LAO 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: In–Home Supportive Services (5180)

The original rationale for the SOC buyout program was that it allowed IHSS recipients to transfer from the Residual program to the other IHSS programs without increasing their SOC obligation, essentially holding them harmless.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2009/ss/ss_anl09003004.aspx

2007 Initiative Analysis: Homeowners and Private Property Protection Act

Proposal This measure constrains public agency authority to use eminent domain to acquire single-family homes (including condominiums) for the purpose of transferring the property to another private person or business.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2007/070472.aspx

2007 Initiative Analysis: Citizens Fair Districts Act (Version 4)

The plan must minimize the splitting of counties, cities, and “communities of interest” into multiple districts. When drawing boundaries, the commission could not consider information related to political party affiliations and other specified matters, except as required by federal law.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2007/070604.aspx

2007 Initiative Analysis: Identification Device Protection Act

Fiscal Impact This measure could have various fiscal effects, particularly in regard to local animal shelters operated by counties and cities affected by the measure’s provisions that block the adoption or enforcement of any ordinances that require that pets be implanted with RFID microchips.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2007/070764.aspx

2007 Initiative Analysis: Pet Animal Protection Act

It would also require animal rescue groups and other private shelters that adopt out animals transferred from local animal shelters to transfer to the public shelters 10  percent of the revenue generated from adoption activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2007/070767.aspx

2007 Initiative Analysis: The Victim’s Rights Act of 2008: Marsy’s Law (version 1)

The state, counties, and cities employ several thousand attorneys who specialize in the prosecution of criminal offenses. In general, pay and benefits for the attorneys are determined by the legislative bodies of their respective employers—including the Legislature, county boards of supervisors, and city councils—as a part of those bodies’ responsibilities to budget public funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2007/070870.aspx

2007 Initiative Analysis: The Victims’ Rights Protection Act of 2008: Implementation and Enforcement Tools for Victims, Prosecutors, and Judges

The state, counties, and cities employ several thousand attorneys who specialize in the prosecution of criminal offenses. In general, pay and benefits for the attorneys are determined by the legislative bodies of their respective employers—including the Legislature, county boards of supervisors, and city councils—as a part of those bodies’ responsibilities to budget public funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2007/070928.aspx

2008 Initiative Analysis: Save Our Schools and Public Services Act

Schools, community colleges, cities, special districts, and counties use property tax revenues to provide services. State law authorizes cities and counties to create redevelopment agencies to mitigate blight in urban sections of their communities that they call “redevelopment project areas.”
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2008/080111.aspx

2008 Initiative Analysis: The California Public Safety and Law Enforcement Act

The database would also include any officer deemed to be "troubled or at-risk " by the state, county, or city agencies that employ them. Requires Specified Law Enforcement Training. The measure requires state, county, and city law enforcement agencies to train officers in "diffusing situations and deescalating violence " and the use of alternatives to lethal force.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2008/080761.aspx

2009 Initiative Analysis: The McCauley-Rosen Wealth Tax and Oceans Preservation Act (Amendment #1-S)

The measure transfers $25  billion from the Environmental Superfund to the General Fund for five consecutive years. Beginning in the sixth year, the measure transfers $10  billion annually from the superfund into the General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2009/090486.aspx