The 2017-18 Budget: California Department of Food and Agriculture

Feb 28, 2017 - This is a net decrease of $63  million (or 14  percent) from the estimated current-year spending level. This year-over-year decrease in spending is mainly explained by (1)  an $89  million decrease in spending from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund —which receives revenue from cap-and-trade allowance auctions —reflecting a shift of these funds
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3591

The 2017-18 Budget: California State Payroll System

Feb 28, 2017 - October 25, 2012 —The SCO issues a second cure notice to the system integrator, SAP, requiring SAP to increase personnel on the project, reschedule project milestones, and stabilize the software so that Pilot  2 and Waves  3, 4, and 5 may go forward, among other requests.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3590

The 2017-18 Budget: The State Controller’s Office Unclaimed Property Program

Feb 24, 2017 - Holders must do this between six months and one year prior to their deadline to report the property to the SCO (the “holder report ”). Within 165 days of the holder report, SCO notifies owners that their property will escheat to the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3584

The 2017-18 Budget: Department of Consumer Affairs

Feb 17, 2017 - The positions would allow BRN to review school policies and practices regarding granting credit for military education and experience to applicants who have served in the military. Under the proposal, each nursing school would be reviewed every four years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3570

The 2017-18 Budget: Office Of Emergency Services (OES)

Feb 16, 2017 - This is because improved hydrologic conditions around the state will negate the need for some amount of state agency response compared to recent years. Based on improved hydrology and prior-year spending data, we find that OES might only require $14  million to provide emergency drinking water in the budget year, and it might be reasonable to reduce state operations funding for OES ’ drought response to about $1.7  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3563

The 2017-18 Budget: The Governor's Cannabis Proposals

Feb 14, 2017 - The uncertainties about the number of licensees and associated workload become even greater in out years as the share of new versus renewal applications would likely change compared to the initial years of regulation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3556

The 2017-18 Budget: The Governor's Cannabis Proposals [Publication Details]

Feb 14, 2017 - In the coming year, the Legislature will face key choices about whether it wants to make statutory changes to bring the regulatory frameworks of MCRSA and Proposition 64 into greater alignment. Additionally, the Legislature will need to determine the staff and other resources to provide to the various agencies charged with regulating and taxing the cannabis industry.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3556

The 2017-18 Budget: Military Department

Feb 10, 2017 - Background CMD ’s Armory Strategic Plan calls for renovating three armories per year. This plan would allow CMD to renovate most of its roughly 100 active armories within about 30 years and also result in the consolidation of certain armories.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3555

Improving California's Regulatory Analysis

Feb 3, 2017 - Although there have been some changes over the last 35 years, the key principles have largely remained in place. For example, most agencies issuing economically significant rules are required to select the approach that maximizes net benefits to society and demonstrate that the benefits of the rule justify the costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3542

The 2017-18 Budget: California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission

Feb 3, 2017 - In each of the past five fiscal years, CDIAC has underspent its budgeted authority by at least $200,000. Accordingly, it is not clear why additional budget authority is needed for the commission to maintain its current operations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3546