1996-97 Budget Analysis: Board of Prison Terms and CYA

Currently, counties pay the state $25 each month ($300 annually) for each offender sent to the Youth Authority. The $25 monthly fee was set in 1961, and has not been adjusted since then. Chapter 6 increased the fee to $150 per offender per month, or $1,800 annually per offender, to account for the effects of inflation since 1961.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1996/a96d2.html

^[PDF] LAO 1996 Budget Analysis: Business and Labor Chapter

This is $12.6 million, or 17 percent, less than current-year expenditures. This reduction reflects (1) an $8.3 million reduction in grant and loan expenditures from spe- cial accounts used for local energy projects and (2) a decrease of $8.3 million for the Katz Safe School Bus Clean Fuel Efficiency Demon- stration Program from the Katz School Bus Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1996/a96g.pdf

1996-97 Budget Analysis: Business and Labor Part I

The Legislature approved a General Fund augmentation of $2.5 million and increased staffing by 41 positions for the DFEH in the current year. This represented a 25 percent increase in General Fund expenditures and a 21 percent increase in staff.
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1996-97 Budget Analysis: Business and Labor Part II

Chapter 871 specifies that the state is responsible for appropriating at least $7.3 million each fiscal year for the tourism program, and the industry is responsible for targeting the level of assessments for each fiscal year of at least $25 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1996/a96g2.html

1996-97 Budget Analysis: State Administration Crosscutting Issues

In last year's Analysis , we estimated that the state's total investment in the pilot project would be about $5 million by the end of the current year. We have not updated this cost estimate for the budge t year because departments are not uniformly accounting for their expenditures for performance budgeting.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1996/a96hcc.html

^[PDF] LAO 1996 Budget Analysis: Capital Outlay Chapter

After several years of decline, enrollments increased in 1995-96. The DOF's most recent enrollment projections (fall 1995) estimate growth of 18 percent at the UC and 25 percent at both the CSU and the CCC through 2004 (the last year of DOF's projection).
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1996/a96i.pdf

1996-97 Budget Analysis: Perspectives on the Economy

One of the most positive developments over the past year has been the continued good news on inflation. The consumer price index (CPI) increased just 2.8 percent in 1995, the thi rd consecutive year below 3 percent and the second lowest increase in 30 years.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1996/p962.html

^[PDF] LAO 1996 Perspectives and Issues: PERSPECTIVES ON THE ECONOMY

However, with the improvement in the California economy, we expect net migration to partially rebound over the next three years. This in turn will contribute to a rise in the state's overall population growth rate.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1996/p962.pdf

1996-97 Perspectives and Issues: An Overview of State Expenditures

This increase and the corresponding reduction in state education spending in 1993-94 were related, in that allocations fr om the LPSF were intended, in part, to offset some of the property tax revenues that were shifted from local governments to schools in order to reduce the General Fund's share of t he state's Proposition 98 school funding requirement.
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^[PDF] LAO 1996 Perspectives and Issues: AN OVERVIEW OF STATE EXPENDITURES

These allocations, in effect, offset some of the local revenue loss from shifts of property taxes to schools that were enacted to reduce the state’s school funding obligation. The budget treats the LPSF as a trust fund and excludes it from spending totals.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1996/p964-1.pdf