LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Public Health

County Medical Services Program (CMSP). The CMSP provides health care to certain low-income adults who are not eligible for the state’s Medi-Cal Program and reside within one of 34 participating small California counties .
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_09_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Department of Mental Health (4440)

Counties reimburse the state hospitals using funds they receive f rom the state under the 1991 state-local realignment of tax revenues and mental health program responsibilities. About 90 percent of occupied beds are now utilized for forensic pat ients while about 10 percent are purchased by the counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_12_4440_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (5180)

Finally, the budget decreases county block grant funds by $40 million in 2006-07, suggesting that counties use their un spent performance incentive funds from prior years to make up for this reduction.  
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_13_5180_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: In-Home Supportive Services

Fraud Investigation Workload Shifted from Counties To State . Chapter 229 required CWDs and DSS to refer all suspected IHSS fraud to DHS for investigation, thereby shifting a county workload to the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_14_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Program

According to county sources, about two-thirds of these denials are due to income from the immigrant’s sponsor. Once these immigrants have been in the United States for ten years, their sponsor’s income w ould no longer affect eligibility.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_15_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Child Welfare Services

The DSS has requested reports on the interim results of this funding from the counties in April of 2006. Based on our review, 38 counties received funds for various strategies, m any of which are closely modeled on the System Improvement Pilot activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_16_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Foster Care

County welfare departments make decisions regarding the health and safety of children and have the discretion to place children in one of the fo llowing: (1) a foster family home, (2) a foster family agency home, or (3) a group home.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_17_anl06.html

Highlights of the 2006-07 Analysis

Instead, we recommend that Proposition 42 be repealed and that the gas tax be increased correspondingly to generate an equivalent amount of funds for transportation. We also recomm end that the tax be indexed to inflation to prevent the erosion of the revenue over time relative to road use. ( Analysis, page A-38 .)
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/highlights/analysis_highlights_022206.html

Eighth Annual LAO Budget Quiz: Answer #10

Eighth Annual LAO Budget Quiz: Answer #10 Eighth Annual LAO Budget Quiz Answer to Question #10: (B) The difference between the amount of taxes legally owed to the state and the amount actually remitted by taxpayers. ( See our write-up in the Analysis page F-62 )
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/quiz/q10.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Forestry and Fire Protection (3540)

This recommendation is consistent with legislative intent expressed in the Supplemental Report of the 2005 Budget Act that the change to year round staffing in 2005-06 in selected Southern California counties result in significant increases in fire prevention activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/resources/res_06_3540_anl06.html