Highlights of budget changes

California lawmakers approved midyear budget changes to address roughly $4 billion of the state’s estimated $20-billion deficit. Among them: $1.1 billion Divert gas taxes from mass transit to reduce deficit. $811 million Cut prison healthcare budget. $580 million Cut 5% of state payroll and related costs. $60 million Cut 3% of funds for centers for the developmentally disabled. $182 million Commute sentences of illegal immigrant inmates and turn them over to the federal government. $230 million Suspend requirements and costs for some local programs. Source: California Legislature