Brown, lawmakers reach $122 billion budget deal
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders reached a budget deal Thursday that gives Democratic lawmakers a long-sought repeal of a controversial limit on welfare benefits and increases the number of subsidized child care slots, while maintaining the governor’s call for putting $2 billion into the state’s rainy-day fund, administration sources said.
The deal for the 2016-17 fiscal year puts aside $400 million for affordable housing sought by Democrats once lawmakers agree to language Brown wants to ease building requirements. Brown wants to streamline the review process for housing proposals that meet a city’s zoning requirements, but the legislation has been opposed by groups and unions that say it sidesteps the state’s environmental laws.
Administration sources said cementing the language will be a top priority once the budget is “put to bed.”
The state Legislature still has to sign off on the deal by June 15, an easier feat than in years past given that Democrats control both houses. Then the deal must be signed by Brown.
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and us voters who put him there.
