The 2019-20 Budget: Higher Education Analysis

Feb 21, 2019 - Compared to freshmen, transfer students at UC are less likely to graduate on time. Of transfer students entering in fall 2015, 57  p ercent graduated within two years. Transfer students, however, have slightly higher overall graduation rates (with a four ‑year graduation rate of 89  p ercent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3946

The 2019-20 Budget: What Can Be Done to Improve Local Planning for Housing? [Publication Details]

Feb 20, 2019 - Format: HTML Description: As part of the 2019‑20 Governor’s Budget, the administration proposes changing state oversight of local housing decisions and proposes offering rewards to cities and counties to encourage them to plan for and approve housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3938

The 2019-20 Budget: What Can Be Done to Improve Local Planning for Housing?

Feb 20, 2019 - Ideally, to evaluate these programs ’ effects we would compare the outcomes of eligible cities and counties to similar cities and counties that were not eligible. All cities and counties, however, were potentially eligible for these programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for the Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 20, 2019 - Specifically, $ 250  m illion would be available to cities and counties to support various activities, like conducting planning and making zoning changes, to help them meet new short ‑term housing production goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3941

The 2019-20 Budget: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 14, 2019 - Additional activities would include increased outreach to disadvantaged communities, enhanced technical support to cities and counties that are undertaking adaptation projects, and increased capacity to implement BCDC ’s regulatory role in reviewing and permitting projects and ensuring that they adequately incorporate SLR adaptation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3933

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 13, 2019 - Create New Special Fund to Smooth Impact of Drug Rebates on Medi‑Cal Budget The Governor additionally proposes to create a new special fund into which drug rebates would be deposited before being transferred to the General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3935

The 2019-20 Budget: Structuring the Budget: Reserves, Debt and Liabilities

Feb 5, 2019 - Specifically, if the state transfers these funds to a pension system, the system ’s board can invest the funds, likely earning a higher rate of return than the funds would earn invested as state reserves.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3925

Need-Based Financial Aid Award Amounts [EdBudget]

Jan 16, 2019 - The Cal Grant A and B tuition award for nonprofit schools in 2019-20 is conditioned on the nonprofit sector enrolling 2,000 students with an associate degree for transfer. If the sector fails to meet this target, its tuition award is scheduled to drop to $8,056.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/228

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - The Governor proposes attributing this $ 700  m illion deposit to the 2018 ‑19 fiscal year, although the actual transfer likely would take place after June 30, 2019. No Deposit Into School ’s Constitutional Reserve Required.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

Main Types of Disaster Recovery Assistance

Jan 10, 2019 - In addition, the State Constitution allows the owner of a damaged home to transfer the assessed value of his/her home to another dwelling within the same county. The law also provides, under certain conditions, a transfer between counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3917