The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control [Publication Details]

Feb 24, 2023 - In this post, we assess and make recommendations on the Governor’s budget proposal to (1) provide additional resources to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to support its licensing, enforcement, education, and grant programs and (2) transfer to the ABC Fund $48.5 million General Fund over three years that was previously appropriated to the department for a fee waiver program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4705

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control

Feb 24, 2023 - Under the proposal, $20.5  million would be transferred in 2023-24, $16  million in 2024-25, and $12  million in 2025-26. In addition, ABC has indicated that if the above transfer is approved, it would also bring the Alcohol Policing Partnership grant program funding back to its authorized funding level of $3  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4705

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - The  administration ’s estimates of revenues (excluding transfers, both between state funds and from the federal government) are $13.6  billion higher across the three ‑year budget window compared to our estimates in November.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Sep 16, 2022 - Legislation related to the 2022-23 budget renames the Mobilehome Park Rehabilitation and Resident Ownership Program to the MORE Program. The budget provides HCD $100  million General Fund over two years ($25  million in 2022-23 and $75  million in 2023-24) for the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4622

The 2022-23 Budget: Vote by Mail Ballots: Prepaid Postage

May 13, 2022 - Cities, special districts, and schools pay for a share of elections costs, often as a reimbursement to their county based on the proportion of the ballot dedicated to the local governments ’ candidates and issues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4596

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Costs for cities and counties might include adding drainage to roads to manage more intense rain events, or modifying water treatment plants located along the coast to accommodate higher sea levels. …And Private Residents and Businesses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Office of Emergency Services Proposals

Feb 20, 2022 - Second, the Governor ’s proposal would allow the administration to transfer the $10  million from OES to other departments without any legislative notification. Under the proposal, OES would only be required to report by March  1, 2024 on the use of the funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4551

The 2022-23 Budget: Secretary of State Request to Waive Business Filing Fees

Feb 7, 2022 - The amount transferred to the General Fund has varied significantly year to year, ranging from $5  million in 2011 ‑12 to $36  million in 2017 ‑18. As a percentage of revenues, the transfer to the General Fund has varied from 9  percent of fee revenues in 2019 ‑20 to 41  percent of fee revenues in 2017 ‑18.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4516

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - The remaining $200  million would be allocated to the state ’s 61 local health jurisdictions (LHJs) (58 counties and 3 cities), with funding allocated based in part on each LHJ ’s population share, level of poverty, and racial/ethnic make ‑up.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 29, 2021 - Cities. $336  million to cities with populations over 300,000 based on each city ’s share of the 2019 point-in-time homelessness count for the CoC in their region. Requires HCFC to allocate no more that 45  percent of this allocation to a single city.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4468