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These systems support some of the state’s major health and human services progra ms by providing eligibility determination, case maintenance, and reporting functions at the county level. Chapter 13, Statutes of 2011 (ABX1 16, Blumenfield) directs the administra tion to reduce this number to two by migrating, or moving, counties on an existing system to Los Angeles County’s new system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications?page=69&year=0&publicationType=0

Proposition Analysis

A YES vote on this measure means: Counties would need to change some of the mental health care and drug or alcohol treatment services provided currently to focus more on housing and per sonalized support services.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Propositions?date=3%2F5%2F2024

2000 Budget Analysis: H&SS; Overview

The budget also proposes to revise the formula for providing county fiscal incentives under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program, which wou ld result in significant state savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/health_ss/hss_1_ov_anl00.htm

^[PDF] Department of Forestry and Fire Protection: Funding Wildland Fire Protection

Under our recommendation, county assessors and controllers would collect the fee in conjunction with the property tax. As there are many details to be worked out regarding the implementation of the fee, it is unlikely that rev- enues could be collected as early as the budget year.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/resources/2008/Funding_Wildland_Fire_Protection.pdf

LAO Analysis of the 1998-99 Budget Bill Criminal Justice Departmental Issues 3

Administrative coordination consists of merging the administrative operations of the courts within counties. Examples include the provision of jury services by one office for all the courts within a county, or having one budget staff for all the courts within a county.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/crim_justice_depts3_anl98.html

^[PDF] History and Development of Charter School Policy in California

Legislation enacted in 2002: (1) modifi ed the county/state review and appeals process; (2) required a petition to identify each charter school site; (3) generally required these sites to be located within geographic boundaries of local school district; (4) gave counties authority to monitor charter schools; and (5) required charter schools to submit budget
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/education/2006/Charter_School_Policy_080106.pdf

^[PDF] Mandates and the 2011-12 State Budget

Legislature Faces Diffi cult Choices 5L E G I S L A T I V E A N A L Y S T ’ S O F F I C E January 31, 2011  Consider Including Election Mandates in Realignment Plan  Mandate billing process is highly bureaucratic and payments to counties are uneven.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/state_admin/2011/Mandates_1_31_11.pdf

^[PDF] The Three Strikes Act of 2002

County Jails and Probation. Some offenders released from prison because of this measure will be subsequently prosecuted and convicted for new crimes. Before their criminal cases are resolved in the courts, these offenders will likely spend time in county jails.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2001/011060_INT.pdf

2001 Initiative Analysis: The Three Strikes Act of 2002

County Jails and Probation . Some offenders released from prison because of this measure will be subsequently prosecuted and convicted for new crimes. Before their criminal cases are resolved in the courts, these offenders will likely spend time in county jails.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2001/011060_INT.htm

LAO 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: General Government: Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund Deficit

Ensuring that any county receiving mitigation payments from a tribe with a recently amended compact does not also receive substantial SDF grant funding related to that tribe. (It is likely that this approach would reduce the percentage of annual SDF local grant funding distributed to Riverside County and San Bernardino County.)
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2009/general_govt/gen_anl09004007.aspx