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Read. Follow. Verify.California ACA 20 adjusts state budget reserve transfers and expands emergency spending powers
Record date · June 25, 2026
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What This Bill Would Do
This measure modifies how California transfers revenue into the Budget Stabilization Account and the Public School System Stabilization Account, while increasing the maximum allowable balance for the state's rainy-day fund. It also allows the Governor to declare a budget emergency through revised budget proposals and excludes certain reserve transfers from the state's constitutional appropriations limit.
The measure changes the rules for how the state saves and spends surplus tax revenue, specifically impacting the availability of funds for , unemployment insurance loan repayments, and school district support through 2040.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
School Districts
The measure modifies the funding mechanisms for the Public School System Stabilization Account, which supports school districts.
California State Government
The state's constitutional appropriations limit and budget reserve transfer requirements are altered by this measure.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently filed. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Committee.
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Expansion of Reserve Flexibility
The measure creates a new reserve account (Projected Surplus Temporary Holding Account) and excludes it from the constitutional spending limit, signaling a shift toward increasing the state's capacity to hold surplus funds outside of standard appropriation caps.
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