The California Craft Cannabis Initiative [Ballot]

Jun 9, 2015 - State law also authorizes cities and counties to regulate the establishment of medical marijuana dispensaries in their jurisdictions. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2005, however, that federal authorities could continue under federal law to prosecute California patients and providers engaged in the cultivation and use of marijuana for medical purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-017

^[PDF] Building Reserves to Prepare for a Recession

Passed by voters in 2004, Proposition 58 required the state to make an annual transfer into the BSA. These required deposits were to gradually increase from 1 percent of General Fund revenues in 2006-07 to 3 percent in 2008-09 and every year thereafter.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2018/3769/prepare-for-recession-030718.pdf

The 2021-22 Budget: CalAIM: The Overarching Issues

Feb 9, 2021 - Specifically, CalAIM would make various changes that affect county responsibilities, such as ( 1)  t he transfer of responsibility for covering specialty mental health services in two counties where today a Medi ‑Cal managed care plan (Kaiser) covers such services and ( 2)  n ew requirements for counties to initiate the Medi ‑Cal enrollment process and coordinate care for county inmates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4357

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 7 (Protective Services and Public Safety)

Aug 8, 2019 - The second competing priority is to limit the amount of regional difference within a classification in order to prevent state employees from consistently transferring to higher paid regions of the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4085

Proposed statutory initiative related to consumer privacy. [Ballot]

Dec 2, 2019 - Under the measure, each fiscal year after offsetting the state court and DOJ costs, 91  percent of remaining funds would be invested by the State Treasurer with any interest or earnings transferred to the state General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2019-021

2000 Budget Analysis: H&SS; CalWORKs 5180

Because it is up to the CWD to determin e when a recipient is stable, the time at which families are transferred from Stage 1 to Stage 2 varies significantly among counties. Some counties make the transfer to Stage 2 as soon as possible, while others wait until the family has left CalWORKs.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/health_ss/hss_17_CalWORKs_5180_anl00.htm

The California Safer Sex in the Adult Film Industry Act (Amendment #1-S) [Ballot]

Mar 3, 2015 - Within California, the adult film industry is heavily concentrated in Los Angeles and nearby cities. A smaller part of the industry is located in the Bay Area. The adult film industry employs several thousand people in the state, although many are only employed on a part-time basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-004

^[PDF] LAO 1997 Budget Analysis: Capital Outlay Chapter

Because such services are integral to their overall law enforcement responsibilities, these costs should be borne by the counties and cities. We believe that this would appropriately align local governments’ programmatic and funding responsibilities for investigation and prosecution activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1997/cap_outlay_anal97.pdf

^[PDF] LAO 1994 Budget Perspectives and Issues: Restructuring Public School Finance

This reduced by about 54 percent the amount of property 140 Part V: Restructuring California Government taxes available to fund services provided by cities, counties, school districts, and other governmental agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1994/1994_pandi/pi94-95_restructuring_pub_school_finance.pdf

LAO Publications

The new spending plan funds the Proposition 42 transfer to transportation, and includes significant increases in both K-12 and higher education. The new budget does not use any of the remaining $3.7 billion in deficit-financing bonds authorized by Proposition 57 in March 2004, and it prepays a $1.2 billion loan due to local governments in 2006-07.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications?page=137&year=0&publicationType=0