The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - Trailer legislation (Chapter  24) does not specify how funds will be allocated across these three purposes or across counties. Participation in the program is optional at the county level. Makes Changes to Eligibility Criteria and Family Reporting Requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/4

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - The budget includes a number of changes to the IHSS cost sharing arrangement between the state and counties, including shifting some costs from the state to counties, establishing a new county IHSS maintenance ‑of ‑effort (MOE), and providing some General Fund assistance to counties to meet the new MOE.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/7

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - As required by Proposition  56 (2016), the budget provides $32  million in new cigarette tax revenue to support tobacco use prevention education in California schools. The funds are to be allocated in accordance with the existing Tobacco Use Prevention Education program administered by CDE.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/3

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - In conjunction with SB  1, the Legislature passed separate legislation to amend the 2016 ‑17 budget to provide an additional $927  million from various existing fund sources for specific transportation projects located in Riverside County and certain parts of the Central Valley.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/10

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - This is primarily due to (1)  $52  million in increased revenue to the State Parks and Recreation Fund (SPRF) under Chapter  5 of 2017 (SB  1, Beall), which directed any additional revenue from increased motor vehicle fuel tax revenue attributable to off ‑highway recreational vehicles to SPRF; (2)  one ‑time Proposition  40 (2002) funding of $26  million for local assistance
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/9

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - Requires the establishment of a state office to collect fees and taxes in the County of Humboldt, Trinity, or Mendocino. Sacramento Infrastructure Projects State Project Infrastructure Fund (SPIF) Transfers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/12

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - The Governor also proposed other discretionary increases, including $400  million in assistance to counties to offset some of their cost increases associated with the termination of the Coordinated Care Initiative (CCI).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/2

The 2017-18 Budget: California Spending Plan

Oct 18, 2017 - The spending plan includes budget ‑related legislation revising the state ’s reversion policy for unused county MHSA funding. The MHSA, approved by voters in 2004, generally requires unused county MHSA funding to revert to the state after three years and be made available for use by other counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3694/6

LAO Multiyear State Budget Outlook

May 19, 2017 - The differences in these outlooks are nearly entirely driven by different assumptions about how much revenue, in particular from the personal income tax (PIT), that state will collect over the next few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3675

A History of California’s Budget Reserves

Mar 24, 2017 - State revenues, particularly those from the personal income tax (PIT), are volatile . In particular, the PIT tax base includes capital gains (gains on the sale of stocks, bonds, certain homes, and other assets), which vary considerably from year to year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3630