The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Health and Human Services [Publication Details]

Oct 17, 2019 - Major health-related policy actions include the reauthorization of a tax on managed care organizations (which will reduce the above-noted General Fund health spending by $1 billion, pending federal approval) and over $400 million General Fund for state-funded subsidies for health insurance purchased on the individual market through Covered California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4104

Fiscal Outlook: Developmental Services

Nov 15, 2017 - The state could increase General Fund revenues on a one-time basis from the sale of the state properties and buildings that house the DCs to a nonstate entity. It could also choose to repurpose one or more of these properties to generate a smaller amount of revenue to the state on an ongoing basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3717

Estimating the CalWORKs Take-Up Rate [Publication Details]

Feb 2, 2021 - This is the first in a series of several posts estimating the percentage of California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs)-eligible individuals who actually enroll in the program—otherwise known as the CalWORKs take-up rate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4340

Measuring CalWORKs Performance

Sep 6, 2017 - State Priorities Diverge From Federal Priorities, Requiring Balance At the same time the state has worked to come into compliance with the WPR requirement, the state has enacted policies that reflect priorities beyond simply meeting the federal WPR thresholds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3702

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of Proposed Increase in State Funding for Local Child Support Agencies [Publication Details]

Mar 26, 2019 - The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of Proposed Increase in State Funding for Local Child Support Agencies [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3989

The 2019-20 Budget: Assessing the Governor's 1991 Realignment Proposals [Publication Details]

Mar 8, 2019 - The 2019-20 Budget: Assessing the Governor's 1991 Realignment Proposals [Publication Details] Description: This report evaluates the changes the Governor proposes and assesses whether the changes better position 1991 realignment to achieve its intended benefits and meet the principles of a successful state-county fiscal partnership we identified in our October report.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3962

The 2019-20 Budget: Aligning the State’s IT Project Approval Process With the Annual Budget Process

Mar 14, 2019 - CDT, a department within the California Government Operations Agency, is the state ’s central IT organization and has broad authority over all aspects of technology in state government. One of CDT ’s responsibilities is to review and approve IT project proposals received from state agencies and departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3976

The 2017-18 Budget: Governor’s Proposal to Strengthen Information Security

Feb 28, 2017 - Not only can information secur ity breaches impede the state ’s ability to serve the public, but the costs both to the state and to the individuals affected could be substantial. We note that information maintained within the state ’s various IT systems has different levels of sensitivity and requires different levels of protection.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3594

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 28, 2017 - After the state reduced SSP grants to the federally required minimum levels, the state could no longer do this. Governor ’s Proposal Full-Year Cost of January 2017 SSP COLA.  The budget includes $73  million from the General Fund for a full year of funding for the COLA increase to the state ’s SSP portion of the grant, which became effective January 1, 2017.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3576/3

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions [Publication Details]

Oct 17, 2019 - The 2019-20 budget included significant augmentations and statutory changes in various other programs, including to support emergency services, the regulation of cannabis and alcoholic beverages, and construction and maintenance of state infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4101