California Budget Deal Would Expand Funding for Children’s Hospitals

The budget agreement announced June 22 between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders includes $115 million for children’s hospitals. The governor had included the spending in his May budget proposal. “In California, our children are not just our future—they are everything to the families that love them and the friends who play next to them,” Mr. Newsom said in a June 25 press release. “For the children suffering from the worst and most serious illnesses, we must support the hospitals that give them a fighting chance to live and thrive.” The agreement will allow the state’s Department of Health Care Services to provide funding to California hospitals treating children who are critically ill or fighting life-threatening diseases....