Campaign / Budget Reform

The provisions in SB 52 will help ensure that the public is more aware of what and who is influencing California’s elections.

Proposition 32 is funded by billionaires to tilt the political playing field in their favor by exempting super PACs from the campaign contribution rules it would place on working people and labor unions.

Proposition 30 would provide $8.5 billion a year in funding to public schools, public colleges and universities and public safety programs. California’s public schools and colleges have been devastated by years of cuts. The result is bigger class sizes, and shorter school years.

Highlights of the proposed state budget that begins July 1. Lawmakers approved the measures and Governor Brown has 12 days to act after receiving the bills.

After Gov. Brown and legislative leaders agreed to increase education funding, local districts are eager to expand programs for the first time since budget cuts hit schools in 2009.

A reform measure that would end a lucrative tax break for corporations and wealthy investors has stalled in the state legislature.