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.

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

Gov. Brown proposed a revised budget that would send an extra $2.9 billion to schools this year, including $1 billion in funding to help districts implement more rigorous academic standards.

State coffers contain about $4.5 billion more than expected in personal income tax payments. Business taxes have also rebounded, signaling an economic recovery.