1997-98 Budget Analysis: Trial Court Funding

This fails to provide counties with incentives to collect fines a nd penalties. The current system also creates tension in the state-county relationship because if counties do not collect fines at a statutorily determined level, they are required to make up the difference with county General Fund revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1997/part6e_trial_court_pi97.html

Cannabis Tax Revenue Update [EconTax Blog]

May 8, 2018 - Cannabis Tax Revenue Update [EconTax Blog] Seth Kerstein Cannabis Tax Revenue Update In November 2016, California voters approved Proposition 64 , which legalized the nonmedical use of cannabis. As seen in the figure, the state levies two excise taxes on cannabis: a retail excise tax and a cultivation tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/282

Implementing Proposition 36: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities

This could be accomplished in a number of ways, such as establishing a recidivism goal for each county and providing additional funds to those counties that meet or exceed the goal. County Contributions to Treatment Efforts.
https://lao.ca.gov/2000/prop36/121400_prop_36.html

December 2016 State Tax Collections [EconTax Blog]

Jan 5, 2017 - Previously published income tax data also was updated. December "Big Three " Tax Collections Disappointing …But Year-End Payments Still Coming In. Figure 1 below shows preliminary December revenue results for the state General Fund 's three main taxes —the personal income tax (PIT), the corporation tax (CT), and the sales and use tax (SUT).
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/228

^[PDF] Homelessness and the 2020-21 Budget

California’s Homeless Population CoC = Continuum of Care, local entities that administer housing assistance programs within a particular area, often a county or group of counties. 2019 Distribution of Homeless Population in Californiaa Los Angeles Sacramento 49,000 individuals in the other 37 CoCs covering the rest of the state a Based on the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/localgov/2020/Homelessness-and-the-Budget-021920.pdf

^[PDF] LAO 1999 Perspectives and Issues: MAJOR EXPENDITURE PROPOSALS IN THE 1999-00 BUDGET

The State Highway Account (SHA), the pri- mary source of state funds for transportation expenditures, derives its revenues primarily from taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel and from truck weight fees.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/1999_pandi/part4b/part4b_pandi99.pdf

LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: County Block Grant Proposal

As noted above, the proposal lacks many details including (1) how much flexibility counties will have to restructure programs and move funding among programs in accordance with county priorities, (2) the allocation of the block grant funds among counties, and (3) how counties will achieve budgeted efficiencies so as to not further reduce benefits and services for immigrants.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/health_ss/hss_04_cc_county_blockgrant_anl04.htm

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Child Care

For example, in Yolo County the cost of care in the university town of Davis was significantly higher than the cost in the remainder of the county. Aggregating to the county level in Yolo County would mean that reimbursement rates would not be high enough to access child care in Davis, and would likely be higher than necessary to access quality care in rest of the county.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/education/ed_10_anl06.html

^[PDF] LAO 1997 Budget Analysis: Trail Court Funding Chapter

This fails to provide counties with incen- tives to collect fines and penalties. The current system also creates tension in the state-county relationship because if counties do not collect fines at a statutorily determined level, they are required to make up the difference with county General Fund revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1997/part6e_trial_court_pi97.pdf

^[PDF] 1967 Budget Analysis: Health

The assumption of the present county share of the cost of administering welfare by the state could be viewed as an effective way of providing the substantial local property tax relief which has been under discussion recently.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1967/11_health_1967.pdf