Initiative Analyses

The measure specifies that a telephone company could not bill a surcha rge to a residential user of more than 50 cents per monthly phone bill. The amount of the surcharge on mobile telecommunication services and commercial telephone lines would not be capped.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiatives?page=65

1996-97 Budget Analysis: Judiciary and Criminal Justice Overview

In addition, the budget proposes to consolidate the costs of operation of the trial courts at the state level, and assumes the receipt of la rge amounts of federal funds to offset the costs of incarcerating and supervising undocumented felons.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1996/a96dov.html

2003 Initiative Analysis: The 911 Emergency and Trauma Care Act

The measure specifies that a telephone company could not bill a surcha rge to a residential user of more than 50 cents per monthly phone bill. The amount of the surcharge on mobile telecommunication services and commercial telephone lines would not be capped.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2003/030933.htm

Accommodating Prison Population Growth

Given the state's current tax structure and economic outlook, revenue growth will probably not be this la rge. For example, in the 1980s when the state enjoyed relatively strong economic growth General Fund revenues increased by an average of 8 percent per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/1995/010695_three_strikes/sc010695a.html

Recommend pause on troubled payroll IT project and assessment of state IT oversight

Mar 6, 2013 - Implementation was to occur in five phases —known as pilots and waves —where Pilots 1 and 2 would bring a small number of employees into the new system in order to test it prior to Waves 3, 4, and 5, which would fully implement the system in three la rge and roughly proportional stages (SPR 4 documents these changes).
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/717

Recommend pause on troubled payroll IT project and assessment of state IT oversight

Mar 6, 2013 - Implementation was to occur in five phases —known as pilots and waves —where Pilots 1 and 2 would bring a small number of employees into the new system in order to test it prior to Waves 3, 4, and 5, which would fully implement the system in three la rge and roughly proportional stages (SPR 4 documents these changes).
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/716

Overview of the 2003-04 May Revision

However, it also would leave California with a still-formidable imbalance between ongoing revenues and expenditures, which would reeme rge in 2004-05 and persist thereafter, absent corrective actions.
https://lao.ca.gov/2003/may_revision/051903_mayrevision.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: California Community Colleges (6870)

In addition, the success of community college students wishing to eventually earn a four-year degree depends to a la rge extent on how well CCC’s curriculum is aligned with that of the universities and colleges to which students transfer.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/education/ed_25_6870_anl06.html

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - For example, a 2013 study of two la rge fires in San Diego County found that structures that had vegetation cleared within 30 feet survived at about twice the rate of structures that did not have that vegetation clearance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457