SACRAMENTO — An intense lobbying campaign by Hastings College of the Law alumni paid off Friday when a legislative budget committee restored most of the state funding that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed to eliminate from the school.
The governor wanted to cut almost all of Hastings’ $10.3 million allocation, a reduction he said was necessary to help close the state’s $22 billion deficit. But lawmakers scaled back the cut to $1 million, saying a 10 percent reduction was more in line with funding hits that University of California and California State University are taking.
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