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Thanks for keeping us flagged, Ernest.

I think I smell a whiff of "emergency powers" in the air. From the California Constitution, Article IV, Section 12 (c):

Until the budget bill has been enacted, the Legislature shall not send to the Governor for consideration any bill appropriating funds for expenditure during the fiscal year for which the budget bill is to be enacted, except emergency bills recommended by the Governor or appropriations for the salaries and expenses of the Legislature.

[snopercod]

Public schools seem to be exempt from the above, which seems to contradict the title of the article. From the same source:

Appropriations from the General Fund of the State, except appropriations for the public schools, are void unless passed in each house by rollcall vote entered in the journal, two thirds of the membership concurring.