The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for the Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 20, 2019 - Specifically, $ 250  m illion would be available to cities and counties to support various activities, like conducting planning and making zoning changes, to help them meet new short ‑term housing production goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3941

The 2019-20 Budget: What Can Be Done to Improve Local Planning for Housing?

Feb 20, 2019 - One option could be to allocate some or all of future growth in local property and/or sales taxes within each county to jurisdictions based on their population growth. While such changes could be worthwhile, we caution that they would face several hurdles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

The 2019-20 Budget: What Can Be Done to Improve Local Planning for Housing? [Publication Details]

Feb 20, 2019 - Format: HTML Description: As part of the 2019‑20 Governor’s Budget, the administration proposes changing state oversight of local housing decisions and proposes offering rewards to cities and counties to encourage them to plan for and approve housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3938

The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for the Governor's Housing Plan [Publication Details]

Feb 20, 2019 - In this report, we describe the Governor’s proposed $1.75 billion appropriation for various programs aimed at improving the affordability of housing in the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3941

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of Governor's Criminal Justice Proposals

Feb 19, 2019 - (The previous honorable discharge process was effectively eliminated when responsibility for supervising DJJ parolees was shifted —or realigned —from the state to county probation departments in 2010.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3940

The 2019-20 Budget: Proposition 56 Revenues: Reductions in Fixed Allocations

Feb 14, 2019 - The 2019-20 Budget: Proposition 56 Revenues: Reductions in Fixed Allocations Department of Public Health —Enforcement 6.0 California Department of Tax and Fee Administration —Enforcement 6.0 5.5 No Multiyear Proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3939

The 2019-20 Budget: Proposition 56 Revenues: Reductions in Fixed Allocations [Publication Details]

Feb 14, 2019 - In this post, we review the administration’s reductions to certain allocations of Proposition 56 tobacco tax revenue. In our view, the administration’s approach for 2019-20 is reasonable. However, the administration has not yet decided how these adjustments will be determined in 2020-21 and beyond.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3939

The 2019-20 Budget: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 14, 2019 - There are about 9,000 water systems in California regulated by the state and counties (generally those with four or more service connections —usually the point of access between a water system ’s service pipe and a user ’s piping).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3933

The 2019-20 Budget: Proposition 98 Analysis

Feb 13, 2019 - COLA = cost ‑of ‑living adjustment and COEs = county offices of education. Assessment and Recommendation Providing Annual COLA for Block Grants Has Benefits, Recommend Adopting. A COLA is a simple way to recognize cost increases over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3930

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 13, 2019 - First, the state pays managed care plans each month based on over a thousand individual rates, each of which corresponds to a type of Medi ‑Cal beneficiary in a particular county or region covered by a particular managed care plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3935