The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - Voting Equipment $87.3  Million General Fund to Replace County Voting Systems. The budget provides one-time funding of $87.3  million to counties for the research and development, purchase, or lease of hardware and software to replace county voting systems and technology, and county election management systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - Although the benefits are federally funded, related administrative costs are split between the federal, state, and county governments. State administrative funding generally increases or decreases in line with projected caseload changes but does not automatically increase alongside the cost of doing business.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/3

Measuring CalWORKs Performance

Sep 6, 2017 - A fourth measure —the percentage of CalWORKs participants with earnings sufficient to receive the maximum benefit from the federal earned income tax credit —was added later. In order to receive incentive funding from the Pay for Performance program, counties would either have to make a minimum level of improvement on a given performance measure or rank in the top 20  percent of counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3702

The 2016-17 Budget: Analysis of the Human Services Budget

Feb 11, 2016 - Until 2011 –12 the state General Fund and counties shared the nonfederal costs of administering CWS. In 2011, the state enacted legislation known as 2011 realignment, which dedicated a portion of the state ’s sales tax to counties to administer CWS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3351

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 23, 2020 - Between March  2020 and June 2020, counties were able to temporarily suspend reassessments. Beginning July 2020, counties may no longer suspend reassessments and are required to complete all outstanding reassessments which were suspended by December 31, 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4286/3

Proposition 10: How Does It Work? What Role Should the Legislature Play in Its Implementation? [Publication Details]

Jan 13, 1999 - We believe that while the Legislature has no direct control over the expenditure of Proposition 10 funds, it should take action to encourage the county commissions to spend their funds effectively. Reports by Policy Area
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/316

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 23, 2020 - To alleviate the corresponding pressure on county budgets, the spending plan caps county contributions to CalFresh administration at their 2019 ‑20 levels, with the state covering the county share for any costs above and beyond those amounts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4286/2

The 2019-20 May Revision: Update to Governor's 1991 Realignment Proposals

May 29, 2019 - Continue practice of treating Yolo County as non ‑CMSP county for purposes of the redirection and increase redirection to 75 percent. Yolo County proposed to be treated as CMSP county for purposes of the redirection.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4077

The 2022-23 Budget: California Food Assistance Program

Feb 11, 2022 - CalFresh Administration Is Funded by the State, Counties, and Federal Government. CalFresh is overseen at the state level by the Department of Social Services (DSS) and administered locally by county human services departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4532

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - The remaining $200  million would be allocated to the state ’s 61 local health jurisdictions (LHJs) (58 counties and 3 cities), with funding allocated based in part on each LHJ ’s population share, level of poverty, and racial/ethnic make ‑up.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492