LAO Analysis of the 1997-98 Budget BillJudiciary and Criminal Justice, Departmental Issues Part I

Strong evidence of the "Three Strikes " link can be found in the abrupt decline in new admissions of civil addicts to the prison system. During the year leading up to legislative enactment of the "Three Strikes " law (May 1993 to April 1994), 245 civil addicts per month were being received by the CDC.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1997/crim_justice_depts1-b_anal97.html

1997-98 Budget Analysis: Welfare Reform in California--A Welfare-to-Work Approach

Consequently, the state has had to develop a much smaller number of community service work slots th an had been anticipated. The program, however, has not been evaluated. On Balance, It's Worth Trying.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1997/part5a_welfare_to_work_pi97.html

1998-99 Perspectives and Issues: Taking Advantage of New Federal Higher Education Tax Credits

New program funding for the higher education segments linked to measured improvements in educational outcomes-such as improved retention of students, improved transfer of students from the CCC to the four-year colleges, and improved times-to-degree.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/p_and_i_1998/part_5a_highered_taxcredits_pandi98.html

^[PDF] LAO 1998 Budget Analysis: General Government Chapter

The HWDC budget for development of ISAWS proposes a decrease of $221,000 in the current year and $14 million in the budget year as the data center will no longer need these baseline expenses with the project com- ing to completion.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/pdfs_anl98/general_govt_anl98.pdf

^[PDF] LAO 1998 Budget Analysis: Health and Social Services Chapter

New Medi-Cal Coverage for Welfare “Look-Alikes” The 1996 federal welfare reform legislation eliminated the previous automatic (“categorical”) link between welfare and Medicaid that had existed under the former AFDC Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/pdfs_anl98/health_ss_anl98.pdf

^[PDF] LAO 1999 Budget Analysis: Health & Social Services Chapter

This would help to ensure that the counties have sufficient funds to pay for wage-based com- munity service, but it would result in General Fund costs of up to $20 million in 1999-00 (if all counties were to choose this ap- proach). • Matching Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/health_ss/health_ss_anl99.pdf

^[PDF] LAO 2000 Budget Analysis: General Government Chapter

The department also maintains numerous links on its website to other government agencies. Furthermore, many of the nonjurisdictional calls are clearly not a Gen- eral Fund responsibility (such as landlord/tenant issues, motor vehicles/ driver’s license, and collection agencies).
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/general_govt/gengov_anl00.pdf

^[PDF] The 2006-07 Budget: Perspectives and Issues

A com‑ 1 Part V: Major Issues Facing the Legislature parable level of federal funding is expected to be available to the state in 2006‑07. Mass transit systems also are eligible recipients under many other federal homeland security grants.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/2006_pandi/pandi_06.pdf

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Some Practical Steps to Increase Children’s Enrollment

The final change would be to expand the availability of the Web-based Health-e-App application to the general public so that any family could use a computer to apply for benefits online. Currently, Health-e-App is used only by county welfare offices and CAAs.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/health_ss/hss_04_anl06.html

^[PDF] New Public Employees Benefits Reform Act (version 2)

These other forms of com- pensation include salaries and contributions to employee retirement funds other than those defined pension plans limited under this measure (such as “defined contribution” retirement accounts, for which employers make a specific payment, rather than promise a specific future benefit).
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2009/090726.pdf