LAO Analysis of the 1998-99 Budget Bill Criminal Justice Departmental Issues 1

The housing plan assumes that 480 additional inmates will be accommodated at 2,000 new community correctional facility beds operated by private vendors that opened in January 1998 , and that a net gain of 25 beds will result from contracting with vendors for correctional reentry center beds.
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LAO Analysis of the 1998-99 Budget Bill General Government Crosscutting Issues

Current-Year Funding. The 1997-98 Budget Act (Item 9899) appropriated $55  million for Y2K conversion costs. This included $25  million from the General Fund, $25  million from special funds, and $5  million from non-governmental cost funds.
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LAO Analysis of the 1998-99 Budget Bill General Goverment Departmental Issues 2

The changes require departments to exchange in formation electronically with many partners, including local school districts, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, substance abuse programs, child welfare services programs , and work programs, among others.
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LAO Analysis of the 1998-99 Budget Bill General Government Departmental Issues 5

Under current law, the PERS is responsible for developing employer contribution rates each year based on actuarial analyses. At the time this Analysis was prepared, a final determination of these rates had not been made.
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LAO Analysis of the 1998-99 Budget Bill General Governent Overview Issues

This program provides $75 million to cities and counties for police and sheriffs' patrol services and $25 million to counties for prosecution and jail services. Regulatory Activities A total of 20 agencies are responsible for providing regulatory oversight of various consumer and business issues.
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LAO Analysis of the 1998-99 Budget Bill Health and Social Services Overview Issues

Overview Health and Social Services General Fund expenditures for health and social services programs are proposed to increase by 2.5 percent in the budget year. This increase is due primarily to a variety of workload and cost increases, full-year funding of a new health insurance program implemented in the current year, and the provision of state matching funds for the new federal Welfare-to-Work block grant.
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LAO Analysis of the 1998-99 Budget Bill Higher Education Crosscutting Issues

By contrast, the rate for those 25 years old and older fell from 5.4 to 4.2  percent over this same period. Because there are almost seven times as many adults 25 years old or older than there are in the 18 to 24 year old group, and because the percentage of older adults has increased significantly over the
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LAO Analysis of the 1998-99 Budget Bill Higher Education Departmental Issues 1

According to UC, reducing the eligibility pool from 20.5 to 12.5  percent would require UC to increase the required minimum high school grade-point-average (GPA) from 3.3 to 3.65. (The GPA scale has changed in recent years.
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LAO Analysis of the 1998-99 Budget Bill Information Technology Issues

The Division of Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) is implementing new legislation (Chapter  588, Statutes of 1997 [AB 1610, Ortiz] and Chapter  589, Statutes of 1997 [AB 1612, Alby]) that requires that all school employees and applicants must undergo criminal background checks.
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1998-99 Perspectives and Issues: Perspectives on State Revenues Part II

However, they picked up momentum in the summer months, increasing by nearly 7 percent from the prior year. Our forecast was prepared before taxable sales for the fourth quarter of calendar-year 1997 were known.
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