Budget "clean up" bills up this week
AB/SBs 104 and 138, in addition to SB 119, on tap prior to legislative summer recess
Amendments to two new budget-related bills—AB 104/SB 104 and AB 138/SB 138—were published this morning, July 14, 2025, with votes expected on Thursday, July 17, prior to the California Legislature’s summer recess.
AB/SB 104 is a “budget bill jr.” (amendment to the 2025-26 budget act) that consists primarily of technical changes to the 2025-26 budget as enacted in SB 101 and AB 102.
AB/SB 138 is a “trailer bill” (statutory changes to implement the 2025-26 budget act) that ratifies state employee bargaining units’ memoranda of understanding (MOUs) agreed upon after the June 30 deadline in Section 11 of SB 139 (which the Governor signed on June 30) and incorporates elements of those and earlier MOUs into statutes.
In addition, SB 119, a second human services trailer bill for 2025-26 (published on June 27), passed the Assembly on July 7. Concurrence in amendments to SB 119 is pending in the Senate this week.
Additional budget-related action focused on unresolved matters in the natural resources budget, as well as initial state responses to the new federal Republicans’ tax and budget law, is expected in the final weeks of this year’s legislative session in August and September. It will take some time for the full ramifications of the Republicans’ new federal law to become clear, and budget and policy responses to it can be expected over the next few years.