SACRAMENTO Following through on a pledge made in his May budget proposal, Governor Jerry Brown has joined Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye in creating a 10-member committee charged with evaluating the state’s progress in complying with the landmark Trial Court Funding Act.
The panel, chaired by Justice Harry Hull Jr. of the Third District Court of Appeal and former Assemblyman Phillip Isenberg, has just six months to prepare a report analyzing what’s happened in the 15 years since lawmakers shifted primary court funding responsibility from counties to the state.
