[1] The General Fund makes up 3/4th of the entire budget; it allocates monies to state operations and payments to localities.
One notable side effect of California's tax structure is that a substantial portion of the state's income comes from a small proportion of wealthy citizens.
[7] While the legislative bodies appeared to address the problem in 2008 with the three-month delayed passage of a budget they in fact only postponed the deficit to 2009 and due to the Great Recession and the 2007–2008 financial crisis the problem became urgent in November 2008.
To help alleviate this, Governor Jerry Brown introduced proposals to bring measures to voters, in order to pass tax increases.
[1] RANS are commonly used due to the delay between expenditure and tax collection while RAWS are only used in times of crisis.