CDCAN Report #141, Thursday June 30, 2011

GOVERNOR BROWN SIGNS MAIN BUDGET BILL – MAKES ONLY $23 MILLION IN LINE ITEM VETOES – KEEPS FUNDING FOR ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE

SACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN)  [Last updated 06/30/2011  12:50 PM  ] -  Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 87, the main budget for the State’s 2011-2012 budget year that begins on Friday, July 1.   A full CDCAN Report on the Governor’s actions will be issued within the hour.  The Governor kept in the budget the funding restored by the Legislature for Adult Day Health Care but deleted a provision in the budget that requires a specified spending level for the program during the 2011-2012 State Budget year because “it does not consider other services available to these individuals [using Adult Day Health Care] that preserve their ability to remain in the community.”

“This is an honest but painful budget that returns California’s General Fund spending to levels unseen since the 1970s. We’ve cut our deficit by $15 billion dollars and achieved financial balance this year. This is a huge step forward. But California’s long-term stability depends on our willingness to continue to pay down debt and live within our means,” said Governor Brown.

SB 87 – REVISED MAIN BUDGET BILL LINKS BELOW

AUTHOR: Sen. Mark Leno (Democrat – San Francisco) 

CDCAN SUMMARY:

The main revised budget bill for 2011-2012 State budget year that begins July 1, 2011 and ends June 30, 2012. 

PREVIOUS ACTION 06/28/2011: PASSED Assembly by vote of 51 to 28. PASSED State Senate by vote of 21 to 19. Sent to Governor at 09:45 PM.

LATEST ACTION 06/30/2011: SIGNED by Governor with $23 million in State general fund line item vetoes

NEXT STEPS:  Legislature can, with 2/3rds votes in both houses, over-ride the Governor’s line-item veto and also a veto of any specific bill.  However it is extremely rare that the Legislature attempts to over-ride a veto – and even rarer that when they do, that they actually succeed (the last time was in July 1979) during Governor Brown’s first term dealing with insurance and pay raises for state employees.   

EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediate upon signature of Governor.

CDCAN COMMENT: Replaces SB 69, passed in March  (but never sent to the Governor until June 15th) and AB 98, passed on June 15, 2011 – both together the main budget bills for 2011-2012, that the Governor vetoed on June 16th).

Some reductions approved in March or in June, are only in the main budget bill and not in any budget trailer bill – such as the cut to MSSP (Multipurpose Senior Services Program) because no changes in State law was required.  (AB 110)  This main budget bill is 784 pages long (in the pdf version). 

LATEST VERSION OF BILL – HTML:  http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_87_bill_20110628_enrolled.html

LATEST VERSION OF BILL – PDF: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_87_bill_20110628_enrolled.pdf

PRIORITY:  VERY HIGH