LAO Analysis of the 1999-00 Budget Bill Health and Social Services Departmental 1 Issues

Cancer Research Fund Balance Should Be Transferred to General Fund We recommend that the year-end unexpended balances in the Cancer Research Fund (projected to be $1.6  million) be transferred to the General Fund because (1) these balances will not be needed to fund the program in 1999-00 and (2) the original source of these funds is the General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/health_ss/health_ss_depts1_anl99.html

2001 Budget Analysis: Department of General Services (1760)

The department reported in December 2000 the range of market rates for office leases in different cities shown in Figure 2. The figure shows that office lease costs in San Francisc o are now 50 percent to over 400 percent more than in these other cities.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2001/general_govt/gen_14_1760_DGS_anl01.htm

2001 Budget Analysis: California Housing Finance Agency (2260)

E xisting home owners have already overcome the major barriers to first-time home ownership. While the developer fee reimbursement may provide them the flexibility to purchase a slig htly more expensive home, the programs will not represent the difference between renting and home ownership.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2001/general_govt/gen_20_2260_CA_Housing_Fin_Agency_anl01.htm

^[PDF] LAO 2001 Budget Analysis: Resources Chapter

Transferring Offsets to the Power Plants. Our review finds that the administration has not yet determined how the “trading” (that is, the transfer and sale) of an emission offset to a power plant will be conducted.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2001/resources/resources_anl01.pdf

LAO Analysis of the 2002-03 Budget: Education, California School Information Services

The DOF data management study should provide information for the Legislature to determine which of the additional data collections should be transferred to SDE via CSIS, and what the timeline should be for those transitions.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2002/education/ed_13_CSIS_anl02.htm

^[PDF] LAO 2002 Budget Analysis: Education Chapter

The DOF data management study should provide information for the Legislature to determine which of the additional data collections should be transferred to SDE via CSIS, and what the timeline should be for those transitions.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2002/education/ed_anl02.pdf

2002-03 Budget Analysis: General Government, Software Enterprise License Agreements

The ELA should include a number of provisions aimed specifically at software rights such as ownership, maintenance, support, transfer, upgrades, testing, and back-up systems. Thes e provisions should provide enough flexibility to allow the state to move software from one location to another, from one computer to another, and allow its use during testing and on back-up systems without additional costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2002/general_govt/gen_3_cc_eap_anl02.htm

LAO 2003-04 Budget Analysis: Health and Social Services, Child Welfare Services

If our recommendation is adopted and the Legislature also adopts the administration's realignment proposal for CWS, then the amounts shown represent reductions in the amount of re venue that could be transferred to the counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2003/health_ss/hss_18_5180_cws_anl03.htm

2004-05 Budget Perspectives and Issues: Deficiencies--Rethinking Unexpected Expenses

Some of the funding transferred this year has not met the tests for using Section 27.00, and the transfers were made over the objections of the Legislature. Overstep of Authority. The administration also has proposed transfers of funds pursuant to Section 27.00 (b) that did not comply with the 5  percent limit on such transfers.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/2004_pandi/pi_part_5b_deficiencies_anl04.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Judicial Branch (0250)

We also think that the proposed reauthorization of the undesignated fees transfer has merit to the extent that courts bear the costs of p roviding the services for which the fees are being collected.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/crim_justice/cj_04_0250_anl05.htm