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The budget Gov. Jerry Brown proposed in January included program cuts, a June election to extend tax increases and a reordering of state and local government to close a deficit he estimated at $26.4 billion. Lawmakers and Brown have acted to lower the deficit to $15.4 billion. Here are some of the key elements of the original plan and the actions taken recently.
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Cuts: Education -- Brown's plan provided K-12 schools with roughly the same spending as this year. Brown's plan to raise money through a June tax extension has failed, and unless he finds a way to raise the $11.2 billion that plan envisioned, schools will see at least a $2 billion cut. -
Cuts: Higher education -- Lawmakers approved cuts of $500 million each to the UC and CSU systems. Savings: $1 billion. More reductions loom if lawmakers approve an all-cuts budget. -
Cuts: Community Colleges -- Brown signed a bill to increase fees by $10 per unit, from $26 to $36, and approved a $400 million cut to programs to be allocated by college officials. Savings: $510 million. -
Cuts: State employees -- Brown reached agreements with the six bargaining units that had not come to terms on new contracts. Ratifications are pending, and savings will be somewhat less than the $308 million Brown envisioned. -
Cuts: Redevelopment -- Brown has proposed eliminating hundreds of local redevelopment agencies, eventually redirecting property tax revenue they receive to cities, counties and schools. The item is pending in the Legislature. Savings: $1.7 billion -
Cuts: Proposition 10 -- Lawmakers and Brown approved a one-time shift of cigarette tax money that now goes to First Five commissions to pay for Medi-Cal services for children up to age five. Savings: $1 billion -
Cuts: Healthy Families -- Lawmakers and Brown approved measures to increase monthly premiums and hospital co-pays. Savings: $30.5 million, less than a fourth of the $135.7 million Brown sought. -
Cuts: Child Care -- Brown proposed to eliminate services for 11 and 12 year olds; decrease eligibility for subsidy from 75 percent of state median income to 60 percent for savings of $750 million. Democrats approved exemptions to elimination for 11- and 12-year-olds, softened the new eligibility requirements and restored some of the subsidy Brown wanted to cut. Savings: $500 million. -
Cuts: In-home care -- To save $486 million, Brown proposed to reduce the number of hours In-Home Supportive Services workers could care for elderly and disabled residents by 8.4 percent across the board; require physician certification for all clients; and cut domestic services in cases in which caregivers live in the same home as recipients. Legislators rejected all but the physician certification idea, but said they would achieve the governor's savings target through federal funds and other means. -
CutsMedi-Cal: Brown proposed to require patients to provide co-payments for services, limit doctor visits, place spending caps on certain medical equipment and non-life-saving drugs, eliminate adult day care services and reduce rates paid to health providers by 10 percent. Lawmakers softened some of the provisions, including the cap on medical visits, but said the actions will hit the governor's savings target of $1.7 billion. -
Cuts: Developmental services -- Brown proposed deep cuts to the system of 21 regional centers that oversee care for the developmentally disabled to save $750 million, but lawmakers approved only a $375 million cut in funding. -
Cuts: Mental health -- Lawmakers approved Brown's plan to use voter-approved Proposition 63 money to replace general fund money now spent on mental health programs. Savings: $861 million -
Cuts: Cal Fire -- Lawmakers approved Brown's plan to eliminate the fourth firefighter on each engine, returning staffing to 2003 levels. Savings: $30.7 million -
Cuts: Parks -- Lawmakers approved Brown's plan to close state parks with lowest attendance, reduce hours at others and reduce spending at headquarters to save $11 million in the coming year and $22 million annually in subsequent years. -
Cuts: AIDS -- Lawmakers rejected Brown's plan to require higher co-payments for AIDS drugs to eligible participants in the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, but said they could achieve targeted savings through other means. Savings: $16.8 million -
Revenue: Lawmakers approved a maneuver to use truck weight fees for debt service on state transportation bonds, circumventing Proposition 22’s restrictions on taking local transportation dollars. Revenue: $1 billion -
Revenue: Still pending in the Legislature is Brown's plan to require all multistate businesses to calculate their tax liability solely on their sales in California. Businesses could no longer use an old formula that accounted for property and payroll size. Revenue: $1 billion -
Revenue: Lawmakers have yet to approve Brown's plan to eliminate enterprise zones, which offer business tax relief in depressed areas. Revenue: $924 million -
Other: Lawmakers approved Brown's tax amnesty plan to settle pending corporate and personal income tax shelter cases. Revenue: $220 million -
Revenue: Still pending is Brown's plan to extend through June 30 a fee on hospitals. Revenue: $160 million -
Other: Lawmakers approved borrowing from special funds and shifting a portion of Indian gambling revenue to the general fund. Revenue: $2.5 billion -
Realignment: Lawmakers backed away from Brown's plan to eliminate the state Division of Juvenile Justice by June 2014 and send money to local governments to house juvenile offenders. That would have saved $78 million by June 30, 2012 and $250 million ultimately. Brown's plan to send some state functions to counties remains under negotiation. -
Realignment: Lawmakers softened Brown's plan to house in county jails low-level, nonviolent, non-sex offenders without serious prior convictions. The governor's entire realignment plan is in limbo because his revenue package has not been approved. -
Realignment: Lawmakers so far have not approved Brown's plan to reduce the number of services local governments are required to provide. Savings: $372 million
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