The 2023-24 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 22, 2023 - Under State Law, Local Revenue Growth Automatically Triggers CalWORKs Grant Increases. Following a major realignment of state and local responsibilities in 1991, some funds generated by the state sales tax and vehicle license fee accrue to a special fund with a series of subaccounts which pay for a variety of health and human services programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4699

2004-05 Budget Perspectives and Issues: Major Expenditure Proposals in the 2004-05 Budget

Due to the severity of the state's fiscal situation, we recommend the Legislature suspend the minimum guarantee for 2002-03 and 2003-04, thereby eliminating the $966  million future obligation. If the state does not suspend the minimum guarantee for 2002-03 and 2003-04, the state will be obligated to pay off the $966  million in the near term
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/2004_pandi/pi_part_4b_anl04.htm

An Update on California Competes [EconTax Blog]

Mar 10, 2023 - One potential interpretation is that the state is making high risk-high reward bets on businesses. While many of these bets do not pan out, the ones that do can be successful enough to yield overall benefits for the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/771

An Update on California Competes [EconTax Blog]

Mar 10, 2023 - One potential interpretation is that the state is making high risk-high reward bets on businesses. While many of these bets do not pan out, the ones that do can be successful enough to yield overall benefits for the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/771

^[PDF] The 2023-24 Budget: Considering Inflation’s Effects on State Programs

Other benefit costs—such as for pensions, retiree health, and employee health benefits—also tend to increase with inflation. For example, state costs for retiree health are driven by the number of retirees receiving the benefit and the cost of health premiums.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2022/4647/Inflation-Effects-on-State-Programs-111622.pdf

The 2023-24 Budget: Financing Approaches for Capital Outlay Projects

Feb 28, 2023 - For example, if the state has a budget deficit, bonds can fund important projects w ithout forcing the state to cut into existing programs. On the other hand, cash financing has certain benefits over bonds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4709

The 2023-24 Budget: Assessment of Covered California Budget Solution

Feb 13, 2023 - As a result, the federal subsidies have largely supplanted the state subsidies. We provide more details on the specific state and federal actions regarding premium subsidies, and the interactions between the state and federal subsidies, in the following paragraphs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4681

The 2023-24 Budget: County Probation Grants to Support Temporary Increase in the Supervision Population

Feb 23, 2023 - Specifically, before realignment, all people released from state prison were supervised in the community by state parole agents. Following realignment, however, state parole agents only supervise people released from prison whose current offense is classified as serious or violent as well as certain others, such as high-risk sex offenders.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4703

^[PDF] LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: 2004-05 P&I Chapter

LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: 2004-05 P&I Chapter 00-01 02-03 04-05 06-07 08-09 Long-Term Test 2 Current Law With $2 Billion Suspension State Savings From a Proposition 98 Suspension aLAO Estimates. 82 Part IV: Perspectives on State Expenditures The shaded area shown in Figure 10 represents the savings to the state from the Governor’s proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/2004_pandi/pandi_04.pdf

The 2023-24 Budget: Total Compensation Studies [Publication Details]

May 24, 2023 - As part of the May Revision, the Governor proposed amending Section 19826 of the Government Code to establish a biennial compensation report for state employees. This post is our analysis of the Governor’s proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4773