County Organized Managed Care Health Programs [Publication Details]

Feb 18, 2004 - The HPSM is one of the County Organized Health System (COHS)—a form of managed care—that contracts with Medi-Cal in eight counties. At least two of these plans reportedly face financial problems and others may in the future.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1120

The 2023-24 Budget: University of California

Feb 15, 2023 - According to UC, the Institute would be an independent research institute funded through a public ‑private partnership and classified for federal tax purposes as a California nonprofit public benefit corporation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4684

Fiscal Outlook: Estimating Capital Gains Revenue [EconTax Blog]

Nov 14, 2018 - Consequently, capital gains earned by higher-income filers are taxed at higher rates. We estimate the income distribution using historical data on filings from the Franchise Tax Board and apply effective tax rates (liability as a fraction of taxable income after deductions) to income   based on recent patterns.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/319

LAO 2003-04 Budget Analysis: Health and Social Services, California Medical Assistance Program (4260)

Our analysis also indicates that the cost of Medi-Cal eligibility administration varies significantly from county to county, even for seemingly comparable counties. The average cost per eligible for the five counties with the largest Medi-Cal caseloads ranges from a high of $353 in San Diego County to a low of $181 in Los Angeles County.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2003/health_ss/hss_5_4260_anl03.htm

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: Child Welfare Services (5180)

The fully loaded social worker cost per county ranges from $72,788 to $176,930. This range in cost per county partially reflects cost –of –living differences, but there are also significant differences in costs between bordering counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/health_ss/hss_anl08010.aspx

^[PDF] Voting rights for individuals in prison and under parole supervision.

In some counties, the county sheriff picks up the ballots from the county registrar and delivers the ballots to the jail, returning the ballots to the registrar once completed. In other counties, inmates simply receive and return their vote-by-mail ballots via the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2017/170555.pdf

2001 Budget Analysis Trial Court Funding (0450)

The courts may opt to discontinue county-provid ed services and contract with an outside vendor. Often times, however, county-provided services are the only viable option for the courts. For example, in one case the court's leas e agreement with the county for the court building requires the court to use county-contracted janitorial services.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2001/crim_justice/cj_03_0450_anl01.htm

^[PDF] Accommodating the State's Inmate Population Growth

In addition to the above options, there are several legislative proposals which would allow many relatively low-level offenders now sent to state prison to remain in county custody. For example, SB 760 (Lockyer) would dedicate a share of sales tax reve- nues to counties that voluntarily chose to take custody of such offend- ers, either by placing
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/1995/accomodating_the_states_inmate_population_growth.pdf

California's Fiscal Outlook 1996-97 Through 1998-99 Chapter 5

As is the case for the five-year limit on the TANF program, these savings would be offset by costs--potentially of a greater amount--to the counties' General Ass istance program. In summary, welfare reform could have a significant fiscal impact on the state and the counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/1996/112196_fiscal_outlook/outlook96_chapter_5.html

^[PDF] The 2014-15 Budget: Analysis of the Health Budget

We discuss the implementation of these payment reductions in the “Medi-Cal Payment Reductions and Access to Care” section later in this analysis. • Tax on Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans. The budget assumes General Fund offsets of $256 million in 2013-14 and $462 million in 2014-15 from a tax on Medi-Cal managed care organizations (MCOs), known as the MCO tax, that was authorized as part of the 2013-14 budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/budget/health/health-022014.pdf