2002 Budget Analysis: Health and Social Services, Child Welfare Services

The Emergency Assistance (EA) Program, a component of the CWS Program, provides a variety of services to children who are placed in foster care or are at risk of foster care plac ement. Case management, one portion of the EA Program, provides funds for case planning and reviews; foster and adoptive parent orientation; and a variety of other services to supp ort children and families in the CWS program.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2002/health_ss/healthss_21_CWS_anl02.htm

2003 Initiative Analysis: Limitation on Cruel Confinement of Pigs

The measure authorizes a separate misdemeanor charge for the unlawful confinement or tethering of ea ch pig. The measure allows for specified exceptions to its provisions. Specifically, the measure does not apply to county fairs or during medical procedures or examinations.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2003/030667.htm

High-quality public schools. [Ballot]

Dec 6, 2023 - For example, local governing boards decide on the number of credentialed or classified staff to hire and determine class sizes at ea ch of their school sites. Local governing boards also generally have discretion (within state requirements) over the operation of the schools in their boundaries (including school site location), equipment purchases, extracurricular activities, and other functions essential to the day-to-day operation of schools within the entities ’ boundaries.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-028

Reorganization of the Office of the Inspector General

Feb 24, 2012 - The state budgets department positions at mid-step because the mid-step functions like an average salary for all department employees within ea ch classification. The state assumes that some positions in a department will be filled by employees earning below the mid-step salary while other positions will be filled by more senior employees earning higher pay.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/535

2002 Initiative Analysis: Community service requirements for high school pupils

On the other hand, if L EAs required pupils to perform community service as part of an instructional day and the students had to travel off campus for some or all of this service, LEAs could incur signifi cant transportation costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2002/020329_INT.htm

Why Has Income Tax Withholding Lagged, Despite Job Growth? [EconTax Blog]

Nov 16, 2022 - Specifically, the figure below shows that withholding during the final week of ea ch month is 12 percent lower this year, despite withholding from the first three weeks of each month being higher in 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/759

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (5180)

Moreover, TANF funds can be spent for any purpose permitted under the AFDC program (the predecessor of TANF) or under AFDC Emergency Assistance (EA). (For example, AFDC-EA could be used for juvenile probation.)
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_13_5180_anl06.html

LAO 2007 Budget Analysis: California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (5180)

Moreover, TANF funds can be spent for any purpose permitted under the AFDC program or under AFDC-Emergency Assistance (EA). (For example, AFDC-EA could be used for juvenile probation.) Finally, up to 10 percent of TANF funds may be transferred to the Title XX Social Services Block Grant and then expended in accordance with the federal rules pertaining to Title XX.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2007/health_ss/hss_10_5180_anl07.aspx

^[PDF] Overview of the Governor's Budget: 2007-08

Adverse outcomes in just a few of these areas could eas‑ ily eliminate most or all of the budget’s proposed reserve. Given the above factors, as well as the continuing existence of the structural budget shortfall facing the state, it will be important that the Legislature develop a more realistic budget which includes alternative budgetary solutions and avoids raising ongoing commitments (absent identified funding to pay for them).
https://lao.ca.gov/2007/budget_overview/07-08_budget_ov.pdf

LAO Publications

Specifically, we (1) review the characteristics of rural areas and health care services in these ar eas, (2) discuss current state programs, (3) highlight specific problems we identified within the existing services, and (4) suggest ways the Legislature could improve the provisio n of health care services to rural areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications?page=219&year=0&publicationType=0