The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 17, 2019 - New Government Entities to Implement AB  1054. Budget-related legislation established new government entities to implement some of the provisions of AB  1054. The budget package establishes, beginning January 1, 2020, a Wildfire Safety Division within CPUC.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4103

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Education

Oct 17, 2019 - Of the $263  million, $179  million is available in 2019 ‑20, with the remainder of funds allocated over the following three years ($20  million in 2020 ‑21 and $32  million each in 2021 ‑22 and 2022 ‑23).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4096

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Oct 17, 2019 - The budget includes $4.4  million from the Gambling Control Fund for two years to continue 32 existing positions intended to reduce the backlog of licensing applications from cardrooms and third-party providers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4097

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

Oct 17, 2019 - Legislation ratifying the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the state and Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol) —Chapter 859 (AB  118, Committee on Budget) —changed the 2020 ‑21 supplemental payment so that $243  million General Fund goes to the Highway Patrol pension benefit and $22  million is apportioned as described above, based on General Fund annual contributions to CalPERS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4106

University of California Capital Outlay Projects [EdBudget]

Sep 18, 2019 - Excluding the medical school projects at Riverside and Merced, the bond-supported projects were approved using the process established in Chapter 50 of 2013 (AB 94, Committee on Budget). The annual debt service on these bonds is estimated to be $15.5 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/305

The Quiet Transformation in California’s Cash Management

Aug 29, 2019 - In 2019, AB  1054 [Holden] authorized a loan of up to $10.5  billion for wildfire liability claims.) Mirroring the broader economy, it is inevitable that at some point, the state ’s revenue trends will weaken.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4091

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 5 (Highway Patrol)

Aug 26, 2019 - Specifically, beginning in 1975 ‑76, Chapter  723 of 1974 (AB  3801, Brown) required SPB to survey pay levels of officers in the five jurisdictions and to base its recommendations for highway patrol officers ’ salaries each year on the estimated average salary across the five jurisdictions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4089

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6

Jun 14, 2019 - In order to comply with AB  2550, CDCR likely needs to recruit additional women correctional officers to work in its women ’s prisons. That being said, we do not know what is the necessary ratio of women to men correctional officers at female institutions in order to comply with AB  2550.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4078

The 2019-20 May Revision: K-12 Cal Grant Mandate

May 28, 2019 - To streamline the GPA submission process and encourage higher Cal Grant participation, Chapter 679 of 2014 (AB 2160, Ting) requires that all high school seniors in public schools be considered Cal Grant applicants unless they opt out during their junior year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4052

The 2019-20 May Revision: Sales Tax Exemptions for Diapers and Menstrual Products

May 12, 2019 - For example, Chapter  687 of 2017 (AB  10, Garcia) requires relatively high-poverty middle schools and high schools to provide free menstrual products in restrooms. In many other areas, however, the state ’s policies could raise the equity concern described above.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4040