The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Nevertheless, the point-in-time count can serve as a useful indicator of broad homelessness trends over time. In January 2024 (the most recently available data), 187,000 people were counted as homeless —an all-time high for the state, and 36,000 (24  percent) more than were counted in January 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

2018-19 Budget: Voting Equipment for Counties

Mar 16, 2018 - Postal Service or dropped at polls) to county elections officials to be counted. In total, about 58  percent of the 14.6  million ballots cast in the November election in California were VBM ballots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3786

The 2017-18 Budget: Local Update of Census Address Program Overview

Mar 23, 2017 - To reach this measurement, the Census Bureau estimates what proportion of the count was enumerated correctly, what proportion was enumerated incorrectly (double counted, for instance), and the extent to which indi viduals were omitted from the count.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3629

Post Election Manual Tally Mandate

Jan 13, 2016 - Federal law defines a voting system as “the total combination of mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic equipment…that is used to define ballots, to cast and count ballots, to report or display election results and to produce and maintain any audit trail information.”
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3327

Sheriff Court-Security Services Mandate

May 27, 2016 - When the state pays down the backlog, the payments will not count toward Proposition  2 (2014) annual requirements for debt payments from the General Fund. Subscribe | California State Legislature | Online Voter Registration | Privacy Policy | Accessibility Legislative Analyst's Office | The California Legislature's Nonpartisan Fiscal and Policy Advisor 925 L Street, Suite 1000 Sacramento, CA 95814 | (916) 445-4656
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3478

The 2019-20 Budget: What Can Be Done to Improve Local Planning for Housing?

Feb 20, 2019 - Given this, offering rewards to cities and counties in hopes of boosting housing production seems like a risky bet. If the Legislature were to allocate funding for rewards, it cannot be sure what effect, if any, such a program would have on home building.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 9, 2022 - DSS defined seven CCE funding regions, with regional allocations to be determined by factors such as distribution of adult and senior care facilities, homelessness counts, and development costs. DSS also determined a few funding set ‑asides, such as 5  percent for tribes and 8  percent for small counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521