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

Oct 17, 2019 - This funding is divided among the state ’s 13 m ost populous cities, counties, and Continuums of Care —local entities that administer housing assistance programs within a particular area, often covering a county or group of counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4083

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 - This increase in the low-income housing tax credit has no budgetary costs in 2019-20 because the credits will be claimed on future tax returns. New Process for Housing Element Compliance.   The budget package creates a new judicial process by which cities and counties can be fined for failing to comply with housing element law.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4102

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

Oct 17, 2019 - These include loans from other state funds to the General Fund and outstanding obligations to other entities, like cities, counties, and school and community college districts. Bond Debt. These liabilities include the principal and interest amount of outstanding general obligation and lease revenue bonds issued by the state to finance capital infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4106

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Expands Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)

Oct 17, 2019 - The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Expands Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Expands Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Overview The EITC is a personal income tax credit that is intended to reduce poverty by increasing the after-tax income of California ’s poorest working households.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4099

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Conformity

Oct 17, 2019 - This post explains how each of the tax conformity provisions changes the state ’s tax laws. The administration coupled tax conformity with an expansion of the state ’s Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4100

September 2019 State Tax Collections [EconTax Blog]

Oct 11, 2019 - (Such changes in behavior should occur regardless of state tax conformity because the state tax rate is much lower than the federal rate.)  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/405

Proposed constitutional initiative regarding how Californians vote and the composition of the State Senate. [Ballot]

Oct 9, 2019 - Total county costs to administer elections are estimated to be in the range of the low to mid-hundreds of millions of dollars per year; however, the cost per county varies widely depending on the population, size of the county, and number of candidates, among other factors.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2019-013

Proposed statutory initiative related to the state's initiative, referendum, and recall processes. [Ballot]

Oct 8, 2019 - County elections officials have to verify the validity of thousands of voter signatures on petitions. Campaigns to support or oppose such measures regularly raise millions of dollars to develop proposals, fund signature-gathering campaigns, and present their view points to the public at large.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2019-009

Proposed statutory initiative related to the cultivation, sale, and use of cannabis. [Ballot]

Oct 8, 2019 - The proposition also exc luded medical cannabis sales (with a valid state identification card) from state and local sales taxes. Authorized Local Governments to Regulate and Tax Cannabis Businesses. Proposition  64 provided cities and counties authority to restrict and regulate cannabis businesses located within their jurisdictions, including allowing them to limit the locations of these businesses or ban them altogether.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2019-010