The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Conformity [Publication Details]

Oct 17, 2019 - This post describes the 2019-20 budget actions changing state individual and business tax provisions (partial tax conformity).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4100

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Health and Human Services

Oct 17, 2019 - In recent years, the Legislature has called for the state to develop a plan for issues related to the growing aging population, including how best to structure state programs to meet the needs of the increasing number of seniors and assess the long-term impact of demographic changes on the state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4104

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 17, 2019 - In addition to existing programs that support parks, the budget provides $58  million from the General Fund for one-time grants for various specific local park and community recreation projects located throughout the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4103

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - Pension Contribution Growth. The California Public Employees ’ Retirement System (CalPERS) board establishes the state ’s contribution rates —as a percentage of pay —to fund employee pension benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 17, 2019 - Teachers, administrators, and other certified employees of school districts earn pension benefits from the California State Teachers ’ Retirement System (CalSTRS). Other school district employees, such as clerical staff, also earn pension benefits administered by CalPERS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4083

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Education

Oct 17, 2019 - These augmentations include a total of $252  million for compensation increases —including salary costs for represented and nonrepresented employees, pension costs, and higher retiree health care costs —and other operational cost increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4096

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 17, 2019 - Such funds are remitted to the state by counties that collect more property tax than state law allows them to spend on education. The budget package also inc reases, as of June 30, 2020, the amount each trial court is able to retain as reserves from 1  percent to 3  percent of its prior-year operating budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4097

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

Oct 17, 2019 - Allocations to each local entity are based on the entity ’s share of the statewide homeless population in 2019, however, entities must apply for funding by describing their current efforts to address homelessness and how the state funds would be used.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4102

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Debt Liabilities

Oct 17, 2019 - Pensions. Between the two pension systems, the state ’s pension unfunded liabilities are estimated to total $93.1  billion ($59.7  billion at CalPERS for state employee pensions and $33.4  billion at CalSTRS for teachers ’ pensions).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4106

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Transportation

Oct 17, 2019 - The budget includes a total of $85.5  million (State Highway Account) and 429.4 state staff positions —as well as 20 external consultant equivalent positions —to work on roughly 700 PIDs in 2019 ‑20, with roughly half of them expected to be completed in that year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4098