTInitiatives/PropositionsThis measure amends the State Constitution to (1) constrain state and local governments’ authority to take private property and (2) phase out rent control. The measure also might constrain government’s authority to implement certain other programs and laws, such as mandatory inclusionary housing programs and tenant relocation benefits. The measure’s provisions apply to all governmental agencies.http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/ballot_source/BalDetails.aspx?id=696Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMTInitiatives/PropositionsThis constitutional amendment limits state and local government’s use of eminent domain in certain circumstances. Specifically, the measure prohibits government from using eminent domain to take a single-family home (including a condominium) for the purpose of transferring it to another private party (such as a person, business, or association). This prohibition, however, would not apply if government was taking the home under certain specified circumstances.http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/ballot_source/BalDetails.aspx?id=697Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:00:00 GMTInitiatives/PropositionsThis measure would amend the Constitution and state law to establish a state-funded umbilical cord blood bank and adult stem cell research center that would also facilitate the adoption of embryos.http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/ballot_source/BalDetails.aspx?id=706Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:00:00 GMTInitiatives/PropositionsThis measure requires redevelopment agencies to obtain approval by two-thirds of their county’s voters before pledging property tax increment revenues to pay a new bond, loan, advance, or other indebtedness.http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/ballot_source/BalDetails.aspx?id=705Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:00:00 GMTInitiatives/PropositionsThis measure allows, with certain restrictions, the legal cultivation, possession, use, transportation, and sale of marijuana.http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/ballot_source/BalDetails.aspx?id=704Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:00:00 GMTInitiatives/PropositionsThis measure amends Section 51500 of the Education Code to remove “promotes a discriminatory bias because of a characteristic listed in Section 220” and replace it with “reflects adversely upon persons because of their race, sex, color, creed, disability, national origin, religion, or ancestry.” As a result, the measure removes the prohibition against instruction that reflects adversely or promotes discrimination against persons because of their sexual orientation.http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/ballot_source/BalDetails.aspx?id=701Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:00:00 GMTInitiatives/PropositionsThe average retail price of a pack of cigarettes currently is roughly $4.25 in California, including all taxes. This measure increases the existing excise tax on cigarettes by 75 cents per pack effective May 1, 2009. Existing state law requires the Board of Equalization (BOE) to increase taxes on other tobacco products—such as loose tobacco and snuff—in an amount equivalent to any increase in the tax on cigarettes. Thus, this measure would also result in a comparable increase in the excise tax on other tobacco products. All of the additional tobacco revenues (including those on other tobacco products) would be used to support various new and existing programs specified in this measure.http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/ballot_source/BalDetails.aspx?id=703Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:00:00 GMTInitiatives/PropositionsThe average retail price of a pack of cigarettes currently is roughly $4.25 in California, including all taxes. This measure increases the existing excise tax on cigarettes by 75 cents per pack effective January 1, 2009. Existing state law requires the Board of Equalization (BOE) to increase taxes on other tobacco products—such as loose tobacco and snuff—in an amount equivalent to any increase in the tax on cigarettes. Thus, this measure would also result in a comparable increase in the excise tax on other tobacco products. All of the additional tobacco revenues (including those on other tobacco products) are intended to be used to support various new and existing programs specified in this measure.http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/ballot_source/BalDetails.aspx?id=702Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:00:00 GMTInitiatives/PropositionsThis measure would amend the State Constitution to fefine a viable fetus as one who “has attained sufficient development of organs as to be capable of living outside the uterus of the mother, with or with-out life support,” and state that a fetus would be presumed viable at 24 weeks and prohibit abortions on viable fetuses unless the mother’s life was endangered by certain physical conditions.http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/ballot_source/BalDetails.aspx?id=698Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:00:00 GMTInitiatives/PropositionsThis measure would amend the State Constitution to make it unlawful to perform or attempt to perform human cloning. This measure would also make it unlawful to buy, sell, transfer or receive any product of human cloning for any purpose. Furthermore, this measure would make it unlawful to buy, sell, transfer, or receive any embryo, fetus, or specified types of human cells for the purpose of human cloning. The measure would also amend the State Constitution and state law to define human cloning and certain other terms in a manner that would likely result in both reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning being banned.http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/ballot_source/BalDetails.aspx?id=700Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:00:00 GMTInitiatives/PropositionsThis measure would amend the State Constitution to ban “destructive research” on a human embryo and the sale or transfer of a human embryo or other specified human cells with the knowledge that the material would be used in such research. The measure would also amend the State Constitution and state law to define “destructive research” to be “medical procedures, scientific or laboratory research, or other kinds of investigation that kill or injure the subject of such research.” The measure would exempt from the definition of destructive research in vitro fertilization procedures and diagnostic procedures that may benefit the embryo.http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/ballot_source/BalDetails.aspx?id=699Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:00:00 GMT