PROPOSITION
1D

PROTECTS CHILDREN’S SERVICES FUNDING.
HELPS BALANCE STATE BUDGET.

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PROTECTS CHILDREN’S SERVICES FUNDING. HELPS BALANCE STATE BUDGET.

• Provides more than $600 million to protect children’s programs in difficult economic times.
• Redirects existing tobacco tax money to protect health and human services for children, including services for at-risk families, services for children with disabilities, and services for foster children.
• Temporarily allows the redirection of existing money to fund health and human service programs for children 5 years old and under.
• Ensures counties retain funding for local priorities.
• Helps balance state budget.

Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

• State General Fund savings of up to $608 million in 2009–10 and $268 million annually from 2010–11 through 2013–14, from temporarily redirecting a portion of funds from the California Children and Families Program in place of state General Fund support of health and human services programs for children up to age five.
• Corresponding reductions in funding for early childhood development programs provided by the California Children and Families Program.

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Final votes cast by the legislature on AB 17 (Proposition 1D)