Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed state budget may have mistakenly excluded some $22 billion from a formula to limit spending that was first imposed by voters in 1979, according to a new study by the Legislature’s independent analysts.
The issue, arising from complex accounting of spending by local schools and state government, could leave lawmakers facing the tightest legal restrictions on state spending in more than a quarter-century when they craft a budget later this year.
“We’re a lot closer than we think we are” to hitting the legal limit, said Ryan Miller, one of the analysts who drafted the report.
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