California's assembly budget chair said the budget process had been "a painful and at times, agonizing, process."

The plan would freeze Medi-Cal enrollment for adults without legal status and fund voter-approved Proposition 36.

California lawmakers will vote Friday on a budget proposal to freeze enrollment in a state-funded health care program for immigrants without legal status to help close a $12 billion deficit. Their plan is a scaled-back version of a proposal Democratic Gov.