^[PDF] A Special Session Guide T To

In the next section of this report, we address the issue of teacher quality and training—a matter intimately linked with effective accountability for student success. Legislative Analyst’s Office 23 Teacher Quality and Training • Hold institutions and individuals accountable for developing quality teachers. • Give institutions and individuals the resources, flexibility and
https://lao.ca.gov/1999/0199_k-12_reform/0199_k-12_reform.pdf

1999-00 Perspectives and Issues: Perspective on State Expenditures

The share of the budget going to health programs rose primarily because of rising welfare-link ed caseloads (due to the automatic qualification of welfare recipients for Medi-Cal) and rapid increases in the cost of medical care.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/1999_pandi/part4a/part4a_pandi99.html

^[PDF] Increases excise taxes on the distribution of cigarettes and other tobacco products and applies the tobacco products excise tax to electronic cigarettes (Amendment #1).

The use of tobacco products has been linked to various adverse health effects by the federal health authorities and numerous scientific studies. Thus, this measure would reduce state and local government health care spending on tobacco-related diseases over the long term.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2015/150544.pdf

2000 Budget Perspectives: Major Expenditure Proposals

Specifically, we do not think the proposal will achieve the goals of improving regulatory a nd restoration efforts for two reasons: (1) the data collection design is flawed and (2) the finished assessments are inadequately linked to regulatory and restoration efforts.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/2000_pandi/part4b/part4b_pandi00.html

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Reforming the CALFED Bay-Delta Program

We recommend making the link with the budget much stronger. Specifically, we recommend that the legislation establishing performance measures also require tha t any CALFED budget proposal submitted to the Legislature detail how the budget change would impact performance measures.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/resources/res_02_anl06.html

Child Support Enforcement: Implementing the Legislative Reforms of 1999

For purposes of allocating funds to the counties in the current year, the department has defined reasonable amounts as costs eligible for federal reimbursement, but has also linked the reasonable amounts provision to the budget approval process.
https://lao.ca.gov/2000/012700_child_support/012700_child_support.html

Highlights of the 2001-02 Analysis and P&I—Press Release

Need to Link Developmentally Disabled Offenders To Community Care In the face of recent court cases, the CDC prepared a remedial plan to increase services to inmates with developmental disabilities. The plan, however, does not address the questio n of providing adequate community services for parolees.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2001/highlights_01-02_analysis.html

^[PDF] The 2015-16 Budget: Health Benefits for Retired State Employees

Maximum Contribution Linked to Benefits Received During Career. The administration proposes tying a retiree’s maximum state health contribution to the formula they were under as active employees. Specifically, employees who receive state health benefits under the 80/80 formula would receive retiree health benefits under the same formula. 2015-16 B U D G E T 10 Legislative
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/budget/retiree-health/retiree-health-benefits-031615.pdf

LAO Analysis of the 1997-98 Budget Bill Resources Departmental Issues, Part I

Supporting documents accompanying the department's request generally describe the need to return to a higher base funding level, but fail to link program needs and workload with the amount requested.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1997/resources_depts1_anal97.html

^[PDF] Education of Foster Youth in California

LAO 30 Thank you For more information on any of the items in this presentation, please contact the Legislative Analyst’s Office: Stefanie Fricano 916-319-8336 www.lao.ca.gov For more information about FYS programs in general, please see the following link to the Department of Education: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/pf/fy/
https://lao.ca.gov/2009/edu/foster_children/foster_ed_052809.pdf