LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Program

The Governor proposes to extend the deeming period for sponsor’s income from the current ten years to fifteen years. From a fiscal standpoint, this avoids all CAPI costs from sponsored immigrants for another five years.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_15_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Child Welfare Services

This penalty formula is applied to each year’s federal funding, beginning with federal fiscal year 2002. Because the state has negotiated a PIP, the federal government hol ds these penalties in abeyance until a final review of the state’s progress, however they continue to accumulate for each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_16_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Foster Care

The FFA caseload has increased slightly in recent years, with an increase of 1.4 percent in 2003-04 and 1.3 percent in 2004-05. Contrary to this two-year trend, the department has estimated that FFA cases will increase by 3 percent in the current year and 2.6 percent in the budget year.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_17_anl06.html

Highlights of the 2006-07 Analysis

Proposition 49-Recommend Repeal We continue to recommend the Legislature enact legislation placing before the voters a repeal of Proposition 49 because (1) it triggers an autopilot augmentation even though the st ate is facing a structural budget gap of billions of dollars, (2) the additional spending on after school programs is a lower budget priority than protecting districts’
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/highlights/analysis_highlights_022206.html

Eighth Annual LAO Analysis Quiz

(A) 897 hours per worker per year. (B) 1,364 hours. (C) 1,412 hours. (D) 1,968 hours.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/quiz/analysis_quiz_031706.htm

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Forestry and Fire Protection (3540)

This is because the projections overestimate the number of employees who will be affected by the move to year round planned overtime because they do not accurately account for the changes that hav e already occurred in the current year.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/resources/res_06_3540_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: State Lands Commission (3560)

No Progress in Commission’s Management of School Land Bank Fund The School Land Bank Fund (SLBF) is projected to have a reserve of $59 million by the end of the budget year. Because the State Lands Commission over the past many years has expend ed almost no money from the fund, we recommend the adoption of trailer bill language
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/resources/res_07_3560_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Department of Fish and Game (3600)

For example, in the current year the department has revised its estimate s for current-year FGPF revenues downward by $4 million from what was appropriated in the 2005-06 Budget Act due to lower than projected license sales.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/resources/res_08_3600_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Department of Parks and Recreation (3790)

Over 80 million visitors travel to state parks each year. The budget proposes $411 million in total expenditures for the department in 2006-07. This is an overall decrease of $426 million below estimated current-year expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/resources/res_09_3790_anl06.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Department of Water Resources (3860)

The DWR will also create an Awar eness Floodplain Mapping Program, which will cover areas that are unmapped or unlikely to be mapped soon but which are expected to experience development in the next 25 years.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/resources/res_11_3860_anl06.html