 so the bill's author is an assemblyman out of northern california joe patterson and he said this bill this was a bipartisan bill with no opposition uh... clearly he says the legislature agreed on the need to rein in newsom's wasteful spending on ineffective homelessness programs he said i'm glad we're able to get some safeguards written into budget but the state can't keep cutting corners on accountability when dishing out billions of taxpayers dollars and seeing the problem get worse i think he's absolutely correct