LAO 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Health: DPH—Modifying Proposition 99: Options for Legislative Consideration

A 1991 state –local realignment provided counties with additional state tax revenues in trade for their assuming certain responsibilities, including indigent care. (We note that some of the specific reductions for health programs we have proposed could be restored in the future using funding from the more flexible Proposition 99 Health Services Account if the state ’s financial condition improved.)
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2009/health/health_anl09003007.aspx

LAO 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Higher Education: CCC Enrollment Levels and Funding

This action would not affect financially needy students (because they are eligible to receive full fee waivers), while the vast majority of nonneedy students would qualify for a full or partial federal tax offset to their fees.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2009/highered/highered_anl09003004.aspx

LAO 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: SSI/SSP (5180)

We recommend instructing counties to focus their existing advocacy efforts on the CAPI cases most likely to be eligible for this federal SSI extension. To further encourage counties to focus on these cases, we recommend establishing an incentive payment to counties for each case transferred to federal eligibility.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2009/ss/ss_anl09003003.aspx

LAO 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Kinship Guardianship Assistance (5180)

We note that the cost to the state of reimbursing counties for these additional administrative costs would likely be more than offset by the benefit to the state General Fund from qualifying these cases for FFP.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2009/ss/ss_anl09003007.aspx

LAO 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Adoption Assistance Program (5180)

The changes outlined above would require the enactment of statutory changes and regulations as well as the issuance of guidance letters to counties. Assuming these steps occurred by January 2010, our recommendations for reform of AAP would result in General Fund savings of approximately $2 million in 2009 –10, increasing to about $12 million in 2010 –11, and with greater savings in the out –years.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2009/ss/ss_anl09004002.aspx

LAO 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Transportation: Executive Summary

We find that the Governor ’s proposal may have limited benefits and recommend an alternative approach to accelerating projects through the issuance of revenue bonds backed by future state gasoline tax revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2009/transportation/trans_anl09001.aspx

LAO 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Transportation: High-Speed Rail Authority

LAO 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Transportation: High-Speed Rail Authority High–Speed Rail Authority The High –Speed Rail Authority was statutorily established to develop a high –speed rail system in California that links the state ’s major population centers, including Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area, the Central Valley, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire, Orange County, and San Diego.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2009/transportation/trans_anl09004008.aspx

2007 Initiative Analysis: California Nonpartisan Candidate Qualification Act

The new signature eligibility requirements include that the candidate secure the signature of registered voters in every county in the state (for statewide offices) or in every zip code within every county (for other offices), in accordance with certain criteria outlined in the initiative.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2007/070502.aspx

2007 Initiative Analysis: California Class Action Reform and Corporate Accountability Act

These new state revenues would be partly offset by a reduction in state income tax revenues. That is because, under this measure, the share of punitive damage awards paid to attorneys and plaintiffs would be reduced by the amount paid directly to the state, thus reducing the amounts that might otherwise be subject to state income taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2007/070694.aspx

2007 Initiative Analysis: The California Health Security Plan

The CHSP will automatically enroll and deliver membership cards to persons and their dependents who have both filed an income tax return in California and have a California address. CHSP Administration.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2007/070749.aspx