Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Agriculture

Dec 15, 2021 - As we discussed above, the current methodology likely overstates the benefits of the program by assuming that all of the biomethane produced by a digester project will offset die sel fuel used in heavy ‑duty vehicles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4483

How High? Adjusting California’s Cannabis Taxes

Dec 17, 2019 - Miller, Keaton and Boyoung Seo (2019). “Tax Revenues When Substances Substitute: Marijuana, Alcohol, and Tobacco. ” Mimeo, University of Oregon. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4125

Property tax assessment. [Ballot]

Sep 8, 2017 - They also sel l their old home for $1  million. Under the measure, the assessed value of their new condo would be $380,000: $475,000 (assessed value of their prior home) multiplied by 0.8 ($800,000 [the new home ’s market value] divided by $1  million [the prior home ’s market value]).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-012

Teacher employment laws. (Amendment No. 1) [Ballot]

Nov 24, 2015 - The union sel ects the teachers that will represent it. State Constitution Establishes Minimum Funding Requirement for LEAs. State budgeting for LEAs is governed by Proposition  98, passed by voters in 1988.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-078

A proposed constitutional initiative related to medical marijuana. [Ballot]

Sep 3, 2015 - In addition, the measure would result in costs for the state to issue permits to sel l medical marijuana. These costs could vary depending on how the state chooses to implement the permit system but would be unlikely to exceed several tens of millions of dollars annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-041

Substance Abuse Treatment in California: Services Are Cost-Effective to Society

In addition, the GAO indicated that the common practice of using sel f-reported data on drug use and criminal activity before and after treatment may tend to overstate treatment effectiveness. The GAO suggested increased use of objective tests such as urinalysis to confirm self-reported data.
https://lao.ca.gov/1999/0799_substance_abuse/0799_substance_abuse.html

2000 Cal Facts Program Trends Part 4

Variations among county crime rates are probably explained by factors such as demography (areas with larger populations of young men tend to have higher crime rates), wealth (and t hus, availability of jobs and crime-fighting resources), degree of urbanization, and location of certain factors associated with crime (such as gangs and drug manufacturers and sel lers).
https://lao.ca.gov/2000/calfacts/2000_calfacts_program_trends_part4.html

^[PDF] 1971 Budget Analysis: General Administration

Inclusion of Sum for Payment of Tort Liability Claims The budget document indicates proposed expenditures for the coun- sel for state agencies and subsequent injuries fund components at current-year levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1971/05_general_admin_1971.pdf

2001 Budget Analysis Department of Transportation (2660)

We sel ected this project (hereafter referred to as WAN) for review because it represented the department's first major departmentwide system, had a relatively high cost of $85 million, a nd was initially criticized by the state's IT control agencies, DOIT and DOF.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2001/transportation/tran_04_2660_anl01.htm

2005 Initiative Analysis: The Worker Empowerment Act (version 2)

Under state law, businesses, as well as the state and local governments, must purchase workers’ compensation insurance or sel f-insure to pay these expenses. This measure changes a number of provisions of California’s workers’ compensation laws.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2005/051006.htm