FOR THE RECORD - May 25, 2009
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California budget: In Section A of the early Sunday edition, an article that outlined ways to improve California’s fiscal efficiency said the rule requiring state budgets to be passed by a two-thirds vote of the Legislature was established in 1978. The rule was added to the California Constitution by voters in 1933.
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