Gov. Newsom hasn't been his usual loquacious self since New Year's Day. One suspects he has been preparing for this coming Monday when the state constitution says he must unveil his budget proposal for fiscal year 2022-23. Technically, he could have unveiled the budget earlier but Monday is the absolute deadline.
If past history is any guide, he will have largely memorized the budget and will do the unveiling personally, and at length. (Prior governors were content to make summary remarks, show a few charts, and then turn their news conference over to their budget directors for more detail.)
Yours truly will present an analysis on this blog as soon as possible.
From the California constitution:ARTICLE IV, SEC. 12.
(a) Within the first 10 days of each calendar year, the Governor shall submit to the Legislature, with an explanatory message, a budget for the ensuing fiscal year containing itemized statements for recommended state expenditures and estimated state revenues. If recommended expenditures exceed estimated revenues, the Governor shall recommend the sources from which the additional revenues should be provided.
(b) The Governor and the Governor-elect may require a state agency, officer or employee to furnish whatever information is deemed necessary to prepare the budget.
(c) (1) The budget shall be accompanied by a budget bill itemizing recommended expenditures.
(2) The budget bill shall be introduced immediately in each house by the persons chairing the committees that consider the budget.
(3) The Legislature shall pass the budget bill by midnight on June 15 of each year.
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