^[PDF] California Community Colleges: Effects of Increases in Noncredit Course Funding Rates

In our 2012 report, Restructuring California’s Adult Education System, we recommended the Legislature restrict credit instruction in English and ESL to transfer-level coursework, such that colleges would offer precollegiate-level courses in those disciplines on a noncredit basis.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3635/CCC-Noncredit-Course-033017.pdf

^[PDF] The Property Tax Inheritance Exclusion

Local governments in California—cities, counties, schools, and special districts—levy property taxes on property owners based on the value of their property. Property taxes are a major revenue source for local governments, raising nearly $60 billion annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3706/property-tax-inheritance-exclusion-100917.pdf

^[PDF] An Evaluation of CSU’s Cross-Campus Online Education Program

To evaluate whether the registration process is effectively streamlined for students, as required by Chapter 363, we asked the Chancellor’s Office to explain the steps for how students sign up for a course and verify how course units will transfer back to their home campus.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2018/3725/CSUs-Cross-Campus-Online-Education-Program.pdf

^[PDF] State Archives: Limited Space for a Growing Collection

In each instance, the State Archives and legislative staff develop a process to transfer records— both digital and physical—to the State Archives. State Archives Determines Archival Value of Legislative Records.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2018/3730/state-archives-010818.pdf

^[PDF] Sequestering Savings From the Closure of Developmental Centers

For example, the City of Costa Mesa has zoned a portion of Fairview DC property as open space and other portions for single-family residential development, public facilities, or recreational uses. (If the land is not sold, but instead transferred to another state department, it would not Typical Process for Disposing of Surplus State Properties The state
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2018/3735/sequestering-savings-013118.pdf

^[PDF] The 2018-19 Budget: Proposition 98 Education Analysis

Perhaps most importantly, it promotes district ownership of improvement efforts by allowing districts to choose from multiple teams of experts specializing in their performance issues. It also promotes responsiveness by allowing the California Collaborative on Educational Excellence to contract with new teams of experts each year as new district performance issues emerge.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2018/3741/prop98-ed-analysis-020718.pdf

^[PDF] The 2018-19 Budget: Governor’s Criminal Justice Proposals

Juvenile court judges decide whether a case will be transferred to adult court in a proceeding known as a transfer hearing . In transfer hearings, judges base their decision on various factors, including a report prepared by county probation officers on the youth’s behavioral patterns and social history and whether the youth can be adequately rehabilitated before he or she must be released from a juvenile facility .
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2018/3762/2018-19-crim-justice-proposals-022818.pdf

^[PDF] The Salton Sea: A Status Update

The land under the Salton Sea is a patchwork of ownership spread across three primary entities: the federal government (mostly the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Land Management), the Imperial Irrigation District (IID), and the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2018/3879/salton-sea-082918.pdf

^[PDF] Taxation of Sugary Drinks

Four California cities levy excise taxes on sugary drinks. As shown in Figure 2 (see next page), Berkeley has levied such a tax since 2015, while Albany, Oakland, and San Francisco have done so since 2017.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2018/3903/sugary-drink-tax-112018.pdf

^[PDF] Test Claim CSM-4501 and Portions of CSM-4469, “School Site Councils and Brown Act Reform”

Paula Higashi 2 January 6, 2000 Contrary to the Constitution The purpose of California’s mandate reimbursement requirement is to prevent the state from transferring the cost of government from itself to local agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/sections/local_govt/010600_letter_site_councils.pdf