Reductions

- Nearly 1,150 full-time equivalent positions are eliminated from the state payroll, a $46.5 million savings. Exempted from these cuts are state institutional programs such as mental health hospitals, prisons, veterans homes and facilities for the developmentally disabled.

- Class-size improvement payments to public school districts will increase from $211.67 per student in the next school year to $254 in the 2004-05 school year. Under Initiative 728, which lawmakers are overturning, that payment would have increased to $450 per student in 2004-05, a $236.9 million savings.

- Operating funds for all public higher education institutions are reduced by $131 million. Campus governing boards are given the authority to increase tuition up to 7 percent a year, each of the next two school years, for resident undergraduate students.

- Elimination of 25,000 of the 125,000 slots from the Basic Health Plan for uninsured state residents, a $158.8 million savings. No current enrollees will be removed, but new enrollments will be limited to women who temporarily left the program because of a Medicaid-covered pregnancy; children not eligible for Medicaid due to their immigration status; enrollees who become current after being removed due to late payments; and new children of existing enrollees.

- Elimination of the Medically Indigent program, which has provided partial compensation to hospitals and physicians for emergency care provided to low-income uninsured people, a $105 million savings.

- Adult dental benefits for low-income people are reduced by about 25 percent, a $22.7 million savings.

- Changes to state drug-sentencing laws and early release programs, a $24.9 million savings.

- Reduced funding to the State Library, a $2.6 million savings.

- Reduced state agency spending on travel, equipment, and management and organizational services by about 15 percent, a $20 million savings. Additionally, state agencies and institutions not headed by a statewide elected official must eliminate their legislative liaisons, for a savings of $3.2 million.

Pay and benefits

- State workers receive no cost-of-living salary increases in 2003 or 2004. The average state worker's share of their insurance coverage costs will climb from 14 to 16.3 percent, and the cost of co- payments for office visits will rise from $10 to $15.

- Salary increases for K-12 employees by Initiative 732 are suspended for the next two years, for a savings of $190.6 million. Salary increases are provided for teachers in the first seven years of service, to guarantee a base salary of $30,023 a year for beginning teachers by 2004-05, at a total cost of $29.2 million.

- Wages for home care workers contracted by the Department of Social and Health Services and through private agencies will be increased by 75 cents an hour -- $1.32 less than what was bargained between the home care workers union and the state.