State Spending Plan for 1996-97 - Chapter 1

These included previously enacted welfare grant reductions and the Renters' Tax Credit sus pension. Given the above, the central challenge facing policymakers as they approached developing the 1996-97 budget was twofold how to allocate the new Proposition  98 resources expected to be available for education, and how to allocate the non-Proposition  98 portion of the budget among the many spending areas competing for the scarce resources available.
https://lao.ca.gov/1996/100796_spend_plan/96spendplan_ch1.html

^[PDF] Chapter 2 Economic and Demographic Projections

Numerically, we expect the state to add somewhat over 525,000 persons annually, with total population reaching 34.1 million by 1999. -100
https://lao.ca.gov/1996/112196_fiscal_outlook/outlook96_chapter_2.pdf

California's Fiscal Outlook 1996-97 Through 1998-99 Chapter 4

Adjustments for State Operations. For most state operations programs, we have applied a growth adjustment equivalent to the state/local price deflator in lieu of making specific price and workload adjustments.
https://lao.ca.gov/1996/112196_fiscal_outlook/outlook96_chapter_4.html

March 1996 California Update

We note that using in-state cigarette sales as a measure of state consumption trends may overstate the actual consumption declines, to the extent that cigarette purchases are made outside the state in response to higher California tax rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/1996/cal_update/cup0396.html

^[PDF] update

We note that using in-state cigarette sales as a measure of state consumption trends may overstate the actual consumption declines, to the extent that ciga- rette purchases are made outside the state in response to higher California tax rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/1996/cal_update/cup0396.pdf

California Update, May 1996

Historically, the performance of withholding has been a good general indicator of the state of California's economy. For example, withholding fell sharply in the early 1990s, ref lecting the severe nature of the recession that hit California at that time.
https://lao.ca.gov/1996/cal_update/cup0596.html

^[PDF] MAY 1996 UPDATE

Historically, the performance of withholding has been a good general indicator of the state of California’s economy. For example, with- holding fell sharply in the early 1990s, reflecting the severe nature of the recession that hit California at that time.
https://lao.ca.gov/1996/cal_update/cup0596.pdf

California Update, November 1996

Specifically, the county contribution for trial court funding would have been capped and the state would be responsible for funding all future cost increases for trial courts. Assembly Bill 2553 also provided that fine and forfeiture collections, currently submitted by local governments to the state's General Fund to offset the state's costs of the pr ogram, would instead be remitted to the Trial Court Trust Fund for the same purpose.
https://lao.ca.gov/1996/cal_update/nov_96_calupdate.html

^[PDF] Policy Brief Class Size Reduction

Many districts have stated that CSR actually costs around $750 to $800 per pupil, and that, at a 1996-97 funding level of $650 per pupil, CSR is “encroaching” on district general funds. In fact, many districts com- mented in our CSR survey that the Page 22 Legislative Analyst's Office state should set aside full per-pupil The only difference would be in how funding for the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/1997/021297_class_size/class_size_297.pdf

^[PDF] Overview of the 1997-98 May Revision Budget Brief

For the second straight year, the improving California economy has produced major upward revisions to state tax revenues. Along with major
https://lao.ca.gov/1997/051997_may_revision/pb051997_may_revision.pdf