California would spend $2.7 billion on new endeavors to react to the flood in COVID-19 cases, including extra testing capacity and help to hospitals, under a budget proposal Gov. Gavin Newsom will ship off state legislators one week from now.
Newsom will likewise request that legislators help make new COVID debilitated compensation rules for Californians, displayed after the arrangement that terminated the previous fall, requiring businesses with at least 26 laborers to present to about fourteen days of supplemental paid wiped out leave for workers to really focus on themselves or a relative.
“Our proposed COVID-19 Emergency Response Package will uphold our testing capacity, speed up vaccination and sponsor endeavors, support cutting edge laborers and medical services frameworks and fight deception,” Newsom said in a composed assertion Saturday.
Advisors to Newsom said Saturday the lead representative will request that the Legislature make a fast move on approving the first $1.4 billion of the new pandemic reaction bundle when he sends his yearly state spending plan to the Legislature on Monday. The vast majority of the early subsidizing would go to extend testing programs, with the leftover part spent on infection reaction endeavors inside California prisons.