Building California’s Behavioral Health Infrastructure: Progress Update and Opportunities for the Proposition 1 Bond

Feb 5, 2025 - For example, RAND found that the shortage in adult inpatient mental health beds results in occupancy rates that are higher than generally accepted levels, long wait lists, facilities unable to transfer patients to settings of more appropriate levels of care, and excessive patient stays in hospital emergency departments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

Local Government Control [Ballot]

Sep 15, 2020 - California ’s cities and counties make most decisions about when, where, and what type of housing will be built. Cities and counties enact zoning ordinances to set property-specific land use requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2020-002

Proposition 21 [Ballot]

Nov 3, 2020 - Several Cities Have Rent Control Laws.   Several California cities —including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Jose —have laws that limit how much landlords can increase rents for housing from one year to the next.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=21&year=2020

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Requires Updates on Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) Card Replacement Time Line. The spending plan includes supplemental reporting language requiring CDSS to provide updates to the Legislature on the schedule for EBT card replacement, how the implementation is minimizing risk for consumers, and the interaction of state and federal funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/2

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 29, 2021 - Cities. $336  million to cities with populations over 300,000 based on each city ’s share of the 2019 point-in-time homelessness count for the CoC in their region. Requires HCFC to allocate no more that 45  percent of this allocation to a single city.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4468

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

Potential Impacts of Recent State Asset Forfeiture Changes

Jan 6, 2020 - Seizure and Transfer of Certain Items to the Government. Asset forfeiture refers to ( 1)  t he seizure of cash, property, or other items that are suspected of being tied to a criminal offense and ( 2)  t he transfer of ownership of these items to the government.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4128

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control

Feb 24, 2023 - Under the proposal, $20.5  million would be transferred in 2023-24, $16  million in 2024-25, and $12  million in 2025-26. In addition, ABC has indicated that if the above transfer is approved, it would also bring the Alcohol Policing Partnership grant program funding back to its authorized funding level of $3  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4705

Renewable energy (Amendment #1). [Ballot]

Aug 22, 2023 - Typi cally, local jurisdictions such as cities or counties inspect the construction and issue permits to operate when solar panels are installed. These local governments cover the costs of conducting this oversight through permit fees levied on owners.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-008

Evaluation of a Tax Exemption for Zero-Emission Buses

Apr 15, 2024 - Local governments, such as cities, counties, and local transit authorities, generally own and operate these agencies. In 2019, passenger fares and fees provided 17  percent of funding for these agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4890