Banking on a rosier revenue forecast, state lawmakers proposed $2.7 billion more in funding for TK-12 schools and community colleges than Newsom did in May.<\/p>\n
Schools and educators were hoping for more. They wanted the Legislature to reject Newsom\u2019s proposal to withhold $3.9 billion in constitutionally guaranteed school money \u2014 an accounting mechanism to prevent overpaying schools in case the projected revenue doesn\u2019t materialize.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe demand that the Legislature and the governor follow the law, stop with the gimmicks and the shell games, and fully fund our schools,\u201d said David Goldberg, president of the California Teachers Association. \u201cOur union is prepared to do whatever it takes to hold them accountable if they don\u2019t. Our students deserve no less.\u201d<\/p>\n
More generous with counties<\/p>\n
The Legislature\u2019s spending plan would give counties more money to step up eligibility checks for Californians applying for food stamps and health care benefits, reviews that are now required under Trump\u2019s spending bill. <\/p>\n
It would also allocate $125 million to help counties reestablish indigent care \u2014 a program serving low-income Californians that largely went away under Obamacare.<\/p>\n
State lawmakers also want to set aside $900 million for the state\u2019s homelessness fund, whereas Newsom included just $500 million in his proposal.<\/p>\n
More revenue, please<\/p>\n
Newsom proposed three new tax measures and lawmakers are on board with them:<\/p>\n
The proposals come at a time when California voters have rejected most local tax initiatives during the June primary. But Newsom\u2019s proposals require no voter approval \u2014 just the support of two-thirds of each legislative chamber. <\/p>\n
There\u2019s still an appetite among lawmakers to make corporations pay up. Senate Democrats had proposed a monthly charge on big employers for having employees enrolled in Medi-Cal, but have now backed away from the plan, instead asking the next governor to pitch \u201cfully viable options\u201d next year.<\/p>\n
Save more money for rainy days<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a consensus between the Legislature and the governor to raise the ceiling on the revenue the state can deposit into its rainy day fund. The question is how much. State leaders are constitutionally required to make deposits into the account each year, but the balance cannot exceed 10% of the state\u2019s general fund tax revenue under current law. <\/p>\n
Changing that amount would require voter approval. Lawmakers are considering placing a measure on the November ballot that would allow them to sock away more money for lean years. They have a tight deadline of June 25 to settle on what they want to put before voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Banking on a rosier revenue forecast, state lawmakers proposed $2.7 billion more in funding for TK-12 schools and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-361547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}