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Senate advances SB 100 and 20 budget "trailer" vehicles after contentious debate over process
Summary
The California State Senate on March 22 advanced SB 100 — a vehicle to carry Budget Act implementing language — and moved a set of companion bills used for the 2025–26 budget. The 28-10 vote exposed sharp divisions over the trailer-bill process and transparency of budget negotiations.
The California State Senate voted 28-10 on March 22 to advance SB 100, a procedural vehicle described on the floor as part of the Budget Act of 2025, and to apply that roll call to a range of companion trailer bills (listed on the record as SB 101 through SB 219). The vote and ensuing debate focused not on the substance of specific budget provisions but on whether the so‑called trailer‑bill process reduces public oversight of major policy changes.
Senator Wiener, the bill's floor author, said the step was a routine procedural action to allow the Senate and Assembly to assemble final implementing language and to keep the timeline that produces a June 15 budget. "This is extremely normal. This happens — this is how the budget process works every year," Wiener said, adding that language for most trailer bills had been posted on the Department of Finance website.
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