Framework For Cap-And-Trade Investment Plan Needs Further Development

Sep 22, 2015 - The investment plan is meant to identify general strategies for allocating auction proceeds over the next three years, and the ARB’s concept paper is the first step in the public process of developing the final investment plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3298

Lower-Income Households Moving to Inland California from Coast [EconTax Blog]

Sep 16, 2015 - Expensive Coastal Metros Added Virtually No Lower-Income Households In Recent Years. Amid rapidly rising housing costs, movements of lower-income households out of expensive coastal metro areas have been notable in recent years, based on a look at data from the American Community Survey between 2011 and 2013.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/133

International protocol official in state government. [Ballot]

Sep 16, 2015 - Accordingly, it is conceivable that the fiscal effect of this measure would be limited to the creation of the Office of the Chief of Protocol, which would re sult in additional state costs of at least a few hundred thousand dollars per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-046

State legislative districts. [Ballot]

Sep 11, 2015 - The measure also specifies that the compensation for each Senator and Assembly Member shall be $1,000 per year and the compensation for each member of the Working Comm ittees shall be $50,000 per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-045

Vacation Homes Becoming More Common in Many Parts of California [EconTax Blog]

Sep 10, 2015 - Vacation homes grew faster than the overall housing stock in four-fifths of counties in recent years. As a result, about 2.5 percent of houses statewide were used for vacationing during the period 2011-2013, compared to only 2 percent between 2005-07, a 25 percent increase.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/130

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 10 (Scientists)

Sep 9, 2015 - The administration estimates that allowing employees to cash out 60 additional hours in each of these years could increase the state ’s annual costs by more than $6 million (more than $1 million General Fund).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3297

Constitutional initiative related to medical marijuana. [Ballot]

Sep 8, 2015 - While state law prohibits the establishment of facilities that distribute, sell, or cultiva te medical marijuana within 600 feet of a school, it otherwise gives cities and counties the discretion to regulate the location and operations of such facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-044

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Sep 4, 2015 - The administration estimates that allowing employees to cash out 60 additional hours each year could increase the state ’s annual costs by more than $30 million ($1 million General Fund) for each of the three years of the agreement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3296

A proposed constitutional and statutory initiative related to poverty reduction. [Ballot]

Sep 4, 2015 - (Facilities and space usage may comprise no mo re than 25  percent of the total local match requirement.) The higher reimbursement rates apply to both the school-year and summer programs. Quality Improvement Funds in the Quality Rating and Improvement Enhancement Subaccount would be for increasing QRIS grants.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-043

Related to collecting signatures for initiative petitions and proposing laws in the Legislature. [Ballot]

Sep 4, 2015 - Members of the Legislature introduce hundreds of proposed laws to be considered by the Legislature each year. The measure would require Members of the Legislature to pay a fee for each piece of legislation they introduce to the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-042