Proposition 6 [Ballot]

Nov 5, 2024 - If this is done by giving more tim e credits instead, costs would decrease because people would serve less time. Any potential increase or decrease in state and local criminal justice costs likely would not exceed the tens of millions of dollars each year (annually).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=6&year=2024

Public access to state and local government records (Amendment #1). [Ballot]

Sep 21, 2023 - Such direct costs generally do not include staff tim e. The extent to which such fees are charged varies by state and local government entity. Retention of Records. The length of time a record is kept by a government entity differs by entity and type of record.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-015

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Health

Apr 5, 2022 - Extreme heat and wildfire smoke that make it dangerous to spend time outside during certain tim es also could disproportionately affect people who are institutionalized (such as patients at State Hospitals and individuals in state prisons and county jails).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4580

The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - Ultimately, the state would have limited recourse when it comes to funding costs incurred by local governments from activities the commission finds to be reimbursable mandates during the tim e the mandate claims were under review.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6

Jun 14, 2019 - At the tim e —using a valuation as of June 30, 2014 —the normal cost for Unit  6 —was estimated to be $185.5  million. In a subsequent valuation that the administration provided to us (as of June 30, 2015), the normal cost for Unit  6 was estimated to be $198.9  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4078

The 2018-19 Budget: Meeting Workforce Demand for Certified Nursing Assistants in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Apr 27, 2018 - We also recommend directing DPH to report quarterly on average processing tim es within its Licensing and Certification Program for CNA-related workload. Information from these quarterly reports could help the Legislature moving forward in setting an appropriate DPH staffing level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3815

Proposed vote on California becoming an independent country. [Ballot]

Jan 11, 2017 - After decades of violent struggle between separatist groups and the Indonesian military, the Indonesian government agreed to a UN-supervised referendum on Tim or-Leste ’s status in 1999. The UN Security Council (which includes the U.S. as one of its five permanent members) established a transitional administration to keep order in Timor-Leste aft er the referendum.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2016-011

LAO Publications

Specifically, he increases total reserves to more than $10 billion and also allocates a sizable portion of discretionary resources to one-tim e infrastructure spending. We encourage the Legislature, as it crafts this year’s budget in line with its own priorities, to begin with a robust target for reserves for the end of 2016-17 and to concentrate spending on one-time purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications?page=35&year=0&publicationType=0

LAO Publications

Specifically, he increases total reserves to more than $10 billion and also allocates a sizable portion of discretionary resources to one-tim e infrastructure spending. We encourage the Legislature, as it crafts this year’s budget in line with its own priorities, to begin with a robust target for reserves for the end of 2016-17 and to concentrate spending on one-time purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications?page=35&year=0&publicationType=0

New Funding Model for Special Education -- Part I

This, in itself, might not be a problem except that the 1979 -80 reports contained numerous inconsistencies, primarily because (1) it was the first year for which expenditure reports were required of all education agencies and (2) at the tim e the reports were prepared, the state's expressed interest in them was informational only.
https://lao.ca.gov/1995/110195_special_ed/se1195a.html