Shift certain offenders from state prison to county jails.

May 27, 2010 - Take the example of an offender who other-wise would have gone to prison for one year, but instead receives a sentence of one year in jail, is released early after six months due to overcrowding and placed on probation for three years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/254

CHIPRA Implementation

May 26, 2010 - CHIPRA Implementation Healthy Families Program Finding or Recommendation: Approve the administration’s request for $7.2 million and 9.0 two-year limited-term positions, along with budget bill language that allows for legislative oversight and accountability for the funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/252

Managed Care Organization (MCO) Tax Revenues Could Offset General Fund Support for Healthy Families Program (HFP)

May 26, 2010 - The Governor ’s May Revision proposes to use $186.2 million in Children ‘s Health and Human Services (CHHS) Special Fund revenue for the Healthy Families Program (HFP) in the budget year (an increase of $48.9 million from the November estimate).  
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/253

Reconsidering the Optional Single Sales Factor [Publication Details]

May 26, 2010 - Our findings indicate that: (1) a formula with a higher weight on sales and lower weights on property and payroll promotes job growth to some extent; (2) with most states’ formulas now based only on sales, the old formula that used property and payroll could put some California producers at a competitive disadvantage; and (3) allowing firms to choose their formula every year arbitrarily favors some firms over others.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2290

Overview of Governor's Child Care Proposals [Publication Details]

May 25, 2010 - Presented to the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee. May 25, 2010.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2284

Overview of the Governor's Proposition 98 May Revision Proposal [Publication Details]

May 25, 2010 - Presented to the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education. Hon. Wilmer Amina Carter, Chair. May 25, 2010.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2287

May Revision Request for Additional $3.2 Million and 17 Positions to Enhance Underground Injection Control Regulatory Program

May 20, 2010 - Adopt budget bill language: (1) specifying how the $2m is to be used in the budget year, and (2) directing the administration to submit, with the Governor's 2011-12 budget, a budget request and workplan to implement the redesigned program to address identified deficiencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/246

Increases in Copayments.

May 20, 2010 - We also recommend the Legislature consider adopting lower copayment amounts than those proposed for non-emergency use of the ER, of up to $25 for families under 150 percent of the FPL, and up to $50 for families over 150 percent of the FPL.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/248

May Revision caseload estimate.

May 20, 2010 - However, we find the caseload projections for the both the current year and the budget year reasonable.   Analyst ’s Recommendation. We recommend no caseload adjustment at this time.     Subscribe | California State Legislature | Online Voter Registration | Privacy Policy | Accessibility Legislative Analyst's Office | The California Legislature's Nonpartisan Fiscal and Policy Advisor 925 L Street, Suite 1000 Sacramento, CA 95814 | (916) 445-4656
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/250

Medi-Cal Managed Care Rate Setting Methodology for Two Plan Model

May 20, 2010 - This approachavoids huge year-over-year changes in plan rates and gives plans time to adjust their business practi ces to the new rates. (As noted above, the other 80  percent of the final rate is comprised of the plan-specific rate calculated in the first step.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/236