CALIFORNIA BRIEFING

By Evan Halper

July 30, 2009 12 AM PT

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has again extended the deadline for a bipartisan commission charged with overhauling the state’s tax code to complete its work and bring recommendations to lawmakers. The commission, which originally had intended to finish work in the spring, now has until at least September.

The governor also announced that he will call the Legislature into special session to consider the proposals of the Commission on the 21st Century Economy once they are complete.

-- Evan Halper

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Evan Halper

Evan Halper is a former staff writer who wrote about a broad range of policy issues out of Washington, D.C., with particular emphasis on how Washington regulates, agitates and very often miscalculates in its dealings with California. Before heading east, he was the Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Sacramento, where he spent a decade untangling California’s epic budget mess and political dysfunction.

CALIFORNIA BRIEFING

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