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SB 2 · 2025-26, special session 1

Amends the 2024 state budget

Official subject Budget Act of 2024.

Became law Chapter 4, Statutes of 2025

Plain-language summary

Amends the Budget Act of 2024, which funds state government for the 2024-25 fiscal year. The bill makes changes to existing appropriations. It takes effect immediately as a budget bill.

How these summaries are written

Subject changed

This bill originally dealt with Department of Justice federal litigation funding; it was rewritten to cover changes to the 2024 state budget.

Official summary · Legislative Counsel's Digest

Describes the final version (Chaptered, Feb. 7, 2025).

Read the official summary (3 paragraphs)

The Budget Act of 2024 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2024–25 fiscal year.

This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2024 by making changes to existing appropriations, as provided.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.

Official title

An act to amend the Budget Act of 2024 (Chs. 22, 35, and 994, Stats. 2024), by amending Section 99.50 of, and by adding Section 5.26 to, that act, relating to the state budget, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, budget bill.

Veto message · Feb. 7, 2025

The Governor's message, verbatim.

To the Members of the California State Senate:

I am signing Senate Bill X1 2, which will bolster funding for legal services programs that are vital to safeguarding the civil rights of California's most vulnerable residents, including people with disabilities, youth who are homeless, victims of human trafficking and wage theft, people facing unlawful evictions, immigrants and more.

None of the funding in this bill is intended to be used for immigration-related legal services for noncitizens convicted of serious or violent felonies. To the extent further clarification is necessary, I encourage the Legislature to pass subsequent legislation providing that this funding is to be allocated consistent with the restrictions set forth in paragraph 3 of subdivision (b) of Section 13303 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

Sincerely,

Gavin Newsom

Timeline

  1. Jan. 8, 2025 Introduced
  2. Jan. 23, 2025 Passed Senate 28 yes, 8 no
  3. Feb. 3, 2025 Passed Assembly 58 yes, 17 no
  4. Feb. 4, 2025 Enrolled and sent to the Governor
  5. Feb. 7, 2025 Signed by the Governor
  6. Feb. 7, 2025 Chaptered (became law)
Full official history (20 actions)
  1. Jan. 8, 2025 Introduced: Introduced. Read first time. Referred to Com. on RLS.
  2. Jan. 9, 2025 From printer.
  3. Jan. 9, 2025 Referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
  4. Jan. 10, 2025 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
  5. Jan. 13, 2025 Set for hearing January 14.
  6. Jan. 14, 2025 January 14 hearing postponed by committee.
  7. Jan. 16, 2025 Set for hearing January 22.
  8. Jan. 22, 2025 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 31.) (January 22).
  9. Jan. 22, 2025 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  10. Jan. 23, 2025 Passed Senate: Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 37.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  11. Jan. 23, 2025 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  12. Jan. 27, 2025 Ordered to second reading.
  13. Jan. 27, 2025 (Ayes 59. Noes 15. Page 62.)
  14. Jan. 28, 2025 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  15. Feb. 3, 2025 Amendments by Assembly Member Castillo tabled on motion by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry. (Ayes 55. Noes 18. Page 80.)
  16. Feb. 3, 2025 Passed Assembly: Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 81.) Ordered to the Senate.
  17. Feb. 3, 2025 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  18. Feb. 4, 2025 Enrolled and sent to the Governor: Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
  19. Feb. 7, 2025 Signed by the Governor: Approved by the Governor.
  20. Feb. 7, 2025 Chaptered (became law): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 4, Statutes of 2025.