Legislative Republicans proposed a total of $22 billion in cuts and revenues to help close California's estimated $41.8 billion budget deficit on Monday.
Of that $15.6 billion were in cuts to existing programs.
Education, the state's biggest expenditure, takes the biggest hit, with more than $10.6 billion of the cuts allocated to K-12 schools and community colleges. That would bring school funding to just about the minimum required by state law.
The GOP lawmakers also proposed to eliminate funding for state transit agencies and an across-the-board 10 percent cut to the University of California and California State University systems.
Deep cuts in welfare and Medi-Cal programs also were proposed. The plan also would change eligibility rules to make it harder to enroll in those programs.
In a symbolic move, the GOP leaders also proposed a 5 percent cut (worth $26.2 million) to the Legislature itself, including the salaries of lawmakers. But that cut is smaller than the proposed lowering of monthly cash assistance to the poor, elderly, blind and disabled (where couples' monthly SSI/SSP grants would be dropped from $1,524 per month to $1,407.)
A list of the cuts is after the jump:
Legislature - 5 percent across-the-board cut, including cut to lawmakers' salaries
$26.2 million
Judicial Branch - Eliminate COLA provided in 2008-09
$105.3 million
Judicial Branch - Suspend cost-of-living adjustment for one-year
$99.9 million
State employee Compensation Changes
$802.5 million
OPR - Eliminate Cesar Chavez Grants
$5.0 million
Corrections - GPS Parole Proposal
$57.4 million
Hydrogen Highway - Eliminate funding
$6.0 million
Fi$CAL - Eliminate funding
$30.0 million
Medi-Cal - Suspend County Eligibility Processing Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA)
$24.6 million
Medi-Cal (1) Reduce eligibility for working families and immigrants, (2) eliminate certain optional benefits, including, optometry and psychology, and (3) reduce reimbursement rates for public hospitals
$406.1 million
Medi-Cal - Reinstate share of cost for care to 2001 eligibility level for aged, blind, and disabled
$215.9 million
Medi-Cal - Delay implementation of SB 437. This program could increase waste, fraud and abuse in Medi-Cal
$13.0 million
Medi-Cal - Suspend 90% Rate Increase for FPACT
$56.9 million
Healthy Families Program - Freezes funding for new enrollment
$28.4 million
3-Percent Rate Reduction for Regional Center Payments - Discount payments to regional center service providers by three percent effective December 1, 2008, some payments exempt
$85.5 million
Department of Developmental Services - Expand cost participation (parental co-pay) based on family earnings
$10.0 million
Department of Developmental Services - Establishes cost effectiveness definition to ensure that taxpayer moneys are not used to fund ineffective services
$29.0 million
CalWORKs - Suspend 2009 COLA
$99.0 million
SSI/SSP - Suspend June 2010 COLA
$26.0 million
SSI/SSP - (1) Reduce grants to federal minimum ($830 per month for individuals and $1407 for couple). (2) Eliminate Cash Assistance Program for recent immigrants
$1.3 billion
CalWORKs - (1) Make changes to welfare to work program requirements, including establishing time limits for child-only cases and work requirements for families who have reached their time limit, (2) implement self sufficiency reviews, and (3) 10 percent reduction to grants
$913.1 million
In-Home Supportive Services Program (IHSS) - Target program services to the neediest individuals - (1) provide nonmedical services only to the highest need consumers and (2) increase how much some individuals will have to pay before receiving subsidized care $117.0 million Governor Reduce state participation in IHSS worker wages to the state minimum wage ($8 per hour) plus 60 cents per hour for health benefits
$269.5 million
Various Social Services Programs - Eliminate State Food Stamps for immigrants who are not eligible for federal assistance.
$30.3 million
Eliminate State Funding for Transit Agencies
$459.6 million
Proposition 98 (K-14) - Fund education at minimum guarantee under voter-approved Prop. 98, provide flexibility in education spending
$8.65 billion
Proposition 98 (K-14) - Deferred maintenance payments
$280 million
Proposition 98 (K-14) - Reduce Proposition 49
$550 million
Proposition 98 (K-14) - Settle up to reduce base
$1.0 billion
Proposition 98 (K-14) - No settlement payment needed
$150 million
Higher Education - 10 percent across-the-board reduction to University of
California, California State University and Hastings
$264.2 million
Higher Education - Increase student/faculty ratio to 20.5
$340.9 million
Higher Education - Phase out General Fund support for excess course credits
$57.9 million
Higher Education - Repeal AB 540 which allows undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition.
$75.0 million
Office of Planning and Research - No funding for census and volunteer network.
$1.5 million
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