State legislator lie detector tests (Amendment No. 1). [Ballot]

Feb 18, 2016 - Legislators would be prohibited from lobbying the Legislature or any other statewide elected official for 12 years after leaving office. Legislators also would be prohibited from seeking or discussing employment with any person or company that has “directly or indirectly ” lobbied the Legislature during the past two years, as specified.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-125

The 2016-17 Budget: Proposition 98 Education Analysis

Feb 18, 2016 - In addition to these programs, the federal government runs the Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program, which provides up to $17,500 in loan forgiveness for teaching in hard –to –staff schools for five years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3355

The rights of specified individuals to make their own health care decisions. [Ballot]

Feb 18, 2016 - For example, recently enacted legislation requires children to meet various legal requirements for immunization to attend school or child care facilities. State and Local Health Care and Other Programs.  
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-123

State and local law enforcement agencies. [Ballot]

Feb 17, 2016 - First, Chapter  466 requires state and local law enforcement agencies to submit an annual report beginning in 2019 to the state Attorney General on all stops conducted in the previous calendar year. Agencies must provide certain information regarding each stop, including the perceived race, ethnicity, gender, and approximate age of the person stopped.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-124

The 2016-17 Budget: Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 16, 2016 - Without the proposed shift of fuel tax revenues, the SPRF would have a negative fund balance of $25  million in 2016 –17 , an amount which will continue to grow in out –years without action to address the structural deficit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3354

The 2016-17 Budget: Governor’s General Fund Deferred Maintenance Proposal

Feb 12, 2016 - Specifically, it is uncertain whether these changes reflect actual differences in needs since last year or are a result of differences in how deferred maintenance is catalogued or reported by departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3353

The 2016-17 Budget: Fiscal Impacts of Proposition 47

Feb 12, 2016 - Of the $26.9  million in court costs identified by the administration, our analysis finds that $25  million is for workload associated with resentencing hearings that occurred in 2014 –15 . As noted previously, we believe that a more reasonable way to calculate net savings in a given fiscal year is to account for all costs and savings incurred within that year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3352

The 2016-17 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 11, 2016 - As part of a years –long effort to identify and effect improvements to the state ’s child welfare system, the Legislature passed legislation in 2015 implementing the Continuum of Care Reform, or CCR.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3351

The 2016-17 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 11, 2016 - This year –over –year increase is due to several factors, such as projected increases in caseload and the loss of General Fund savings due to the impending sunset of the MCO tax and the hospital QAF.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3350

Parole consideration, credits, and the prosecution of juveniles in adult court, Amendment No. 1. [Ballot]

Feb 11, 2016 - Under indeterminate sentencing, prison inmates receive a sentence range, such as 25-years-to-life, and typically appear before the state Board of Parole Hearings (BPH) for a parole consideration hearing in order to be granted release from prison.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-121