[courtesy of California Progress Report]

By Frank D. Russo

The California Budget Project has created a nifty 14 page table that provides a good overview of the Schwarzenegger Administration’s proposed budget, the Senate passed budget, and the Assembly passed budget together with links to additional information.

In columns, side by side, there are short paragraph or sentence descriptions of areas to be reconciled of these three different versions as the legislature’s conference committee on the budget works its way through them. The conference committee began its work Friday, following passage of different versions of the state budget by the two different houses after more than 100 hearings of budget subcommittees and committees starting early this year.

You can watch the Conference Committee on the California Channel for live results and view past meetings through the archives of the California Channel. Of note, there also is a press conference by Assembly and Senate Democrats on the budget shortly before the Conference Committee began its work.

[courtesy of California Progress Report]

• Federal dollars for SCHIP will run out Nov 16 without Congressional action
• Board will reconsider emergency regulations on November 5

By Anthony Wright
Executive Director of Health Access California

The Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board (MRMIB), which oversees the Healthy Families program--California's version of the State Child Health Insurance Program--today decided it would wait until at least November 5 to decide whether it should adopt emergency regulations to pave the way for creating wait-lists and disenrolling children from the program.

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