The 2014-15 Budget: A Review of the 2014 California Five-Year Infrastructure Plan

Our office has noted the ability of school and community college districts to raise local revenue for their projects through local bonds, developer fees, facility improvement district levies, and parcel taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/budget/infrastructure/infrastructure-plan-021014.aspx

The 2014–15 Budget: Pilot Program to Improve Property Tax Administration

Specifically, County A (low county share) pays $50,000, yet receives only $30,000 of the resulting revenues. County C (high county share), in contrast, pays $50,000, and receives $150,000 in additional property taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/budget/property-tax/property-tax-administration-031314.aspx

A Look at Voter-Approval Requirements for Local Taxes

Location, Revenue Source, and Purpose Affect Passage Rates Taxes Passed More Often in Some Counties. The passage rate of tax and bond measures varies significantly from county to county. Voters approved over 80 percent of tax and bond measures in some counties, while voters approved less than a third of measures in other counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/finance/local-taxes/voter-approval-032014.aspx

The 2015-16 Budget: Governor’s Criminal Justice Proposals

In 1997, the state took significant steps towards shifting responsibility for trial courts from counties to the state. For example, Chapter 850, Statutes of 1997 (AB 233, Escutia and Pringle), transferred financial responsibility for trial courts (above a fixed county share) to the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/budget/Criminal-Justice/cj-budget-analysis-022015.aspx

The 2015-16 Budget: Possible May Revision Scenarios

(The big three taxes —the personal income tax, sales and use tax, and corporation tax —make up over 95 percent of General Fund revenues and nearly all state revenues that factor into calculations concerning the Proposition 98 minimum guarantee.)
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/budget/scenarios/may-revision-scenarios-040715.aspx

Improving Medi-Cal Managed Care Plan Quality

County Organized Health System (COHS). In COHS counties, there is one county –run managed care plan available to beneficiaries. There are 22 counties that operate under the COHS model, covering about 1.9 million beneficiaries as of January 2015.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/hhs/medi-cal/managed-care-050515.aspx

^[PDF] Proposed statutory initiative related to psilocybin.

The measure would reduce costs to the state and local governments by reducing the number of psilocybin offenders incarcerated in state prison and county jail, as well as the number placed under community supervision (such as county probation).
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2019/190587.pdf

^[PDF] Medical malpractice cases

Local governments—primarily counties—pay for many health care services, mainly for low-income individuals. Some counties operate hospitals and clinics that provide health care services. PROPOSAL This measure makes changes to several key provisions of MICRA, including the following major ones: Replaces Terminology on Noneconomic Damages.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2019/190595.pdf

^[PDF] (The surplus is $4 billion if the managed care organization

(The surplus is $4 billion if the managed care organization [MCO] tax is not approved by the federal government.) X Does the State Have Capacity to Take on New, Ongoing Commitments? Assuming the economy continues to grow, yes.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/state_admin/2019/The-2020-21-Budget-Fiscal-Outlook-Overview-November-2019.pdf

^[PDF] The 2020-21 Budget: California’s Fiscal Outlook

Importantly, this scenario assumes the federal government approves the managed care organization (MCO) tax and the state faces no major disasters over the next few years . (The MCO tax offsets General Fund costs in Medi-Cal but it requires federal approval .) • Ongoing Surplus Drops Below $1 Billion in Alternative Expenditure Scenario.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2019/4111/fiscal-outlook-112019.pdf