LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Child Care

This is because it will take time for counties to collect and merge all of the existing provider waiting lists in each county and then to sort through duplicate entries and determine whether a family should be placed on the first tier or second tier of the waiting list and in what order.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/Health_ss/hss_03_cc_childcare_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Medi-Cal (4260)

Financial Assistance to LA County Ending To ensure that the Legislature receives necessary information to minimize the risk of future budget shortfalls for the Los Angeles County (LA County) health care system, we recommend that the Legislature withhold $29  million in administrative funding for both the state Department of Health Services (DHS)
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/Health_ss/hss_05_4260_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board (4280)

The MRMIB also administers the County Health Initiative Matching Fund (CHIM), a program established as a component of Healthy Families pursuant to Chapter  648, Statutes of 2001 (AB 495, Diaz). Under CHIM, counties, County Organized Health System managed care health plans and certain other locally established health programs are authorized to use
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/Health_ss/hss_08_4280_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Department of Mental Health (4440)

New Funding for Community Mental Health Services Funds Raised Through Income Tax Surcharge. Proposition  63, approved by voters in November 2004, enacted a state personal income tax surcharge of 1  percent that applies to taxpayers with annual taxable incomes of more than $1  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/Health_ss/hss_10_4440_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (5180)

For a family of three in a high-cost county the current exit point is a monthly income of $1,671 (128  percent of the 2004 poverty guideline). When food stamps and the earned income tax credit are added, the family's total income at the exit point is about $1,939 (149  percent of the poverty guideline).
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/Health_ss/hss_12_5180_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Foster Care

Children are eligible for foster care grants if they are living with a foster care provid er under a court order or a voluntary agreement between the child's parent and a county welfare department. The California Department of Social Services (DSS) provides oversigh t for the county-administered foster care system.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/Health_ss/hss_16_Foster_Care_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Criminal Justice Overview

The budget provides about $93  million to open a new maximum-security prison in spring 2005 at Delano ( Kern County ). This primarily consists of funds for approximately 1,200 positions. The budget also provides $60  million for the full-year costs of salary increases that took effect in the current year, mostly for correctional officers.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/crim_justice/cj_01_ov_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Proposition 69-DNA Collection

However, Proposition  69 clearly requires counties to collect samples from all convicted felons, including those who will be sent to CDC starting on the effective date of the measure (November 2004).
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/crim_justice/cj_02_cc_dna_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Board of Corrections (5430)

As stated above, the discontinuing of local assistance fu nding should have resulted in a reduction in workload, thereby reducing the number of staff needed to provide technical assistance to cities and counties regarding standards and tr aining.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/crim_justice/cj_07_5430_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Proposition 98 Budget Priorities

Under current law, these services are provided by county mental health agencies under a reimbursable state-mandated local program. Based on the most recent county claims, costs of this program totaled $143  million (non-Proposition  98 funds).
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/education/ed_02_CC_Prop98_Priorities_anl05.htm