The Governor's signature came just hours before a midnight deadline to sign the main budget bill Democratic lawmakers sent him earlier this month.
It came with little fanfare ….and his office did not release
any details about his line-item vetoes.
The spending plan includes cuts to welfare, social services
and more…it also assumes voters will approve Brown's tax hike on
the November ballot.
If voters reject the tax, a series of automatic cuts would be
triggered.
Those cuts would allow public schools to eliminate up to three
weeks of classes for each of the next two years.
The budget builds a nearly one billion dollar reserve. That's
more than $100 million larger than the spending plan legislative
Democrats sent him earlier in the day.
That could suggest the extent of the Governor's line-item
vetoes. But Brown's office says that information won't be available
until Thursday morning.