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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that the rainbow flag would be flown over the California State Capitol through July 1 in recognition of LGBTQ Pride Month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1140671980900769794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsom said\u003c/a> it was the first time in state history the flag had flown over the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not entirely true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/BAR_19901011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an archive copy of the Bay Area Reporter\u003c/a>, the flag was actually approved to fly over the California dome on Oct. 11, 1990, for National Coming Out Day. It was a request made by Sen. Milton Marks of San Francisco and approved by the Joint Rules Committee of the California state Senate and Assembly. The flag was to be raised at sunrise. After being taken down at the end of the day, it was to be sent to the National Coming Out Day headquarters in Santa Fe, New Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, that raising of the flag lasted only a few hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/BAR_19901018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The paper reported\u003c/a> that outrage and protests started almost immediately once the flag was flying. Gov. George Deukmejian ordered the flag taken down after only a few hours — a decision that Pete Wilson, his eventual successor, strongly agreed with at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the paper:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>…state police reported that ‘there were threats by veterans about shooting or burning the flag’ and that veterans didn’t want to have a scheduled rally under a ‘queer flag.’\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/BAR_19901018\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11755434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/BAR_19901018_0000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/BAR_19901018_0000.jpg 301w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/BAR_19901018_0000-160x244.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time around, 29 years later, the raising of the flag seems to have had a different reception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, we celebrate and support our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community’s right to live out loud – during Pride month and every month,” said Newsom in a press release. “By flying the pride flag over the State Capitol, we send a clear message that California is welcoming and inclusive to all, regardless of how you identify or who you love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online and in person, the reaction has been relatively welcoming. Of the nearly 1,000 responses the governor got to his original tweet, the majority have been in favor of the move and are celebratory. However, some have also argued the flag pole should be reserved for only the state and United States flags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other municipalities have debated whether to fly pride flags. The city of Dublin initially said it would not to fly the pride flag over City Hall, but then \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11752477/dublin-reverses-its-decision-allows-pride-flag-to-fly-over-city-hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reversed that decision\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado and Wisconsin have also chosen to fly a rainbow flag this month. On a federal level, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-admin-tells-u-s-embassies-they-can-t-fly-n1015236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Trump administration has told embassies they can’t fly pride flags over their buildings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this may be the first successful flying of the flag at the Capitol flagpole, it has previously been hung over balconies both inside and outside the building, which was also illuminated in rainbow colors in June 2015 in celebration of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10575868/supreme-court-all-states-must-license-same-sex-marriages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the U.S. Supreme Court striking down bans on same-sex marriage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DavidCamposSF/status/1140835073236717568\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>An unprecedented haul of tax dollars generated by a roaring economy. A governor who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714545/newsom-promises-bold-leadership-as-governor-but-can-he-deliver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaigned on a big-ticket policy agenda of long-time lefty favorites\u003c/a>, including universal childcare and state-funded healthcare for all. A Legislature so thoroughly packed with Democrats it gives rise to a new term—\"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/a-deep-blue-sea-of-california-lawmakers-take-oath-of-office-today/\">giga-majority\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians could be forgiven for expecting it all to add up to liberal bonanza, a gusher of policies that the Democratic Party’s base has been clamoring to enact for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11740828,news_11714545\" label=\"Gov. Newsom's Plans So Far\"]But as the new super-blue Legislature sends Gov. Gavin Newsom his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11754739/california-passed-a-215-billion-budget-heres-whats-between-the-lines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first state budget\u003c/a> and the Capitol passes the halfway point for making new laws this year, the progressive policies that are advancing amount to less of a torrent than a trickle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California may look pretty far to the left from a national perspective, but state-wise, lawmakers have already killed or downsized major items on the progressive wish list. They rejected bills to rein in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/tighter-charter-school-regulations-local-control-report-newsom-task-force/\">charter school growth\u003c/a>, curb oil production, expand data privacy rights and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/flavored-tobacco-ban-floundering-california-legislature-vaping-electronic-cigarettes/\">regulate e-cigarettes\u003c/a>. They drastically scaled back ambitious agendas to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11751060/a-rare-tenant-win-in-the-capitol-but-why-dont-californias-renters-have-more-political-punch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protect renters\u003c/a> and limit \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/soda-taxes-fizzling-california-capitol-legislature/\">soda\u003c/a> consumption. Though they approved some big progressive goals—giving workers \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/newsom-budget-governor-dad-california-families-family-leave-diapers-preschool/\">more paid time off\u003c/a> to care for a new baby, boosting government funding for healthcare and childcare—those policies have been whittled down from their original versions, making them more incremental than revolutionary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If voters expected last year’s blue wave to upend policymaking-as-usual in Sacramento, it seems, at least for now, that the old rules still apply. Why? Moderating forces are still at work: swing-district Democrats remain tax-wary, lobbying and campaign money still wield a lot of influence, and virtually no one wants to burn through the state's $21 billion budget surplus or its nearly $16 billion rainy day fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was a lot of talk that with a supermajority and a very progressive governor, things were going to go crazy. But when you're sitting in that spot and looking at what's going on, you have to hold the line,\" said Dana Williamson, a Democratic political consultant who worked closely with former Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's also not as easy as everyone thinks to get a two-thirds vote, even when you have a supermajority.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"left\" citation=\"Holly Mitchell, chair of the Senate budget committee\"]\"All Democrats aren't created equal.\"[/pullquote]Democrats now hold about 75% of the Legislature's seats and most bills need only a simple majority to pass. But some measures—notably, any tax increases—must be approved by two-thirds of both houses. Legislative leaders have historically been strategic about using the supermajority, saving it only for high-priority votes. Even then, getting to two-thirds usually involves a lot of negotiation and heartburn because swing-district Democrats are leery of casting votes that their constituents could see as too liberal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All Democrats aren't created equal,\" said Holly Mitchell, a Los Angeles Democrat and chair of the powerful Senate budget committee. \"We all celebrated having a supermajority in both houses. But we have to recognize that some of those areas where we were able to elect Democrats… are probably more purple than blue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic leaders—spooked by last year's successful \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/nuclear-option-why-politicians-are-warily-watching-the-recall-election-of-sen-josh-newman/\">recall of northern Orange County Democratic Sen. Josh Newman\u003c/a> after he voted to increase the gas tax—have shelved almost all \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-taxes-legislature-newsom-surplus-soda-water-tax/\">this year's proposals\u003c/a> to hike taxes. That nixed some progressive hopes to increase education funding by taxing oil, health programs by taxing soda, violence-prevention by taxing guns and environmental clean-up by taxing water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"left\" citation=\"Mary Creasman of the California League of Conservation Voters\"]\"What's the point of having a supermajority if you don't do the hard and scary thing?\"[/pullquote]Instead, lawmakers and Newsom have agreed to clean up toxic drinking water by siphoning some money designated for projects to combat climate change. That frustrated environmentalists who say a progressive legislature and governor should not raid funding for climate programs but instead find another way to pay for water clean-up—even if it means voting for a new tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's the point of having a supermajority if you don't do the hard and scary thing?\" said Mary Creasman of the California League of Conservation Voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A 'sucker state,' or one failing to deliver on its progressive promises?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Of course, moderation is in the eye of the beholder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Governor Newsom proposed one of the most big-hearted and progressive budgets in memory and did so in a responsible way that builds historic reserves and saves more funding for a rainy day than at any point in our history,\" wrote Nathan Click, a spokesman for the governor. \"And in his first six months in office, the Governor has helped thrust the state to the forefront of the fight for justice and the national conversation—from taking on Big Pharma to putting a moratorium on the death penalty to fast-tracking humanitarian and legal aid for asylum seekers and refugees.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11753589\"]And on the national spectrum, California is still regarded by many as a leftist outlier. Its plan to become the first state to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11753589/california-lawmakers-agree-to-provide-health-benefits-for-some-undocumented-immigrants\">offer health insurance to low-income undocumented immigrants\u003c/a> under age 26 has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ingraham-why-are-we-helping-illegal-immigrants-when-we-cant-help-ourselves\">lambasted\u003c/a> on the right, with Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham calling California a 'sucker state.' The governor’s most recent budget proposal puts the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article230243474.html\">annual cost at $98 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that plan is a scaled-down version of a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB29\">Senate proposal\u003c/a> that would have covered undocumented senior citizens as well, with an added yearly cost of $115 million. And it's a far cry from the governor's campaign vow to push California toward a single-payer healthcare system—with an estimated price tag in the hundreds of billions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hope from this blue wave—more Democrats, more progressive action—that remains to be seen,\" said Stephanie Roberson, a lobbyist with the California Nurses Association, which advocates for a state-funded universal healthcare program and endorsed Newsom last year, spending over $735,000 to help elect him. Earlier this year she said she expected a single-payer bill, but nothing was ever introduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11721672\"]\"There are a lot of issues that you would assume would have passed, so yeah, there are some surprises,\" she said. \"What we should be doing with these supermajorities is using them to our advantage to pass really good reform. Hasn't been exercised yet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Wright of Health Access California, a nonprofit health advocacy group, applauded the governor's \"first steps\" on expanding health care: issuing an executive order to begin creating a way for the state to buy \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/lower-california-prescription-drug-costs/\">prescription drugs in bulk\u003c/a>, including in his budget a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11721672/newsoms-tactic-not-yet-health-care-for-all-but-health-care-for-more\">mandate\u003c/a> that all Californians buy health insurance, and sending a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1.7.19-Letter-to-the-White-House-and-Congress.pdf\">request for a waiver\u003c/a>from the Trump administration to redirect federal funds to a future single-payer program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not going to get to full universal coverage in one year,\" Wright said. \"But he hasn't laid out what his next steps are.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/65985294-1f04-44f1-97b7-2fefce88f88a?src=embed\" title=\"Top donors\" width=\"470\" height=\"1090\" scrolling=\"no\" align=\"right\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California is in the grip of a severe housing crisis, lawmakers rejected several pro-tenant bills, such as one that would have given them more protection from evictions. The lone survivor: a weakened anti-rent-gouging bill that caps annual rent increases at roughly 9%, exempts landlords who own fewer than 10 homes and would expire after three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrast that with New York, where Democratic lawmakers this week announced an agreement on a package of bills to not only strengthen rent control in New York City but allow it to extend statewide—a move that The New York Times said \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/nyregion/landlord-rent-protection-regulation.html\">left big landlords there \"in shock\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor has also thus far \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/activists-want-california-fracking-ban-newsom/\">resisted calls to ban fracking\u003c/a>, despite vows to do so on the campaign trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California progressives have scored a few notable wins. Newsom used his executive power to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/gavin-newsom-halts-executions-california/\">stop all executions \u003c/a>while he’s in office. The Assembly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11738880/measure-limiting-police-use-of-force-advances-in-state-legislature\">passed a bill\u003c/a> to limit when police can justifiably kill and another to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/will-california-crack-down-predatory-lending-pink-slip-loans/\">cap interest rates\u003c/a> on predatory loans targeted at low-income consumers. The budget includes a sales tax exemption for diapers and tampons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even those wins come with asterisks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors are still \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/us/california-death-penalty.html\">seeking the death penalty\u003c/a> in some murder cases because only voters can repeal California's capital punishment law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original version of the police reform measure—proposed by a broad coalition of civil rights groups—didn’t seem to have enough votes to pass. Instead, lawmakers passed a version that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-police-use-of-force-standards-lethal-shootings-legislature/\">reflects a compromise with law enforcement\u003c/a>, causing Black Lives Matter to remove its support. The American Civil Liberties Union remains a key supporter and the group spent heavily lobbying the statehouse—nearly $1.2 million in the first three months of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11751060\"]Meanwhile, the bill to prohibit triple-digit interest rates on some consumer loans faces an uphill climb in the Senate, where it will go before its first committee next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those who dug into the details of the governor's budget found it was often less than it seemed: His cancellation of the menstrual product tax, for example, would expire in two years. When a Newsom aide told a panel of lawmakers that a future decision to extend the tax break for longer would depend on the state's economic condition at that time, Democratic Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia shot back:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our uteruses shouldn't be used to balance our budget down the road.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relatively restrained pace of change has come as a pleasant surprise to many political moderates and business interests. Of the 31 bills stamped with the California Chamber of Commerce's 'job killer' label—a moniker for the policies it lobbies most strongly against— lawmakers have quashed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary/most-job-killer-bills-already-dead/\">all but five.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chamber president Allan Zaremberg attributes his organization's high success rate in a Democratic-dominated Legislature to a combination of \"good lobbying and their bad ideas.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good lobbying is expensive. The Chamber is among the biggest spenders on lobbying in Sacramento—nearly $720,000 in the year's first quarter. The Chamber joined major tech firms in lobbying against two bills that would have expanded consumer protection under a landmark data privacy measure California passed in 2018. Lawmakers quietly shelved both of them.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/857760e7-24a6-4683-9f85-7e665cd2c899?src=embed\" title=\"Lobby spending 2019\" width=\"570\" height=\"830\" align=\"right\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry—a political bogeyman for many progressives and Sacramento’s most lavish lobbying spender—is so far faring pretty well in the Democratic-controlled statehouse. Lawmakers have already killed nearly half the bills the Western States Petroleum Association lobbied on this year. That includes \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB332\">a bill\u003c/a> to increase reuse of treated wastewater by restricting how much can be released into the ocean, and a proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB345\">prohibit\u003c/a> new oil and gas operations within 2,500 feet of homes, schools, playgrounds and healthcare facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry lobbying helped kill several bills meant to promote public health by limiting vaping and soda consumption. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/soda-taxes-fizzling-california-capitol-legislature/\">Soda companies more than tripled their spending on lobbying\u003c/a> in Sacramento during the first three months of the year. They convinced lawmakers to jettison four of five measures backed by doctors, dentists and public health advocates that sought to limit how much sugar Californians drink. Lawmakers also \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/flavored-tobacco-ban-floundering-california-legislature-vaping-electronic-cigarettes/\">snuffed out bills meant to curb teen use of e-cigarettes\u003c/a> by banning the sale of products with enticing flavors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Association of Realtors, who typically oppose restrictions on property owners, spent over $400,000 on lobbying and nearly $1 million (more than any other group) on campaign spending this year so far. That could help explain why all but one of the state's high-profile pro-renter bills have died already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effect of all that money may be put to the test next week as the Senate takes up a bill at the center of one of the year's \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/companies-beg-for-relief-from-pro-labor-gig-worker-ruling/\">biggest battles between organized labor and business interests\u003c/a>. The Assembly has passed the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB5\">proposal\u003c/a>, which would force gig-economy companies such as Uber and Lyft to treat their contractors as employees, guaranteeing them minimum wage and other basic worker protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big test of Newsom’s progressive agenda remains: whether he'll be able to increase payments to low-income Californians by changing the state tax code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has proposed increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit—an anti-poverty program that has historically garnered bipartisan praise—by bringing California's tax code in line with changes Republicans enacted to the federal code in 2017, such as placing new limits on the losses, workplace-related expenses and interest payments that businesses have traditionally used to lower their tax bills. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Democrats now hold about 75% of the Legislature's seats and most bills need only a simple majority to pass. But some measures—notably, any tax increases—must be approved by two-thirds of both houses. Legislative leaders have historically been strategic about using the supermajority, saving it only for high-priority votes. Even then, getting to two-thirds usually involves a lot of negotiation and heartburn because swing-district Democrats are leery of casting votes that their constituents could see as too liberal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All Democrats aren't created equal,\" said Holly Mitchell, a Los Angeles Democrat and chair of the powerful Senate budget committee. \"We all celebrated having a supermajority in both houses. But we have to recognize that some of those areas where we were able to elect Democrats… are probably more purple than blue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic leaders—spooked by last year's successful \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/nuclear-option-why-politicians-are-warily-watching-the-recall-election-of-sen-josh-newman/\">recall of northern Orange County Democratic Sen. Josh Newman\u003c/a> after he voted to increase the gas tax—have shelved almost all \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-taxes-legislature-newsom-surplus-soda-water-tax/\">this year's proposals\u003c/a> to hike taxes. That nixed some progressive hopes to increase education funding by taxing oil, health programs by taxing soda, violence-prevention by taxing guns and environmental clean-up by taxing water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Of the 31 bills stamped with the California Chamber of Commerce's 'job killer' label—a moniker for the policies it lobbies most strongly against— lawmakers have quashed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary/most-job-killer-bills-already-dead/\">all but five.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chamber president Allan Zaremberg attributes his organization's high success rate in a Democratic-dominated Legislature to a combination of \"good lobbying and their bad ideas.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good lobbying is expensive. The Chamber is among the biggest spenders on lobbying in Sacramento—nearly $720,000 in the year's first quarter. The Chamber joined major tech firms in lobbying against two bills that would have expanded consumer protection under a landmark data privacy measure California passed in 2018. Lawmakers quietly shelved both of them.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/857760e7-24a6-4683-9f85-7e665cd2c899?src=embed\" title=\"Lobby spending 2019\" width=\"570\" height=\"830\" align=\"right\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry—a political bogeyman for many progressives and Sacramento’s most lavish lobbying spender—is so far faring pretty well in the Democratic-controlled statehouse. Lawmakers have already killed nearly half the bills the Western States Petroleum Association lobbied on this year. That includes \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB332\">a bill\u003c/a> to increase reuse of treated wastewater by restricting how much can be released into the ocean, and a proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB345\">prohibit\u003c/a> new oil and gas operations within 2,500 feet of homes, schools, playgrounds and healthcare facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry lobbying helped kill several bills meant to promote public health by limiting vaping and soda consumption. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/soda-taxes-fizzling-california-capitol-legislature/\">Soda companies more than tripled their spending on lobbying\u003c/a> in Sacramento during the first three months of the year. They convinced lawmakers to jettison four of five measures backed by doctors, dentists and public health advocates that sought to limit how much sugar Californians drink. Lawmakers also \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/flavored-tobacco-ban-floundering-california-legislature-vaping-electronic-cigarettes/\">snuffed out bills meant to curb teen use of e-cigarettes\u003c/a> by banning the sale of products with enticing flavors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Association of Realtors, who typically oppose restrictions on property owners, spent over $400,000 on lobbying and nearly $1 million (more than any other group) on campaign spending this year so far. That could help explain why all but one of the state's high-profile pro-renter bills have died already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effect of all that money may be put to the test next week as the Senate takes up a bill at the center of one of the year's \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/companies-beg-for-relief-from-pro-labor-gig-worker-ruling/\">biggest battles between organized labor and business interests\u003c/a>. The Assembly has passed the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB5\">proposal\u003c/a>, which would force gig-economy companies such as Uber and Lyft to treat their contractors as employees, guaranteeing them minimum wage and other basic worker protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big test of Newsom’s progressive agenda remains: whether he'll be able to increase payments to low-income Californians by changing the state tax code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has proposed increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit—an anti-poverty program that has historically garnered bipartisan praise—by bringing California's tax code in line with changes Republicans enacted to the federal code in 2017, such as placing new limits on the losses, workplace-related expenses and interest payments that businesses have traditionally used to lower their tax bills. The governor's office estimates that nixing those deductions would raise an extra $1.7 billion from wealthier Californians and businesses and redirect it to poor people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That sounds like the kind of thing you would expect to pass in a Legislature dominated by Democratic politics,\" said Chris Hoene, president of the California Budget and Policy Center, who supports the governor’s proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Assembly Democrats—fearful of potential political attacks—have yet to come on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "California Passed a $215 Billion Budget. Here’s What’s Between the Lines",
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"content": "\u003cp>Despite speculation about bold moves — in a far left direction, even for this blue state — Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative Democrats actually landed a \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">budget\u003c/a> Thursday that’s surgical about new taxing while still keeping promises to help poor Californians and working families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11754468,news_11717355\" label=\"More on the Budget\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the $214.8 billion spending plan, the state inched closer to universal health coverage, expanding Medi-Cal to all low-income young adults regardless of immigration status. State lawmakers also charted a course to increase tax credits to the working poor and boost subsidies to middle-income Californians to buy health coverage. There were significant investments in early education and housing, also, while a portion of the surplus was diverted to pay down pension liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Democrats began the year with a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-taxes-legislature-newsom-surplus-soda-water-tax/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surplus of ideas for taxing Californians\u003c/a>, only a few strategic levies survived the negotiation process, specifically a fine on individuals who don’t have health insurance under a state mandate. There’s even a little tax relief: Parents, for instance, will get a temporary tax exemption on diapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One hitch? The devil is in the details, some which have yet to be worked out. Though Democrats met their deadline for a balanced spending plan, most of the underlying policy to enact the budget wasn’t taken up — and may not be for weeks. Call it a learning curve: This was the new governor’s first time negotiating with seasoned legislative leaders who know how to count votes. Look for more action in coming trailer bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about California’s new budget:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yes to health care for undocumented young adults. Not yet on health care for all.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature agreed to the governor’s plan to expand Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program for low-income people, to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-poised-to-go-further-insuring-the-undocumented-immigrants/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">young adults ages 19-25\u003c/a>. It’s a step toward offering free health care to all undocumented adults since the state already makes Medi-Cal available to children regardless of immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11753589,news_11721672\"]The Senate had proposed going further by offering Medi-Cal to undocumented seniors 65 and older. However, none of the leaders backed offering health care to all low-income immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state expects an estimated 90,000 young adults could gain coverage when the benefit begins next year. Already, 76,000 have registered for a limited version of Medi-Cal that covers emergency services and prenatal care available to low-income people regardless of immigration status. The price tag for this expansion? About \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2019-20/pdf/Revised/BudgetSummary/HealthandHumanServices.pdf#page=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$98 million a year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth noting the state also affirmed its commitment to restoring \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-eyeglasses-medi-cal-restoring-benefitsr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">optional Medi-Cal benefits\u003c/a>. During the recession, coverage for audiology, optical, podiatry, speech therapy and incontinence creams had been taken away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Obamacare lives: A $695 state mandate to carry health coverage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting next year, California will join New Jersey, Vermont and the District of Columbia in requiring residents carry health coverage or face a $695 state penalty — a fine that will go up each year with inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-ideas-counteract-obamacare-mandate-repeal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">individual mandate\u003c/a> aims to replace the federal one that Republicans repealed in their effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. The administration says California needs to act because without a mandate, the number of Californians without coverage — 10.4% in 2016 — will go back up. Separately, a study conducted by the University of California estimated the uninsurance rate will rise to \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2018/CA-Coverage-Gains-To-Erode-Without-Further-State-Action.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">12.9% by 2023\u003c/a>, or 4.4 million people, without state action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money raised from the penalties, about $1 billion over three years, will be used to give bigger subsidies to those who purchase private insurance through the state’s health coverage exchange, Covered California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and lawmakers hope to expand assistance to 190,000 middle-income Californians making between $48,000 to $72,000 a year, according to Health Access California, a health advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fear of recall = Not many new taxes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget includes a plan to impose a fee — that still needs to be voted on — of no more than \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">80 cents a month\u003c/a> on each telephone line to help digitize the state’s 911 system, which is still analog. The next generation system would improve call delivery, better location data and incoming text capability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11754744\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11754744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/atkins-2-e1560456025570-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins says she would have liked to use discretionary funds rather than greenhouse gas reduction funds to provide clean water in the Central Valley but called it a compromise.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/atkins-2-e1560456025570-800x558.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/atkins-2-e1560456025570-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/atkins-2-e1560456025570-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/atkins-2-e1560456025570-1200x836.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/atkins-2-e1560456025570.jpg 1257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins says she would have liked to use discretionary funds rather than greenhouse gas reduction funds to provide clean water in the Central Valley but called it a compromise. \u003ccite>(Judy Lin/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other than that and the health care mandate, lawmakers opted against most of the new taxes proposed early in the session. In fact, California parents and women will get a sales tax exemption on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/newsom-budget-governor-dad-california-families-family-leave-diapers-preschool/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diapers and menstrual products\u003c/a> (though only for two years).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably rejected, given the state’s current $21.5 billion surplus, was Newsom’s push for a 95-cent tax on most residential water bills to fund clean drinking water initiatives in the Central Valley. Instead, the Legislature worked out a deal to clean up toxic water by diverting money generated from big polluters under the state’s cap and trade program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmental groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/83ce9d94e85744a199bc45ecfb295a25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questioned\u003c/a> using clean air money to pay for drinking water, but supporters reasoned that water is being contaminated with arsenic and other toxic chemicals from the heavy use of fertilizers so it makes sense to draw the $100 million for cleanup from the agriculture industry’s portion of the greenhouse gas fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One issue that won’t be resolved this week is whether California will conform its tax code to match federal changes made by Republicans in 2017. Newsom is relying on the projected $1.7 billion increase in net revenue from that to expand the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/newsletters/more-bad-homelessness-news-why-college-is-so-pricey-and-special-election-day/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earned income tax credit\u003c/a>, the centerpiece of his anti-poverty agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Democrats in swing districts are skittish about limiting deductions and losses that can be claimed by some businesses. They know the fate of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary/two-victims-of-a-blood-sport-politics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former Sen. Josh Newman\u003c/a>, who was recalled from his Orange County seat after voting to raise California’s gas tax. Tax conformity requires a two-thirds vote in the Legislature to pass, so the pressure is on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom’s best Jerry Brown: Paying debt and rainy day saving\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers embraced the governor’s proposal to use some of the surplus to make extra pension payments, a step Newsom says is necessary to tame the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/newsom-wants-extra-pension-payments-as-retirement-liability-tops-256b/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$256 billion retirement liability for state workers and teachers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature approved supplemental payments of $3 billion to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and $1.1 billion to the California State Teachers’ Retirement System for the state’s portion of unfunded liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To relieve school districts across the state, the Legislature will contribute a total of $3.15 billion toward paying down their liabilities and reducing their payroll contribution rates. One difference is where it will go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, Newsom had all the extra payments going to the teachers pension fund — a reaction, in part, to teachers strikes that erupted as he took office. Now a portion of that money will be doled out to CalPERS. The change was made in recognition that while teachers are members of CalSTRS, many other school employees from janitors to bus drivers belong in the state’s other public employee pension fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides paying down California’s “wall of debt,” as former Gov. Jerry Brown called it, the state is shoring up for a downturn — or \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/jerry-brown-gavin-newsom-political-lexicon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Newsom-speak\u003c/a>, “building budget resiliency.” The new budget carries a roughly $20 billion reserve from several rainy day funds. This amount, while hefty, would be easily \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-recession-trump-newsom-washington-surplus-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wiped away in a downturn\u003c/a>. According to the Legislative Analyst’s Office, the state would need as much as $40 billion to cover the budget in a moderate recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big spending on housing, but fight over where it goes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With new commitments topping $2 billion, the budget represents the most important action the governor has taken so far on housing and homelessness. The lion’s share will target the state’s homeless population, including $650 million in grants for cities and counties to build and maintain emergency shelters and $100 million for wrap-around care for the state’s most vulnerable residents. Another $500 million will go to quintuple the size of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-state-budget-gavin-newsom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state’s affordable housing financing fund\u003c/a>, plus hundreds of millions earmarked for cities to update their often outdated housing plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11754785\"]While lawmakers and Newsom have agreed to cut big checks, it’s not clear who’ll get the money and with what strings attached. Big city mayors and lawmakers want homelessness grants \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-budget-homeless-funding-20190612-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">directed towards the state’s largest 13 cities\u003c/a>, while Newsom wants to spread out the money to include counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also wants to deny transportation funds to cities not building enough housing. As of Thursday, lawmakers were still negotiating a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-housing-plan-201903011-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scaled-back version of the proposal\u003c/a>. Another Newsom proposal that speeds construction of homeless shelters by sidestepping environmental laws also remains unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lending a hand to working families\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expanding California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/individuals/faq/net/900.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earned income tax credit\u003c/a> has quickly become one of Newsom’s signature anti-poverty programs because it gives a cost-of-living refund to low-income working families. Lawmakers are poised to triple the program from $400 million to $1.2 billion to provide a $1,000 refund for families with children under 6 and expand income eligibility from $24,950 to $30,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11754745\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11754745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-budget-vote-600x407.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Assemblyman Phil Ting, who chairs the Assembly budget committee, calls California’s new budget fiscally responsible while helping working families.\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-budget-vote-600x407.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-budget-vote-600x407-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Assemblyman Phil Ting, who chairs the Assembly budget committee, calls California’s new budget fiscally responsible while helping working families. \u003ccite>(Judy Lin/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anti-poverty advocates had wanted Newsom to include undocumented workers who file with individual taxpayer identification numbers instead of Social Security numbers. That proposal did not make the final version of the budget. Still, the administration estimates the current expansion will increase the number of beneficiaries from 2 million to 3 million households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also will make it easier for low-income families with children to qualify for assistance, increasing the CalWORKs asset limit to $10,000 and the motor vehicle exemption to $25,000 — changes that will allow people to save and hang onto cars that can get them to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And parents of all incomes will get a longer paid family leave to care for new babies — 8 weeks, up from the current 6 weeks, starting in July of next year. The goal will be to boost the benefit to 90% of most wages, up from the current maximum of 70%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The K-14 kids did all right\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As required by law, the lion’s share of the budget goes to public schools, with nearly $102 billion in state money to be pumped into California classrooms and community colleges, plus another $389 million in a special reserve fund for schools. Though the figure is an all-time high, California is still viewed as lagging in per pupil spending, in part because of the high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are also demanding more stringent oversight of charter schools, which can operate like private schools, tend to be non-union and have proliferated in big cities such as Oakland and Los Angeles. Newsom proposed prohibiting charter schools from blocking or disenrolling special education students who require more support for disabilities. Lawmakers readily embraced that change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget includes $300 million to build more \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/gavin-newsom-early-childhood-kindergarten-bathrooms/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kindergarten classrooms\u003c/a> in an effort to boost full-day kindergarten programs. Newsom had initially proposed $750 million but that was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/5-takeaways-newsom-may-revise-budget-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduced\u003c/a> after a study found most part-day kindergarten programs are in wealthier communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/newsletters/after-school-programs-measles-foxs-take-on-the-budget-and-castration/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">After-school programs\u003c/a> will get a $50 million boost to the $600 million or so the state is currently spending. The money will help cover the cost of minimum wage increases enacted during Brown’s tenure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So did the little ones\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/can-california-afford-newsom-education-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emphasizing early education\u003c/a>, Newsom and lawmakers agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/early-childhood-universal-preschool-newsom-mccarty/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expand day care and preschool\u003c/a> slots by the thousands while investing in training for child care providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom gets $50 million in seed money to start \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/child-college-savings-accounts-california-san-francisco-kindergartners-newsom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">child savings accounts\u003c/a> for college and post-secondary education. He initially asked that all of it go toward pilot projects with First 5 California and local governments but the Legislature is designating $25 million. The other $25 million will create a state program with the Scholarshare program in the Treasurer’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More free college and help for student parents\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and legislators delivered on a $45 million promise to fund a second year of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-free-community-college-cost/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tuition-free community college\u003c/a> for first-time, full-time students at campuses participating in the state’s College Promise program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other big winners include students with children, who will be eligible to receive grants of up to $6,000 to help cover their families’ living expenses. The budget boosts by about 15,000 the number of competitive Cal Grants — a significant jump, but far less than the 400,000 qualified students who applied for the state scholarships last year and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-cost-of-college-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">didn’t receive them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California and California State University will receive money to increase enrollment, and waive tuition during the summer to help low-income students graduate faster. Lawmakers also set aside funds for campuses to combat hunger and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/homeless-college-students-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homelessness\u003c/a>, strengthen veterans resource centers, and provide more \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/a-push-for-mental-health-care-at-colleges-depression-and-anxiety-really-eat-up-our-kids/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mental health counseling\u003c/a>. A center at the University of California San Francisco is getting a $3.5 million earmark for \u003ca href=\"http://dyslexia.yale.edu/story/gavin-newsom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dyslexia\u003c/a> screening and early intervention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backers of the state’s controversial new \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/online-community-college-california-heather-hiles-ceo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online community college\u003c/a> fended off an effort to slash the college’s funding, clearing the way to enroll its first class this fall. And CSU will get $4 million to study five possible locations for a new campus: \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/how-a-cal-state-campus-would-help-stockton-comeback/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stockton\u003c/a>, Chula Vista, San Mateo, Concord and Palm Desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lots for police training, a little for police records\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting the Legislature’s focus this year on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/force-of-law-podcast-episode-one-cycles/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reducing police shootings\u003c/a>, the budget includes $20 million to train police officers on de-escalation tactics and how and when to use force. Outside the budget, bills to set a tougher standard for police to use deadly force and require more officer training are advancing through the Legislature, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-police-use-of-force-standards-lethal-shootings-legislature/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reflecting a compromise\u003c/a> between civil rights advocates and law enforcement groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11738880\"]Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office will get $155,000 to implement the new state law he’d been resisting: making law enforcement misconduct records public. Becerra will also have to report to the Legislature on how many requests his office processes and how much time is spent on that. A judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/17/court-rules-against-attorney-general-state-must-disclose-police-records/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruled in May\u003c/a> that Becerra must produce the records; previously he had said he would not release them until the courts clarified whether he had to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Powering down to cope with wildfires\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/what-happens-next-wildfire-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beefing up the state’s firefighting capability\u003c/a> and disaster preparedness, California will add powering down to its to-do list for coping with climate change-driven \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/californias-worsening-wildfires-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfires\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget doles out $75 million to state and local agencies whenever investor-owned utilities decide to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/what-happens-next-wildfire-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shut off electricity\u003c/a> during red flag weather warnings. One note: The Assembly added language to track how the money is used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters reporters Matt Levin, Felicia Mello and Laurel Rosenhall contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CALmatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Despite speculation about bold moves — in a far left direction, even for this blue state — Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative Democrats actually landed a \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">budget\u003c/a> Thursday that’s surgical about new taxing while still keeping promises to help poor Californians and working families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the $214.8 billion spending plan, the state inched closer to universal health coverage, expanding Medi-Cal to all low-income young adults regardless of immigration status. State lawmakers also charted a course to increase tax credits to the working poor and boost subsidies to middle-income Californians to buy health coverage. There were significant investments in early education and housing, also, while a portion of the surplus was diverted to pay down pension liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Democrats began the year with a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-taxes-legislature-newsom-surplus-soda-water-tax/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surplus of ideas for taxing Californians\u003c/a>, only a few strategic levies survived the negotiation process, specifically a fine on individuals who don’t have health insurance under a state mandate. There’s even a little tax relief: Parents, for instance, will get a temporary tax exemption on diapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One hitch? The devil is in the details, some which have yet to be worked out. Though Democrats met their deadline for a balanced spending plan, most of the underlying policy to enact the budget wasn’t taken up — and may not be for weeks. Call it a learning curve: This was the new governor’s first time negotiating with seasoned legislative leaders who know how to count votes. Look for more action in coming trailer bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you need to know about California’s new budget:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yes to health care for undocumented young adults. Not yet on health care for all.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature agreed to the governor’s plan to expand Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program for low-income people, to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-poised-to-go-further-insuring-the-undocumented-immigrants/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">young adults ages 19-25\u003c/a>. It’s a step toward offering free health care to all undocumented adults since the state already makes Medi-Cal available to children regardless of immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Senate had proposed going further by offering Medi-Cal to undocumented seniors 65 and older. However, none of the leaders backed offering health care to all low-income immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state expects an estimated 90,000 young adults could gain coverage when the benefit begins next year. Already, 76,000 have registered for a limited version of Medi-Cal that covers emergency services and prenatal care available to low-income people regardless of immigration status. The price tag for this expansion? About \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2019-20/pdf/Revised/BudgetSummary/HealthandHumanServices.pdf#page=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$98 million a year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth noting the state also affirmed its commitment to restoring \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-eyeglasses-medi-cal-restoring-benefitsr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">optional Medi-Cal benefits\u003c/a>. During the recession, coverage for audiology, optical, podiatry, speech therapy and incontinence creams had been taken away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Obamacare lives: A $695 state mandate to carry health coverage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting next year, California will join New Jersey, Vermont and the District of Columbia in requiring residents carry health coverage or face a $695 state penalty — a fine that will go up each year with inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-ideas-counteract-obamacare-mandate-repeal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">individual mandate\u003c/a> aims to replace the federal one that Republicans repealed in their effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. The administration says California needs to act because without a mandate, the number of Californians without coverage — 10.4% in 2016 — will go back up. Separately, a study conducted by the University of California estimated the uninsurance rate will rise to \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2018/CA-Coverage-Gains-To-Erode-Without-Further-State-Action.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">12.9% by 2023\u003c/a>, or 4.4 million people, without state action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money raised from the penalties, about $1 billion over three years, will be used to give bigger subsidies to those who purchase private insurance through the state’s health coverage exchange, Covered California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and lawmakers hope to expand assistance to 190,000 middle-income Californians making between $48,000 to $72,000 a year, according to Health Access California, a health advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fear of recall = Not many new taxes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget includes a plan to impose a fee — that still needs to be voted on — of no more than \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">80 cents a month\u003c/a> on each telephone line to help digitize the state’s 911 system, which is still analog. The next generation system would improve call delivery, better location data and incoming text capability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11754744\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11754744\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/atkins-2-e1560456025570-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins says she would have liked to use discretionary funds rather than greenhouse gas reduction funds to provide clean water in the Central Valley but called it a compromise.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/atkins-2-e1560456025570-800x558.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/atkins-2-e1560456025570-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/atkins-2-e1560456025570-1020x711.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/atkins-2-e1560456025570-1200x836.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/atkins-2-e1560456025570.jpg 1257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins says she would have liked to use discretionary funds rather than greenhouse gas reduction funds to provide clean water in the Central Valley but called it a compromise. \u003ccite>(Judy Lin/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other than that and the health care mandate, lawmakers opted against most of the new taxes proposed early in the session. In fact, California parents and women will get a sales tax exemption on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/newsom-budget-governor-dad-california-families-family-leave-diapers-preschool/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diapers and menstrual products\u003c/a> (though only for two years).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably rejected, given the state’s current $21.5 billion surplus, was Newsom’s push for a 95-cent tax on most residential water bills to fund clean drinking water initiatives in the Central Valley. Instead, the Legislature worked out a deal to clean up toxic water by diverting money generated from big polluters under the state’s cap and trade program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmental groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/83ce9d94e85744a199bc45ecfb295a25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questioned\u003c/a> using clean air money to pay for drinking water, but supporters reasoned that water is being contaminated with arsenic and other toxic chemicals from the heavy use of fertilizers so it makes sense to draw the $100 million for cleanup from the agriculture industry’s portion of the greenhouse gas fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One issue that won’t be resolved this week is whether California will conform its tax code to match federal changes made by Republicans in 2017. Newsom is relying on the projected $1.7 billion increase in net revenue from that to expand the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/newsletters/more-bad-homelessness-news-why-college-is-so-pricey-and-special-election-day/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earned income tax credit\u003c/a>, the centerpiece of his anti-poverty agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Democrats in swing districts are skittish about limiting deductions and losses that can be claimed by some businesses. They know the fate of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary/two-victims-of-a-blood-sport-politics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former Sen. Josh Newman\u003c/a>, who was recalled from his Orange County seat after voting to raise California’s gas tax. Tax conformity requires a two-thirds vote in the Legislature to pass, so the pressure is on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsom’s best Jerry Brown: Paying debt and rainy day saving\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers embraced the governor’s proposal to use some of the surplus to make extra pension payments, a step Newsom says is necessary to tame the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/newsom-wants-extra-pension-payments-as-retirement-liability-tops-256b/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$256 billion retirement liability for state workers and teachers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature approved supplemental payments of $3 billion to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and $1.1 billion to the California State Teachers’ Retirement System for the state’s portion of unfunded liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To relieve school districts across the state, the Legislature will contribute a total of $3.15 billion toward paying down their liabilities and reducing their payroll contribution rates. One difference is where it will go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, Newsom had all the extra payments going to the teachers pension fund — a reaction, in part, to teachers strikes that erupted as he took office. Now a portion of that money will be doled out to CalPERS. The change was made in recognition that while teachers are members of CalSTRS, many other school employees from janitors to bus drivers belong in the state’s other public employee pension fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides paying down California’s “wall of debt,” as former Gov. Jerry Brown called it, the state is shoring up for a downturn — or \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/jerry-brown-gavin-newsom-political-lexicon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Newsom-speak\u003c/a>, “building budget resiliency.” The new budget carries a roughly $20 billion reserve from several rainy day funds. This amount, while hefty, would be easily \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-recession-trump-newsom-washington-surplus-economy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wiped away in a downturn\u003c/a>. According to the Legislative Analyst’s Office, the state would need as much as $40 billion to cover the budget in a moderate recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big spending on housing, but fight over where it goes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With new commitments topping $2 billion, the budget represents the most important action the governor has taken so far on housing and homelessness. The lion’s share will target the state’s homeless population, including $650 million in grants for cities and counties to build and maintain emergency shelters and $100 million for wrap-around care for the state’s most vulnerable residents. Another $500 million will go to quintuple the size of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-state-budget-gavin-newsom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state’s affordable housing financing fund\u003c/a>, plus hundreds of millions earmarked for cities to update their often outdated housing plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While lawmakers and Newsom have agreed to cut big checks, it’s not clear who’ll get the money and with what strings attached. Big city mayors and lawmakers want homelessness grants \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-budget-homeless-funding-20190612-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">directed towards the state’s largest 13 cities\u003c/a>, while Newsom wants to spread out the money to include counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also wants to deny transportation funds to cities not building enough housing. As of Thursday, lawmakers were still negotiating a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-housing-plan-201903011-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scaled-back version of the proposal\u003c/a>. Another Newsom proposal that speeds construction of homeless shelters by sidestepping environmental laws also remains unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lending a hand to working families\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expanding California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/individuals/faq/net/900.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earned income tax credit\u003c/a> has quickly become one of Newsom’s signature anti-poverty programs because it gives a cost-of-living refund to low-income working families. Lawmakers are poised to triple the program from $400 million to $1.2 billion to provide a $1,000 refund for families with children under 6 and expand income eligibility from $24,950 to $30,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11754745\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11754745\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-budget-vote-600x407.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Assemblyman Phil Ting, who chairs the Assembly budget committee, calls California’s new budget fiscally responsible while helping working families.\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-budget-vote-600x407.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/2019-budget-vote-600x407-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Assemblyman Phil Ting, who chairs the Assembly budget committee, calls California’s new budget fiscally responsible while helping working families. \u003ccite>(Judy Lin/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anti-poverty advocates had wanted Newsom to include undocumented workers who file with individual taxpayer identification numbers instead of Social Security numbers. That proposal did not make the final version of the budget. Still, the administration estimates the current expansion will increase the number of beneficiaries from 2 million to 3 million households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also will make it easier for low-income families with children to qualify for assistance, increasing the CalWORKs asset limit to $10,000 and the motor vehicle exemption to $25,000 — changes that will allow people to save and hang onto cars that can get them to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And parents of all incomes will get a longer paid family leave to care for new babies — 8 weeks, up from the current 6 weeks, starting in July of next year. The goal will be to boost the benefit to 90% of most wages, up from the current maximum of 70%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The K-14 kids did all right\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As required by law, the lion’s share of the budget goes to public schools, with nearly $102 billion in state money to be pumped into California classrooms and community colleges, plus another $389 million in a special reserve fund for schools. Though the figure is an all-time high, California is still viewed as lagging in per pupil spending, in part because of the high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are also demanding more stringent oversight of charter schools, which can operate like private schools, tend to be non-union and have proliferated in big cities such as Oakland and Los Angeles. Newsom proposed prohibiting charter schools from blocking or disenrolling special education students who require more support for disabilities. Lawmakers readily embraced that change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget includes $300 million to build more \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/gavin-newsom-early-childhood-kindergarten-bathrooms/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kindergarten classrooms\u003c/a> in an effort to boost full-day kindergarten programs. Newsom had initially proposed $750 million but that was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/5-takeaways-newsom-may-revise-budget-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduced\u003c/a> after a study found most part-day kindergarten programs are in wealthier communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/newsletters/after-school-programs-measles-foxs-take-on-the-budget-and-castration/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">After-school programs\u003c/a> will get a $50 million boost to the $600 million or so the state is currently spending. The money will help cover the cost of minimum wage increases enacted during Brown’s tenure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So did the little ones\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/can-california-afford-newsom-education-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emphasizing early education\u003c/a>, Newsom and lawmakers agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/early-childhood-universal-preschool-newsom-mccarty/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expand day care and preschool\u003c/a> slots by the thousands while investing in training for child care providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom gets $50 million in seed money to start \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/child-college-savings-accounts-california-san-francisco-kindergartners-newsom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">child savings accounts\u003c/a> for college and post-secondary education. He initially asked that all of it go toward pilot projects with First 5 California and local governments but the Legislature is designating $25 million. The other $25 million will create a state program with the Scholarshare program in the Treasurer’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More free college and help for student parents\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and legislators delivered on a $45 million promise to fund a second year of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-free-community-college-cost/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tuition-free community college\u003c/a> for first-time, full-time students at campuses participating in the state’s College Promise program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other big winners include students with children, who will be eligible to receive grants of up to $6,000 to help cover their families’ living expenses. 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And from the Legislature, so far, they’re getting inaction more than action.’[/pullquote]But the odds of the Legislature meeting that demand this year are virtually non-existent. A bill by to do so by San Francisco’s Sen. Scott Weiner was quietly shelved in the Assembly appropriations committee in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll found similar-sized majorities of Californians want the state to get even tougher: They favor withholding from cities and counties new state transportation dollars raised from a gas tax increase, unless those local governments approve a certain amount of new housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom included that idea in his budget proposal, but so far it’s received a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11729288/legislators-push-back-against-newsom-housing-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chilly reception\u003c/a> from other state lawmakers as well as local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753233\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11753233\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/housing-poll-GRAPHIC--800x1505.jpg\" alt=\"Numbers may not add up to 100 due to rounding. 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But for decades, the state has failed to produce enough housing to meet demand, which many blame on local obstructionism. As housing costs reach crisis levels, that guiding principle of “local control” seems to be falling out of favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The League of California Cities, which argues that locally elected officials are still best positioned to make land use decisions for their communities, doesn’t seem worried about the poll result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voters overwhelmingly trust and want local elected officials making important decisions about the type and location of housing in their communities,” said Carolyn Coleman, the League’s executive director, in a statement. “Furthermore, voters have told us they want transportation funds dedicated to cities to fixing local roads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups that want the state to take a stronger hand to boost building saw today’s poll as proof that voters are on their side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]‘57% of likely voters favor a policy that would force local governments to allow denser development near mass transit and job centers’[/pullquote]Californians “understand that there is a housing shortage, and they understand that the solution to a housing shortage is to build more homes,” said Matthew Lewis, a spokesperson for California YIMBY (the pro-development “Yes In My Backyard” group). “At some point, someone is going to have to (ask) the question: Is it our political leaders who are wrong about the housing crisis or is it the majority of Californians?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One telling data point in the poll may help explain the disconnect. Asked the question “Does the cost of your housing place a financial strain on you and your family today,” 52% of adults said yes. But when the institute included only likely voters, that number dropped to 45%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll found a lack of support for loosening the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/weakling-or-bully-ceqa-environmental-law-california-development-battles/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Environmental Quality Act\u003c/a>, the environmental law that applies to the construction of new buildings and infrastructure, as a way to address the housing shortage. Though every major candidate for governor in 2018 supported at least tinkering with the law, only 39% of likely voters and 47% of adults are on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='affordable-housing' label='Related Coverage']In non-housing related news, the survey reported that two-thirds of Democrats in California believe Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. That’s on par with how Democrats across the country feel (60% told a Harvard CAPS / Harris poll that not only should proceedings begin, but that Trump should be removed from office). But it does put them at odds with other California voters. 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