The 2017-18 Budget: Increased Staffing for Labor Standards Enforcement

Mar 3, 2017 - Targeting of BOFE Inspections Appears to Have Significantly Improved in Recent Years. Our review of legislatively required reports for 2009 ‑10 through 2013 ‑14 (the most recent year for which a report has been submitted) indicates that the targeting of BOFE inspections significantly improved over this period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3602

The 2017-18 Budget: Federal Receiver for Inmate Medical Services

Mar 3, 2017 - This is because the current staffing model used to determine level of LVNs and associated funding needed each year for medication management does not account for certain factors that have increased workload in recent years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3601

The 2017-18 Budget: Funding Public Works Labor Enforcement

Mar 3, 2017 - The Governor proposes a few actions to address the funding shortfall in the SPWEF in 2017 ‑18 and later years. First, the Governor proposes to provide funding to DLSE on a two-year limited-term basis for six positions to conduct outreach with awarding bodies to improve their awareness of their responsibility to ensure that contractors have complied with this requirement, with the intent of increasing compliance and fee revenue over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3603

The 2017-18 Budget: Increased Staffing for Labor Standards Enforcement [Publication Details]

Mar 3, 2017 - The Governor’s budget proposes $11 million in special funds and 82.5 positions, phased in over three years, for the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to pursue additional investigations of labor standards violations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3602

The 2017-18 Budget: Governor's Gann Limit Proposal [Publication Details]

Mar 2, 2017 - Under the State Constitution, state tax revenues in excess of the Prop 4 (1979) state appropriations limit, or Gann Limit, must be split between taxpayer rebates and additional school spending. The Governor now proposes a new calculation methodology that creates $22 billion in additional state spending capacity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3596

The 2017-18 Budget: Governor's Gann Limit Proposal

Mar 2, 2017 - Multiply Current Year ’s SAL by SAL Growth Factor. The current year ’s SAL is the starting point for determining the upcoming year ’s SAL. The current year ’s SAL is multiplied by the “SAL growth factor, ” an annual measure of inflation and population growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3596

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of Special Education “Disconnect”

Mar 1, 2017 - As in 2013 ‑14, roughly ten SELPAs had sufficient local property tax revenue to cover their full statutory levels and were not initially prorated downward these years. Situation Further Complicated in 2013 ‑14 and 2014 ‑15.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3598

The 2017-18 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Mar 1, 2017 - The 2016-17 Budget Act included $25  million for the activation of a new infill facility at RJD in San Diego based on an assumption that the facility would be activated on August 1, 2016. The department indicates that, due to construction delays, the activation of the infill facility did not occur until December 12, 2016.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3595

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

Feb 28, 2017 - 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 2017-18 Budget: California State Payroll System

Feb 28, 2017 - October 25, 2012 —The SCO issues a second cure notice to the system integrator, SAP, requiring SAP to increase personnel on the project, reschedule project milestones, and stabilize the software so that Pilot  2 and Waves  3, 4, and 5 may go forward, among other requests.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3590