End of Funding for State Legislative Analyst’s Office Sought by Democrats
Speaker Willie Brown and other Democratic Assembly leaders want to stop funding the legislative analyst’s office after June 30, leaving the fate of the independent state budget monitoring agency in serious question.
“It’s a decision on the part of the leadership that they could not afford to keep (the analyst’s office) . . . and afford to do the other things the Legislature has to do,” said Bob Connelly, chief administrative officer of the Assembly Rules Committee.
The small agency, headed by Legislative Analyst Elizabeth Hill, is relied on by legislators and others for a nonpartisan evaluation of the state budget. It also analyzes the state costs of all legislation and writes the analyses of ballot measures that appear in voter ballot pamphlets.
Cliff Berg, executive officer of the Senate Rules Committee, said the Senate wants the office to survive.
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