California Public Higher Education: Funding Supplemental Services for Low-Income and First-Generation Students

Dec 20, 2017 - Components of K‑12 Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) Funding to School Districts Set by Three Rates. We describe the three rates below: Base Rates. Each school district receives a base amount per student.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3724

California Community Colleges: Interim Evaluation of Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program

Dec 19, 2017 - Historically, employers in these industries either have hired management graduates and provided them the necessary technical training or encouraged talented technical employees to return to school for a management degree.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3722

Impose new standards for confining certain farm animals. (Amendment No. 1) [Ballot]

Dec 14, 2017 - Proposal This measure phases in new requirements over the next several years that increase the minimum size of restrictive enclosures used by California farmers to confine egg-laying hens, breeding pigs, and calves raised for veal.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-042

Emergency medical personnel. (Amendment No. 1) [Ballot]

Dec 14, 2017 - In the other 25  percent of cases, the local fire department or municipality operates its own ambulance service and transports patients to hospitals themselves. Insurance Providers Pay for Ambulance Trips.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-043

Cap-and-Trade Extension: Issues for Legislative Oversight

Dec 12, 2017 - This is because it shifts some of the supply of allowances from earlier years to later years. Banking Has Significant Advantages, but Also Has Trade ‑offs. Some of the key advantages of banking include ( 1) l ess price volatility and ( 2) i ncentivizing some emission reduction activities in early years that are less costly than an equivalent number of reductions in later years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3719

Rent control. [Ballot]

Dec 12, 2017 - This is because state law guarantees schools and community colleges (schools) a minimum amount of funding each year through a combination of property taxes and state fun ds. If property taxes received by schools decrease (increase), state funding generally must increase (decrease).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-041

Evaluation of the Statewide Project Management Office

Dec 7, 2017 - Given that the PMO has only been directly involved with managing state IT projects for two years, we acknowledge that the PMO is in the early stages of establishing its capacity and processes as an office, especially as the PMO is intended to scale up to eventually manage larger, more complex projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3723

Improving In-Prison Rehabilitation Programs

Dec 6, 2017 - For example, the Legislature could consider providing funding based on an average of multiple years instead of attendance in a single year or could consider providing the high est of two years of funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3720

A Review of Caltrans’ Vehicle Insurance Costs

Dec 5, 2017 - Premiums Have More Than Tripled Over Last Three Years. Figure  4 shows Caltrans ’ premiums each year over the last decade. For the first seven years, premiums fluctuated around $ 5  m illion. Then, premiums nearly doubled in 2015 ‑16, and then increased by nearly two ‑thirds in 2017 ‑18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3721

Estate taxes and financial aid for college. [Ballot]

Nov 30, 2017 - Funds first would be used to provide tuition coverage in the first year of college for Cal Grant B recipients and eliminate two Cal G rant B entitlement criteria —the requirements that students be recent high school graduates and meet academic criteria.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-038