Simple-Majority Budget Vote to Be Part of Dems' Reform Package

Democratic legislative leaders will announce today an effort to place before voters a package of government reforms whose centerpiece would allow budgets to be passed by a simple majority of each legislative house.
Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg will participate in a Capitol press conference today to discuss legislation to place two initiatives proposed by California Forward on the November ballot, sources said.