The 2022-23 Budget: Educator Workforce Proposals

Feb 23, 2022 - Between 2001 and 2004, the state funded the Teacher Recruitment Incentive Program which established six county offices of education (COEs) as regional teacher recruitment centers to recruit teachers for low ‑performing schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4556

Real Estate Fraud Prosecution Trust Fund Program [Publication Details]

Dec 16, 2010 - The report must also include information on the types of expenditures made by the law enforcement agencies of those counties. Our review found that, by 2009-10, 21 counties had reported data indicating their participation in the program at an annual statewide cost of about $10 million, with significant variation in expenditures from county to county.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2379

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (3540)

The fee would be included in property tax bills and would be collected by county assessors or controllers. Based on our research, we believe the assessors will need information on parcels in SRA by July or August 2008, to include the fee in the tax bills that go out in September and October, in order to generate fee revenues when property taxes are paid in December 2008 and April 2009.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/resources/res_anl08007.aspx

With New Deficits Looming, California Will Weigh its Options for Allocating a Large Revenue Windfall

Dec 1, 2020 - Because this group accounts for a large portion of the state ’s tax revenues, tax collections proved to be somewhat insulated from the initial downturn. In fact, our revenue estimate for 2021 ‑22 now is very similar to what the Governor projected in his January 2020 (pre-pandemic) budget proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4305

^[PDF] Government Spending Limit Act of 2010 [V-2]

Similarly, most cities, counties, and special districts are below their spending limits. (State law allows school and community college district governing boards to increase their spending limits to an amount equal to their proceeds of taxes; such increases in the districts’ appropriations limits then reduces the spending limit of the state government by an equal amount.)
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2009/090779.pdf

Health Coverage

Screening and vaccination costs will total $84  million in 1998-99, primarily funded by a combination of state General Fund and Proposition  99 tobacco tax funds. Counties provide follow up treatment for health problems identified in the screens, generally using a portion of their state allocations of Proposition  99 funds or realignment funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/1999/0699_low_income_health_coverage.html

The California Class Size Reduction Act

A uniform tax rate of 1.25  percent is levied in all counties, and local governments are authorized to levy an optional additional tax not to exceed 1.5  percent. Currently, total sales tax rates range from 7.25  percent to 8.5  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/1999/990890_INT.html

The state's initiative, referendum, and recall processes. [Ballot]

Sep 27, 2021 - County election officials have to verify the validity of thousands of voter signatures on petitions. Campaigns to support or oppose such measures regularly raise millions of dollars to develop proposals, fund signature-gathering campaigns, and present their viewp oints to the public at large.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-007

Assessing Recent Changes to California Competes

Mar 30, 2020 - California Competes is an economic development tax incentive program that allows the administration to negotiate tax credit agreements with individual companies that agree to meet multiyear hiring and investment targets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4213

How California Governments Respond to Disasters

Jan 10, 2019 - In 2018, this threshold was $1.46 per person in the state (about $58  million for California) and $3.68 per person in the affected county (about $4,000 in Alpine County and $37  million in Los Angeles County).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3919