CONCORD — The trailer bill to the proposed two-year state budget emerged Thursday, a massive package that overhauls state licensing and aid to public school education while spending nearly a quarter ...

Last month, through the annual process known as the “May Revise,” California Governor Gavin Newsom released an update to the 2023-24 state budget proposal that he first introduced in January. The ...

A strong case can be made that it’s not the two-year operating budget, but its companion trailer bill that becomes the most important piece of legislation lawmakers take up every other year at the ...