The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Housing and Homelessness

Oct 17, 2019 - The budget package creates new incentives for cities and counties to adopt pro-housing policies. Cities and counties that adopt these policies would receive additional points in the scoring of their applications for certain state grant programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4102

Achieving the Goals of the SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Oct 10, 2023 - Decide What Percentage of State Savings to Transfer to Counties. There is a trade ‑off to consider in deciding what percentage of state savings to transfer to counties. A higher percentage provides greater incentive and resources to the counties to reduce prison commitments but reduces the amount of state savings achieved.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4806

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Feb 15, 2024 - In this report, we assess the architecture of the Governor’s overall Proposition 98 budget and analyze his major proposals for K-12 education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4839

Flexible Funding to California in the American Rescue Plan

Mar 23, 2021 - Cities and counties will receive fiscal recovery funds based on a set of formulas that considers the jurisdiction ’s population, among other factors. The federal government will distribute funds directly to all counties and cities with populations greater than 50,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4407

Breakdown of Local Control Funding Formula [EdBudget]

Jan 18, 2023 - Breakdown of Local Control Funding Formula [EdBudget] a Includes funding for Necessary Small Schools. b Increases the amount of funding districts receive through LCFF base, supplemental, and concentration grants. c Implemented as a special LCFF add-on. d Includes funding related to inter-district transfer students, support for the State Special Schools, the Education Protection Account, and $3.5 million to support the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/699

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Conformity

Oct 17, 2019 - (For example, it was previously possible to exchange the ownership of a copyright on a piece of music for the copyright on a different piec e of music.) Like-kind exchanges for real property, such as land and buildings, are still allowed for all CT and PIT filers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4100

The 2023-24 Budget: Sexual Assault Evidence Kits Testing Mandate

Feb 27, 2023 - Additionally, 12 counties and 8 cities operate and fund their own laboratories and conduct such testing. ( We note that local agencies also contract with private or other governmental laboratories for services.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4714

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2023 - Of this amount, $3  million is from the General Fund via a transfer to the Natural Resources and Parks Preservation Fund and the remainder is from various bond and special funds. These monies mostly support replacing and upgrading various facilities at state parks.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4807

Chronic dialysis clinics. [Ballot]

Oct 14, 2021 - The measure also requires a CDC or its governing entity to report to CDPH every three months with a list of persons who have an ownership interest of at least 5  percent in the clinic. Both CDPH and the CDC or its governing entity must post this information on their websites.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-013

Increasing Oversight of the State Litigation Deposit Fund

Jan 28, 2021 - The largest transfers tended to go to the UCL and the FCA. Transfers to these two funds accounted for at least half of the total transferred to the above DOJ special funds each year over the past decade.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4322