The 2021-22 Budget: Trial Court Operations Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - State law requires that any excess property tax revenues collected by COEs beyond their LCFF allotments be used to offset state General Fund support of trial courts. The transfer occurs at the direction of DOF and the State Controller ’s Office the year after the taxes are collected.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4362

The 2021-22 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - Historically, the level of administration was based on federal and state requirements, as State Preschool was funded in part with CCDBG funding. Since 2019 ‑20, however, State Preschool has been funded entirely from the state General Fund and no longer has to comply with federal CCDBG requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4363

The 2021-22 Budget: Child Care Proposals [Publication Details]

Feb 11, 2021 - This post analyzes the Governor’s proposal to transition state administration of child care programs. We further provide options the Legislature could consider to support child care programs during the pandemic. Correction (2/18/2021): A previous version of this post stated DSS released a draft of the transition plan. This version is corrected to state DSS released a transition plan guide.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4363

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - The state and federal funding reductions described above are partially offset by some notable increases in federal and state child welfare spending in 2021 ‑22: State and Federal Increases for Home ‑Based Family Care (HBFC) Rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4364

The 2021-22 Budget: Interest Payment on Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan [Publication Details]

Feb 10, 2021 - In addition, we recommend the Legislature take advantage of a provision of federal law that allows states to defer 75 percent of their UI loan interest payments during economic downturns. If the state chooses to partially defer its interest payment, we estimate the 2021-22 UI loan interest payment would total roughly $65 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4360

The 2021-22 Budget: Creating a New Department of Better Jobs and Higher Wages [Publication Details]

Feb 10, 2021 - Furthermore, reorganizing a portion of the Employment Development Department during the pandemic poses potentially serious risks to the state's efforts to eliminate the growing backlog of unemployment insurance claims that have not been distributed to workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4361

The 2021-22 Budget: Interest Payment on Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan

Feb 10, 2021 - Employers pay both state and federal UI payroll taxes. State UI tax revenues are deposited into the state ’s UI trust fund to pay benefits to unemployed workers. State UI tax rates are set based on rate schedules laid out in state law.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4360

The 2021-22 Budget: Creating a New Department of Better Jobs and Higher Wages

Feb 10, 2021 - Currently, these entities all reside within the state ’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency, which integrates policy to align the state ’s workforce programs. Proposal Governor Proposes to Create New Department Using Statutory Process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4361

The 2021-22 Budget: Department of Justice [Publication Details]

Feb 10, 2021 - This publication provides our analysis of the Governor's 2021-22 January budget proposals related to the support of forensic services and Department of Justice legal services for certain state agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4354

The 2021-22 Budget: CalAIM: The Overarching Issues

Feb 9, 2021 - For example, the California State Auditor recently found that utilization of children ’s preventive services in Medi ‑ Cal —which managed care plans are primarily responsible for arranging —lags that of most other state Medicaid programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4357