LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Local Government Financing (9210)

Virtually every year beginning in 1999, the Legislature has considered proposals to offset the fiscal effect of the fees on local agencies or reduce county authority to impose fees . Most notably, Chapter, Statutes of 1999 (AB 1662, Leonard)-later amended by Chapter75, Statutes of 2000 (SB5, Rainey), and Chapter76, Statutes of 2000 (AB19, Battin)-establi shed a $38.2爉illion continuous appropriation to annually reimburse local agencies for booking fees paid in 1997.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/general_govt/gen_21_9210_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Retirement Contributions (Control Section 3.60)

Perhaps the most important part of the new policy is a rule that gains and losses in the value of CalPERS assets will be built into the actuarial calculation of the plans’ asset va lue over 15 years instead of three years (the previous policy).
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/general_govt/gen_25_anl06.html

^[PDF] LAO 2006-07 Budget Analysis: Health and Social Services

Failure to meet these higher participation rates would result in annual federal penalties which begin in 2008-09 at $173 million, and increase by about $70 million each year to a maximum of $725 mil- lion per year in 2016-17.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/healthss_anl06.pdf

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Health and Social Services Overview

The Governor’s budget plan assumes that the current-year enrollment for HFP will fall short by about 40,000 of the number assumed in the 2005-06 Budget Act . However, the spending plan further assumes that the program caseload will increase by about 106,000 children or almost 13 percent during the budget year.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_01_ov_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Getting Better Budget Information

The DOF shall revise the Governor’s budget documents display for the Department of Health Services to include a display of the following information: (1) the supplemen tal local assistance schedule, including past year, estimated current year, and proposed budget year expenditures for each listed program and subprogram; (2) a Proposition 99 expen
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LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Medi-Cal (4260)

The CMS has now revised its rate of growth in these costs to about 25 percent. On this basis, federal authorities estimate that the state’s clawback payments for the 2006 calendar year would decrease by more than $110 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_08_4260_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Public Health

Detailed information on the actual past year, estimated current year, and proposed budget year level of spending for these subprograms is not now available to the Legislature in th e Governor’s budget documents.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_09_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Department of Mental Health (4440)

Recently, however, we were advised by state hospital administrators that the remaining population of 50 in this unit is down by half to a total of 25 patients. As a result, we are advised that DMH had held up the bidding process for an estimated $8.8 million project to construct an on-site school building at MSH for these clients, and is reviewing wh ether the current population (if it holds) is sufficient to justify the continuation of this unit.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_12_4440_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (5180)

The proposal also places $11.5 million in a reserve to pay child care claims in the event that actual child care costs are higher than the revised current- year budget proposal. For both years, the budget proposes an additional $25 million to recognize that savings from moving from monthly to quarterly income reporting (referred to as “prospective budgeting”), have been lower than anticipated.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_13_5180_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: In-Home Supportive Services

Prior to the waiver, about 25 percent of the caseload were not eligible for federal funding and were served in the state-only “residual” program. The budget proposes just over $1.3 billion from the General Fund for support of the IHSS program in 2006-07, an increase of $52 million (4.1 percent) compared to estimated expendit ures in the current year.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_14_anl06.html