Fraud Reporting, Supplemental Fund Bill Costs 'Inconsistent' With Gov's Fiscal Plan

A handful of bills, including two anti-fraud measures, remain on hold over concerns about millions of dollars in costs to state agencies as California lawmakers prepare to adjourn the 2018 session at the end of the month. Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration said the budget he signed in June would leave the state with a $9 billion surplus for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019. But his Department of Finance says it is opposed to measures such as one that would require the Department of Insurance to share information about workers’ compensation fraud, or another requiring the Depar...