Building California’s Behavioral Health Infrastructure: Progress Update and Opportunities for the Proposition 1 Bond

Feb 5, 2025 - This funding, however, has been concentrated within 11 out of 30 small counties. The remaining 19 small counties did not receive any awards in these rounds. In addition, there has been mixed success in siting behavioral health infrastructure in counti es where it did not exist prior to BHCIP.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

^[PDF] Update: Racial and Ethnic Disproportionalities and Disparities in California’s Child Welfare System

For child poverty population (ages 0-17) estimate for 2022, CCWIP uses American Community Survey five-year sample (2017-2021). All data retrieved August 11, 2023. URL: https://ccwip.berkeley.edu. Relationship Between Poverty and Foster Placements Across California Counties Percent of Children in Foster Care 0.25 5 10 15 20 25
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/socservices/2024/Child-Welfare-Disparities-040324.pdf

Overview of the 2017 Transportation Funding Package

Jun 8, 2017 - Starting November 1, 2017, the transportation funding package adds a 12  cent per gallon base excise tax —bringing total base excise taxes to 30  cents per gallon. It also adjusts the rates for inflation starting in 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3688

^[PDF] “Examining Racial Disproportionality in Child Protective

“Examining Racial Disproportionality in Child Protective Services Case Decisions,” Child and Youth Services Review, Volume 34, Issue 11, pages 2188-2200, November 2012 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.07.012 Hobbs, Sue et al .
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2024/4897/disproportionalities-disparities-child-welfare-042424.pdf

California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities

Apr 24, 2024 - Parameters set by realignment and Proposition  30 have resulted in the state choosing to implement many new child welfare program components as county options and consequently also result in California ’s 58 counties making different implementation choices for child welfare programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4897

Sales Tax Rates: Prop. 30 and Comparisons to Other States [EconTax Blog]

Dec 15, 2016 - Proposition 30 of 2012 increased the state’s sales and use tax (SUT) and personal income tax rates. The quarter-cent SUT rate created by Proposition 30 will expire on January 1, 2017. As a result, sales tax rates in California—which vary across cities and counties , currently ranging from 7.5 percent to 10 percent—will drop into the 7.25 percent to 9.75 percent range.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/227

Overview of Proposition 1 and Assessment of Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program [Publication Details]

Apr 7, 2025 - Overview of Proposition 1 and Assessment of Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5027

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - Since 2017, the state has been implementing interim LOC rates for resource families, Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Programs (STRTPs), Foster Family Agencies (FFAs), Intensive Services Foster Care (ISFC), and other specialized models of foster care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/6

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

Apr 3, 2025 - However, the accounting firm ’s evaluation of DFPI ’s established programs found an additional $30  million in unfunded balances across established subprograms that are not in the administration ’s proposed bill.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - In this context, the two main parts of the Arellano and Bonhomme (2017) model are (1)  a set of equations that predict the conditional quantiles of the wage distribution, and (2)  an equation that predicts whether each worker responds to the survey ’s wage questions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4