California’s state budget has fluctuated wildly in the past several years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, California saw the largest surpluses in state history, including anunprecedented $31 billion surplus in 2022-2023. However a weakening economy, a massive loss of the state population and bus...
“I support augmenting the Governor’s budget to add state funding for this purpose, and we have already had a productive discussion on this,” Rendon said. Senate Republican Leader Scott Wilk praised Newsom for proposals like halting the gas tax increase, boosting law enforceme...
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Fueling the Legislative Analyst’s Office’s worry is disagreement with Newsom over just how much more tax revenue the state can collect. Last fiscal year state tax collections fell 20%. Newsom’s 2024-25 proposed budget projects an 8% increase in 2023-24, the current budget year. “Halfwa...
Additionally, county projects are required to attain the lowest EUI (Energy Use Intensity) possible within the client's program and project's budget. County projects are also required to exceed the current California Energy Code Title 24 by at least 20%. Last Update Thursday, June 20, 2024 -...
Lawmakers vote on the blank bills in the budget committee and on the floor. Then the blank bills go on the shelf until after the budget is passed. When deals are made in a back room at the eleventh hour, the text of every deal goes onto one of these blank bills as an “amendment....
"There's a tremendous amount of staff time that goes into researching and analyzing different proposals," Michali said. "And (staff) can only go so far without a chair because (they) don't know what the new chairs' priorities are." ...
California budget debate underway; infrastructure debt proposals loom.Bel Bruno, Joe
People listen to the California reparations task force, a nine-member committee studying restitution proposals for African Americans, at a meeting at Lesser Hall in Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, May 6, 2023. The panel began voting Saturday on recommendat...
Katie Lagomarsino, a budget analyst with the Department of Finance, told lawmakers at a hearing today that the department is “hearing, anecdotally, that families are fearful of sending their children to school in light of deportation threats being made at the federal level, thus resulting in low...