California Community Colleges: Effects of Increases in Noncredit Course Funding Rates [Publication Details]

Mar 30, 2017 - In this report, we assess the effects of recent changes in state funding rates on California Community Colleges (CCC) noncredit courses, and recommend that the Legislature explore four key issues moving forward.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3635

The 2016-17 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 11, 2016 - However, a subset of children with higher incomes qualify for Medi –Cal as part of the state ’s CHIP. Currently, the federal government pays 88  percent of the costs for children enrolled in CHIP and the state pays 12  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3350

Collective bargaining for CSU employee health care premiums.

Mar 15, 2013 - The CSU and the state are subject to different statutes governing collective bargaining. The State Employer-Employee Relations Act of 1978, known as the Ralph C. Dills Act (Dills Act), established collective bargaining for state government employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/724

The LAO's outlook for revenues resulting from the temporary tax measure passed in 2012

Nov 22, 2014 - The gradual tapering off of Proposition 30 revenues contributes to fairly slow anticipated growth in state General Fund revenues  over several  fiscal years beginning in 2016-17. Figure 4 in Chapter 2 of our Fiscal Outlook shows that overall growth in the state's "Big Three" tax revenues slows considerably beginning in 2016-17.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/815

Interest on cash and special fund loans likely below administration estimates

Feb 7, 2014 - This is known as the state ’s “ cash-flow borrowing .” The state also has lent special fund balances to the General Fund in recent years to help address annual budget deficits. As of December 2013 , $4.5 billion of such loans were outstanding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/783

Newly Identified Mandate: Domestic Violence Background Checks

Mar 22, 2013 - It also would allow the state to defer to a f uture date its obligation to pay the $15.9 million owed to local governments. Under the State Constitution, the state must fully fund a mandate in the budget unless the Legislature suspends or repeals it.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/740

Recommend assessment of IT project in addition to reconciliation and legal efforts

May 20, 2013 - The system errors had real world impacts in the lives of the affected state employees. At the time of the contract termination, the state had spent over $262 million of the $373 million estimated total project cost.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/761

The 2013-14 Budget: Examining the State and County Roles in the Medi-Cal Expansion [Publication Details]

Feb 19, 2013 - We therefore recommend the state adopt the expansion. We also find that the state is in a better position to effectively deliver health services to the newly eligible population. Therefore, we recommend the Legislature adopt a state-based expansion, shifting the fiscal and programmatic responsibility of providing physical health care to the expansion population from counties to the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2689

Long-term offenders in county jails

May 29, 2013 - As such, the state could not prevent counties f rom sending their most expensive jail inmates (such as those requiring intensive health care treatment or those who display behavioral problems) to the state while electing to hous e the least expensive state inmates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/768

Property Assessment Rules for Businesses [EconTax Blog]

Sep 6, 2016 - The share of properties not reassessed despite some ownership ch ange (like those in 1990 and 2000 in the infographic) is unknown because there is no requirement to report these changes to county assessors or the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/202