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January 5, 2012 - The Governor released his Budget Proposal today. - The Governor’s Budget proposes a total of $10.3 billion in cuts and revenues to balance and to rebuild a $1.1 billion reserve. This includes significant cuts to CalWORKs of $1.4 billion, Medi-Cal ($842 million) and IHSS ($164 million). Similar to last year, the Budget assumes that a portion of its proposals will be adopted by the Legislature by March 1, 2012.

Click here to read UCC's Summary of the Governor's Budget. Click here to review the chart provided in the Governor's Budget of the Realignment Funding Structure.

For a full summary of the Governor's Budget please go to: www.ebudget.ca.gov.

December 29, 2011 - The California Supreme Court ruled that the bill to eliminate Redevelopment is constitutional. See full ruling attached here.

December 12, 2011 - Governor Brown has filed his ballot initiative with the Attorney General's Office. To read it click here.

October 28, 2011 - The Governor has released his 12-point pension plan. To review, click here.

September 19, 2011 - The Legislature has adjourned session and will not return until January 2012, unless a special session is called by the Governor. Here are a few key bills of ours that are pending on the Governor's desk:

AB 646 (Opposed) -- Impasse Proceedings

AB 16x1 (Support) -- Realignment Clean-Up

SB 293 (Opposed) -- Public Contracts

SB 734 (Opposed) -- Workforce

SB 922 (Opposed) -- Project Labor Agreement

June 30, 2011 - The Governor signed the Budget today. Click here to see his message and line item vetoes.

June 27, 2011 - New Majority Plan Announced - After a crazy week of budget passage, vetoes, Controller withholding pay (click here for his analysis), and dueling press conferences, the Governor, the Speaker and the Pro-Tem announced an agreement today on a majority budget plan, also known as “Plan B.”

The “Plan B” proposal by the Democrats is reported to be relying on$4 billion in revenues coming in to the state, and would trigger mid-year cuts to education, public safety, and IHSS if those funds do not appear. According to press reports this plan would also include a tax swap in order to fund public safety realignment, with a vote to occur as early as tomorrow. At the press conference the Governor and the Democratic Leadership also indicated that they will still pursue revenues to be placed on the ballot in 2012. Some of the other “gimmicks” in the last majority plan have been removed including the sale of state buildings.

This information is still preliminary, so stay tuned.

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